A woman approached me via Instagram sending me a message. I replied politely and asked her why in particular she chose to contact me; a question to which she declined to respond. we continued chatting and she posed a lot of questions about my life whilst telling me relatively little about hers and this continued for several days.
After four days, she declared that she loved me and believed I was her soul mate. After six days she was sending me pictures of her in her underwear whilst continuing to proclaim her undying love for her “soul mate”. Finally, after eight days she started asking for money!
Now whilst it is pleasant and mildly amusing to have somebody declaring their undying love for you on a daily basis, my red line was always “the moment she starts asking for money she can eff-off” and so the moment I received that request I blanked her.
90% of me just wrote her off as a con-woman hello specialising in ripping off elderly geezer's but the 10% left, wondered if she was suffering from some sort of mental illness; a psychosis of some sort or, more probably a manic bipolar episode.
The 10% of me that was concerned was relieved to see that she suddenly popped up as one of my followers on Instagram under a totally different alias but using a profile photo that was absolutely obviously my “soul mate” using a different name.
@trinsec
Yes I get approached out of the blue by a lot of attractive women on Instagram but this one was the first to actually manage to get me to bother to respond. However, I think she needs to learn that going from zero to "I love you and you are my soulmate" in 4 days casual conversation might be just a little too brisk a pace and after only 8 days asking for money is definitely a no-no!
I did notice that she was following over 5500 people although relatively few were following here and that the majority of the people she was following were elderly males!
@trinsec
I fear it's something that is inescapable on social media. I get numerous similar approaches on Twitter! However, not so far on Mastodon, I'm happy to say!
@Paulos_the_fog That's because on the Fediverse those people usually get reported, and then the admin of the instances those accounts are on usually would take action. And if there's an instance which doesn't care, they usually would get blocked by other instances.
Just as a generalization, which is probably 80% correct.
@Paulos_the_fog Ahh, instagram. My buddy is on there too and he gets messages like this too. It's just all a scam. :)