Bob: The "conversation" you had was probably with a machine, which is
why the it felt odd. Said machine didn't have any real interactive
ability, it just generated random conversation-starter phrases. Each
time you pressed Enter, it would say another seemingly realistic thing
to keep you interested. The giveaway is that it was all kinda non
sequitor, nothing related to what you said. Eventually it would have
asked you for your email, or some other identifying information. They
you would have been spammed unmercifully with everything from toenail
fungus remedies to male enhancement to porn.
I experienced a variation on this theme. A spammer hijacked a high
school friend's Facebook account, and then did the same thing you
experienced. In this case the fake Mary wanted me to go to her supposed
Web site, which was a malware carrier. I immediately told (the real)
Mary about it, and then got stuck helping to advise several
non-technical high school classmates who'd fallen for it on how clean
their computers and reset their FB passwords.
Fun times in the Lawless Wild West.
--Peter
> I discussed it with Joan, and she suggested I accept the request,
‘cause I
> could always undo it later.
>
> So I did, and lo and behold, within a few hours I was reading some of
the
> comments on my latest picture of Beloved Granddaughter, and this
woman popped
> up in message mode, or chat mode, or whatever. It was a rather stiff
> conversation. She wanted to know where I was from. I told her NC, and
that I
> lived in New England. I asked how she had come across me. She didn’t
answer,
> but asked me my age. I told her I was 65 and more or less retired.
She said she
> lived in West Palm Beach. I responded that it was nice to meet her,
but I had
> to get off and get some work done.
>
> Am I missing some scam out there where nubile young ladies, or people
posing as
> nubile young ladies befriend men by the dozens in hopes of reeling a
few in,
> and then run some kind of game on them? I am not so stuck on myself
that I
> fancy myself a tasty morsel for young ladies in their twenties. My
ego would
> like to go that far, but it just won’t.
>
> Any of this sound familiar to anyone?
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified but Confused Neanderthal
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