LongHair
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Well for the second time this year it seems I am being targetted by yet another What's App scammer.
For those of you who are not aware of this scam, it starts by recieving a random WhatsApp message from some Chinese girl, who pretends to be messaging either an Aussie friend or business aquaintance.
They will be extremely apologetic, however will be extremely friendly and keep messaging you back and engaging in conversation. They will generally own their own business of some kind. Over some period of time (this can be days/weeks) they will try and build a friendship and a level of trust. They will be keen send you respectful photos of themself (in reality probably photo's stolen from some unsuspecting girls face book or website) and of course they are very attractive.
Early during the conversation they will casually mention they invest (either for a hobby or as an alternative means of supporting their business which has been affect by the pandemic) they will generally have an uncle or family friend who is an investment advisor. They will not push to this point too early in the conversation about their investment activities.
As I mentioned they are keen to build trust, with the end goal of claiming now we are friends I can help you make money, generally investing in shares or the like (generally the scam is based around buying and selling gold) via some online trading platform. Over a period of time they will begin to describe things that they do, like donate to charities/orphanges, purchase expensive items for family, trying to express that they have clearly have a lot of personal wealth.
They will encourage you to download this platform (normally metatrader5 or the like) and get you to open a dummy account. They will commence coaching you on buying and selling and of course if you follow their advice your account will grow. They work hard and are willing to commit a considerable amount of time in building up to eventually trying to convince you to open a "live trading account" with a sum or money. The first time I experienced this scam, they were very patient and all of the above occurred over a period of two weeks to a month.
Before anyone asks, no I did not get sucked in however they were very good and very convincing.
I have been contacted again today and as I type this I am swapping messages with the new con artist, just for my own morbid sense of fun, I wonder how long I can string them along and how much I can frustrate them along the way.
For those of you who are not aware of this scam, it starts by recieving a random WhatsApp message from some Chinese girl, who pretends to be messaging either an Aussie friend or business aquaintance.
They will be extremely apologetic, however will be extremely friendly and keep messaging you back and engaging in conversation. They will generally own their own business of some kind. Over some period of time (this can be days/weeks) they will try and build a friendship and a level of trust. They will be keen send you respectful photos of themself (in reality probably photo's stolen from some unsuspecting girls face book or website) and of course they are very attractive.
Early during the conversation they will casually mention they invest (either for a hobby or as an alternative means of supporting their business which has been affect by the pandemic) they will generally have an uncle or family friend who is an investment advisor. They will not push to this point too early in the conversation about their investment activities.
As I mentioned they are keen to build trust, with the end goal of claiming now we are friends I can help you make money, generally investing in shares or the like (generally the scam is based around buying and selling gold) via some online trading platform. Over a period of time they will begin to describe things that they do, like donate to charities/orphanges, purchase expensive items for family, trying to express that they have clearly have a lot of personal wealth.
They will encourage you to download this platform (normally metatrader5 or the like) and get you to open a dummy account. They will commence coaching you on buying and selling and of course if you follow their advice your account will grow. They work hard and are willing to commit a considerable amount of time in building up to eventually trying to convince you to open a "live trading account" with a sum or money. The first time I experienced this scam, they were very patient and all of the above occurred over a period of two weeks to a month.
Before anyone asks, no I did not get sucked in however they were very good and very convincing.
I have been contacted again today and as I type this I am swapping messages with the new con artist, just for my own morbid sense of fun, I wonder how long I can string them along and how much I can frustrate them along the way.
The Frenchman 
