You're missing the point.

Anything YOU or anyone else says helps them. Period.

You may not be fooled, but someone else on Mingle might be. And it may be because of something YOU said.

You can stay in denial about it if you want, but I'm telling the reality of it.

Okay.

They can glean info whether they deactivate or not. There are probably regular posters doing the same thing.

So to eliminate all that really scary stuff, the forums would have to be dissolved.

That's ridiculous. Your logic is based on a false premise.

What I'm trying to figure out is why you're getting so defensive about it?

I wasn't singling anybody out, but making a general statement because many people on Mingle don't know what I do about scammers. I try to help people on the matter in one of the few ways that I'm actually allowed to within the forum rules, and somehow someone has to get all upset over it? Makes me question why.

Don't shatter the elderly people's dreams.

You may get to be an elderly people too...
Someday.

I didn’t realize this, guess I’m a dumbass. Someone actually used info that I posted in a thread to have something in common with me. It took me a couple of days to click in my head.

I don’t think we are helping the scammers. I do thinkmanyofthese so-called young people are really scammersloking for amark. Some will ask for money. Some want a quick way into a country. And yes some think we are sex goddesses.

Iris only by talking about it that we have the power to stop them. Crime grows the fastest when people don’t report it or turns blind eye to it.

Looks more like a trolling expedition,
than a phishing trip.

The OP didn't activate right away. He was still here while others were replying.

Well I just had an exchange with one of them. It seems no matter what you say they have an agenda- get the email address and get her offsite.

He admitted he had not read the profile before asking what I was looking for. Then read it it ignored it all, kept calling me babe and was determined not to answer any questions.

I wonder if these guys have a script. They all have very similar questions and responses, and rarely answer direct questions.

Just got another friend request:

ME: Why do you want to be friends with me?
HIM: Yes
ME: Do you Read English?
HIM: ____________ (no answer) I don’t think it is in the script

I seem to get a lot of scammers from Canada I asked one of the if they spoke French
( I asked him in French - that got rid of him quick - of course the joke woud have been on me if he had
answered me in French seeing I don't speak it.

But do they know how to wear shirts?

I dunno..
Maybe I am more observant than most, or perhaps it is my hyper-awareness..(think Meerkats), or my sense of logic is more prevalent.
But, if *I* got a message from a regula, normal person, I'd be totally amazed, as all i get *are* from scammers..with their canned, trite phrases we all know..

I don't think I'd continue the converation with someone *I* percieved to be a scammer...being too fare away, not having read my profile..just trotting out vague stuff.
I remember most things I post in the forums,and I believe I;d pick up on that.

Not insulting *you* MsLeeHM...not at all.

But if some clown from "Atlanta, TX" messages me..I am not even dignifying that crap with a reply..

Plus..I'm not interested in someone several hundred miles away.

Yes, they do...because it's *always* the same canned, trite crap..

Here's a fun thing I do..
I save their phone numbers...and when i am feeling especially salty..I'll give one scammer another scammers number..
I figure let them talk to each other...

I've had a couple "claim" to be German, or were born and raised in Ireland/ Wales/ Scotland...
I message them back in German, or Gaelic...they ask "what's that?"
When i tell them it's their native language...which they *claimed* to know...they disappear....

Mine either !

I like a Mature man and that USUALLY comes with age. Like middle age at least 50 +

I would love to tell you guys everything I know, but I'm not allowed to in the forums.

I've noticed that many people on Mingle have a number of misconceptions about scammers and spammers. I would love to rectify those false ideas.

How do I know what I know? I was stalked by one for 18 months. So I began playing the game, learning from the scammers themselves. I also befriended one of the spammers, having many many conversations with her.

So what I know isn't conjecture or speculation. It comes from the source itself.

There are some things I know too but can't share openly because it would only give them more ideas.

maybe men are like women and can't handle the truth......no...thats not it!
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