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[pfarber]

Well, this was some fun I had Sunday, 3 days ago. Yes, this all happened in 1 day. No, I didn't show my pee pee or send money... I'm not as dumb as you gits.

blah blah I'm handsome and sexy standard shit that set off all the alarms. Wants to skype, sure. VPN up and use throw away accounts.

I didn't screen cap the account page because most of this was done on my cell phone.

But Francisca Addison wants my dong.

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Doesn't look like a cam girl AT ALL. So I tell Franny 'send me a photo, with your LEFT hand up, and THREE fingers pointing up. LOL whut? I add 'I want to make sure you're real'. Usually this stops them cold, but I get this:

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CLOSE, but no cigar. The explanation was she had to go out to the car so her uncle wouldn't see her take a photo. Except its dark out (no light in windows) and I asked for and got this photo at like 1pm. Gotta be on your game, some scammers are smarter than others. BUT its the wrong had, and the wrong fingers. So I search for the photo and it comes up (I already know this is fake as shit from searching the profile photo).

She really loves me (after 45 minutes) and want to visit. WOW a hot chick wants to see me and have sex with me?!?! YES PLEASE.

THEN THE SCAM STARTS - she needs money for a plane ticket. Chinese virus put her out of work. Boo fucking hoo. Still, let see what happens next.....

[pfarber]

Here's some Secret Service level shit... except done by a 1st grader.

I tell Franny I need a passport to book a ticket (NO, YOU GITS, I DIDN'T BOOK A TICKET).

She sends me one. HOLLY SHIT, We got us an A-Lister!!!!!!

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Top tier scammer going on. I'm impressed. But as I look at this fake ass shit passport here's the errors:

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Note Ghosting and random marks. This is from erasing the REAL NAME so they could enter the fake one. My guess is they needed to save the background design and they just couldn't edit it cleanly. Editing the old name would have taken an hour or two.

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Notice the fold/cut. No passport has this level of print on it. If the bio page is damaged/altered, the passport is generally considered invalid.

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This is the biggest tell, and the sloppiest part. I'm insulted that they tried to pass this off. Obvious edit. You can clearly see the old print in the bottom right and shitty erasing lines. Come on, scammers.

So after about 1 hour of 'yes baby, i did email you the ticket information' I just fessed up, call them a scammer and got on with my day.

It was pretty interesting as this was the most elaborate scammer to date. I mean altered a passport. Wow, I'm honored.

Oh, and the biggest tell was that I asked they 'she' agreed to video chat. So I put on my Covid mask and called. Of course her phone's microphone didn't work (lol sure) so she couldn't talk. Well, she couldn't talk becuase the scammer simply played a video of the real woman (her stage name is actually Karen Dreams) from a recorded web cam session. In the bottom right you could see where they tried to erase the web site's name (ffmpeg and other apps can 'blur' and alter the color of a portion of a video, quite easy to do). So yeah, the scammer was a step above.

Sorry for all the stupid gits that send scammer money. If you think with your BIG HEAD and not the LITTLE HEAD shit is easy to spot.