I acciedently... added a scam artist to my Facebook friends list.

Whackeygrunt · 11 Dec 2010 at 02:07

At least I now think it's a scam artist. It's one of those profiles of a lass who only has three friends (myself included) and is way too attractive to actually be single and have so few FB freinds lol.

She (probs a he) has their location set to the same town I live in and likes a lot of video games (suspicious). Also they apparently go to the same uni as me, which is wyhy I added them as I wasn't really thinkign and just saw a hot profile pic and the same Uni name so just clicked accept. Now they've posted on my wall saying "Hey yo! you sexy mofu i like your info section

xxx"

She sounds American in they way she's communicating. Nobody round my town would speak like that. I'm now 90% sure it's a scam artist (who has now seen my info such as birthday and friends) but it could also be a legit random person who has added me on a whim.

Has anyone else added a suspicious person before by mistake or ortherwise? What happened? What are the implications?

Cheers, also, lol I'm a ***

doofer · 11 Dec 2010 at 02:08

LolFaceBook!

Whackeygrunt · 11 Dec 2010 at 02:11

Indeed, bit it's mainstream enough to talk about with people. For better or for worse....

PapaLazaru · 11 Dec 2010 at 02:13

Profile link?

Whackeygrunt · 11 Dec 2010 at 02:14

If allowed: http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100001820938125

Castiel · 11 Dec 2010 at 02:14

doofer said:
LolFaceBook!

PapaLazaru · 11 Dec 2010 at 02:18

http://www.tineye.com/search/da95384178a264f9125990b6e7390138c98cd390/

Scam.

Crowort · 11 Dec 2010 at 02:24

S(he) will most likely sending you join xyz cam site too watch me messages next. I've done it a few times before when I was adding people for FB games and didn't notice that the hot picture wasn't just some guy that likes a hot picture on his profile.

Whackeygrunt · 11 Dec 2010 at 02:25

Hehe, thought so. Removed and reported now. But they may have gleamed such valuable info from me such as my B'day and the fact that I like metal music lol

2StepSteve · 11 Dec 2010 at 02:26

twist3d0n3 · 11 Dec 2010 at 03:34

i'd hit it (multiple times)

Totality · 11 Dec 2010 at 04:17

And we have a winner for most pointless weekend thread! \o/

I came in and expected stories of how someone had one upped a scammer. Thread failed to deliver.

Amp34 · 11 Dec 2010 at 04:26

PapaLazaru said:
http://www.tineye.com/search/da95384178a264f9125990b6e7390138c98cd390/

Scam.

Just check where the photos are based... my Facebook profile picture could quite easily come up with a similar set of results.

(Deviant art, medium size and then a couple of forums around avatar size.)

Not that it's probably not a scam account though.

SPARC · 11 Dec 2010 at 04:51

Girl in the picture looks suspiciously young ... or is that just me ?

anyway, lolfacebook

redrooster303 · 11 Dec 2010 at 05:54

facebook is full of scammers thats why i stopped using it and since then my computer has stopped getting viruses etc.

LOAM · 11 Dec 2010 at 06:16

Is that what's deemed hot these days? Looks like a dwarf * to me

* of the lord of the rings variety.

^TANK^ · 11 Dec 2010 at 06:32

LOAM said:
Is that what's deemed hot these days? Looks like a dwarf * to me

* of the lord of the rings variety.

Does she have one ring to rule them all though, that is the question?

Kristoph · 11 Dec 2010 at 07:15

Probably one of your friends trying to pull a prank on you.

Zefan · 11 Dec 2010 at 07:45

A quick reinstall of facebook should .... you know what, I can't be bothered with it today.

FatBoyObese · 11 Dec 2010 at 07:48

Totality said:
And we have a winner for most pointless weekend thread! \o/

Oh the weekend is waaaay to young to make bold statements like that