I hate it when people call or chat with me on Skype randomly. I know some people use this opportunity to share stories of their native lands and to brush up on their English, but I use it as opportunity to share pictures of the Lemon Party (don’t search for it. Trust me.) This, however, is a wonderful new method of getting attention by spamming thousands of accounts with fake spyware links and then offering a crazy fake spyware-checking page that ultimately encourages you to pay $16 to buy a full version of some software that is probably free. Very classy!
Interestingly, this just started happening at the end of December. I did a quick whois on the domain and found that it’s protected by WhoIsProof, a masking service. This kind of stuff really burns my beans, to coin a phrase.
Set you privacy setting to the highest and this won’t happen again the only thing you will receive is people wanting to share there contact details with you and this you can’t stop.
I had someone from Ghana clamming be be a female
call me randomly on SKYPE. I thought it might be fun to chat for a bit and I don’t like to be rude. At first it was just questions from her about where I live what I do. Then how many children do I have ect.
Then she began telling how her Mum & Dad were killed and she lives with her Grandmum. Then would I be willing to give her money for school, $50 a month. She asked if I could do this on Monday, ( I had foolishly given my e-mail address ) so I politely said I have something to do and I would wait for her to e-mail me. She then asked if she could call me “Dad”? So needless to say I blocked her/ him from my SKYPE and e-mail. So beware, if it sounds like
something “Phishy” it most likely is.
Same thing exactly – they even don’t try to make story more interesting:
[12:11:58] dora.antwi5 says: Hello;
How are You Doing Today and Everything in General ?
Are you There ?
Can we chat ?
Am Online
My email adress is dora.sheffler@yahoo.com
[12:14:07] Dmitry says: sure :), why not.
[12:14:20] dora.antwi5 says: okay
[12:14:22] dora.antwi5 says: thankx
[12:14:30] dora.antwi5 says: How are you doing today ?
[12:15:04] Dmitry says: Fine :)
[12:15:18] dora.antwi5 says: okay thats nice of you
[12:15:35] Dmitry says: Where are you from?
[12:15:39] dora.antwi5 says: By the way am Dora Antwi a Female from ghana in the western part of africa and what about you ?
[12:16:56] Dmitry says: ….
[12:17:12] dora.antwi5 says: Ohhhh thats a shame
[12:17:33] dora.antwi5 says: ghana is a very nice country and i will be happy to see u in oneday
[12:17:44] dora.antwi5 says: so what work do you do for your living ?
[12:18:34] Dmitry says: ….
[12:18:48] dora.antwi5 says: okay thats nice meeting you
[12:18:52] dora.antwi5 says: Are you married with kidds
[12:19:07] dora.antwi5 says: i was a student of Gospel Avenue High school
[12:19:50] Dmitry says: ….
[12:19:50] dora.antwi5 says: Can you add me to your contact list so that you can see a picture of me in my profile ?
[12:20:11] dora.antwi5 says: okay am also single and am not having any kidds
[12:20:22] dora.antwi5 says: please can we make friends ?
[12:20:36] Dmitry says: Sure :)
[12:20:41] dora.antwi5 says: thank you
[12:20:47] dora.antwi5 says: Ca\n you give me your email adress ?
[12:20:59] dora.antwi5 says: Mine is dora.sheffler@yahoo.com
[12:21:11] Dmitry says: ….
[12:21:34] dora.antwi5 says: okay good
[12:21:43] dora.antwi5 says: so please how is the weather over there
[12:21:53] dora.antwi5 says: and i hope that u can see my picture on my profile ?
[12:22:47] Dmitry says: ….
[12:22:59] dora.antwi5 says: thats cool
[12:23:24] dora.antwi5 says: Am a Girl without parents am living with my old weak grandmum and my younger brother
[12:23:33] dora.antwi5 says: and do u live with ur parents
[12:23:41] dora.antwi5 says: i lost my parents ;(
[12:24:26] Dmitry says: ….
[12:24:39] dora.antwi5 says: okay thats nice
[12:24:58] dora.antwi5 says: would you be happy if i tell you about myself ?
[12:25:22] Dmitry says: Sure, always :)….
[12:25:28] dora.antwi5 says: okay
[12:25:42] dora.antwi5 says: I’m Dora .A girl of 24yrs old, and I was a student of Gospel Avenue High School.I was very serious with my education but no Helper soo things are hard for me Down here, So i decided to stop schooling becaues of my ageing grandmum who cannot provide my bills any longer.I have decided to do something for a living but the economy is too poor that i cannot even get a job to do because i lack certificate
[12:27:52] dora.antwi5 says: hello are you there
[12:27:56] Dmitry says: yep
[12:28:10] Dmitry says: So what are you doing now?
[12:28:20] dora.antwi5 says: okay i hope that i have to email you a picture and tell you more of myself
[12:28:41] Dmitry says: ok
[12:28:49] dora.antwi5 says: (handshake)
[12:29:09] dora.antwi5 says: but i will be happy if u could just help me to continue my schooling
[12:29:49] Dmitry says: how?
[12:30:15] dora.antwi5 says: by just helping me to pay for my school fees
[12:30:55] Dmitry says: well i don’t know you and basically have no way even to check if anything you said is true…
[12:31:35] dora.antwi5 says: okay can i give you my schools headmasters email adress so that you can email him
[12:32:06] Dmitry says: do the school has website?
[12:32:23] Dora Antwi says: yes
[12:33:18] Dora Antwi says: can i give you the headmasters email
[12:33:34] Dmitry says: oki and the website so i can look at it :)
[12:35:06] Dora Antwi says: http://www.rgnursingtrainingcollege.5u.com
[12:35:14] Dora Antwi says: thats the web of the school
[12:35:51] Dora Antwi says: u are going to find the email adress of the school and you need to write them if u really like to help me
[12:36:14] Dmitry says: ok i will check
[12:36:19] Dora Antwi says: okay
[12:36:42] Dora Antwi says: have u found that
[12:37:57] Dora Antwi says: ?