Yesterday I started getting a flood of friend requests on Facebook. Out of curiosity at who these people were I decided to accept these requests and maybe chat with some of these people. Then the dam burst and at the end of the day I had over 1000 friend requests, most of them coming from African countries.
I briefly chatted with one person who had sent me a message. He was posing as a woman from Los Angeles, currently living in Indiana. He did not have a good command of the English language and kept asking me personal questions. I told him a few things about myself, and when I suggested that he might be a young African lad he got all religious on me and said god would punish him if he ever did such a thing. Then he said he was falling in love with me. Typical scammer bullshit. He couldn’t even spell his own fake name right on his profile.
I know things are rough for people in the Third World, but seriously, there are so many criminals pulling this shit that it is unbelievable. I deleted my first Facebook account several years ago and only made a new profile as a means to promote my blog, but man, it is turning into a huge waste of time. Facebook is a horrible company that uses people’s personal information to make money. I have so many fake friends now trying to message me that if one of my two actual friends there ever tried to send me a message it would be lost in the spam. It really doesn’t matter because I don’t use Facebook to communicate with my friends.
I went to bed early last night and am up very early this morning. My weight has held fairly steady over the last couple weeks at 207 pounds, though I need to cut my food intake some more to start dropping some pounds. I am still 40 pounds overweight. I approved some more of these fake friends on Facebook this morning and deleted a lot of the requests, but man, this is going to take forever. Perhaps I should publish a guide on how to pull off a romance scam and maybe my fake friends can learn enough English to make believable profiles. Perhaps I should scam the scammers myself and dox them to the authorities. Perhaps I should ignore the dregs of humanity who think I am some kind of legit way to make some scammer gold. I look for friends and find endless enemies. What a crock of shit the world has become.