How to spot a scammer on here
This place is rife with scammers, so I've decided to write this guide on how to spot them. That way you don't waste your time talking to some dude pretending to be a woman.
1. Check basic profile information. Several red flags profile wise are: A very new profile, especially if it has a bunch of friends, this means they are spam adding people. Another red flag is no/hidden favorites. Not a good indicator but I've found a correlation between the lack of favorites and the likelihood of being a fake. A very good metric to finding if they are a scammer is to look at their comment count, low comments or extremely high comments is a red flag. Another thing regarding information, a suspicious link in their website URL. This is extremely obvious. And finally if they use a generic location such as Earth or United States. When they DM you they'll ask where you're from and then respond with "I'm also from there too", but this isn't always accurate.
2. Check their pictures/verification picture. It doesn't hurt to reverse image search someone who you think is a fake. Take this for example. Scammer's verification picture https://gyazo.com/a4b8207fa8e085a2081d9abd4df6552c vs actual picture https://gyazo.com/309af0a479d9a74f00d4a0c0613cbf2c
Most of them won't photoshop stuff, they'll just reuse other people's pictures, usually Twitter people's pictures.
3. If you do end up chatting them, be wary for awful grammar, bad misspellings, etc. This is a pretty good indicator that they're not who they claim to be, in my experience at least.
I'm pretty tired so I hope this was useful or whatever lol
1. Check basic profile information. Several red flags profile wise are: A very new profile, especially if it has a bunch of friends, this means they are spam adding people. Another red flag is no/hidden favorites. Not a good indicator but I've found a correlation between the lack of favorites and the likelihood of being a fake. A very good metric to finding if they are a scammer is to look at their comment count, low comments or extremely high comments is a red flag. Another thing regarding information, a suspicious link in their website URL. This is extremely obvious. And finally if they use a generic location such as Earth or United States. When they DM you they'll ask where you're from and then respond with "I'm also from there too", but this isn't always accurate.
2. Check their pictures/verification picture. It doesn't hurt to reverse image search someone who you think is a fake. Take this for example. Scammer's verification picture https://gyazo.com/a4b8207fa8e085a2081d9abd4df6552c vs actual picture https://gyazo.com/309af0a479d9a74f00d4a0c0613cbf2c
Most of them won't photoshop stuff, they'll just reuse other people's pictures, usually Twitter people's pictures.
3. If you do end up chatting them, be wary for awful grammar, bad misspellings, etc. This is a pretty good indicator that they're not who they claim to be, in my experience at least.
I'm pretty tired so I hope this was useful or whatever lol
2 years ago
