I have sixteen new emails. These are from females all over the world. I also have cut rate Viagra offers. These, mixed in with advisories I’ve won various contests held by Walmarts and other American companies, I can delete them all in a second.
This is because, somehow, brilliantly, when I opened this particular email account I used a name that could be male, could be female and I boldly lied about living in New York City.
As you know, I live in Jamaica. And I’m female.
By this simple ‘trick’ I put myself in a position where trying to scam me is virtually impossible.
In most cases, if they can’t tell by your name if you are male or female, they opt for male. And if you pretend to live in America, well… you’ll get such obvious scam emails that you will never fall for them.
On various sites, I learned, years ago, that being a white male American got you credance, not be white, or male, or American, often got 2nd or 3rd class treatment.
So…
As I mentioned in another item … we did an experiment. Each of us created a dual, a white male American. So we’d be on a message board as ourselves, then be on as our dual, and our dual got the respect we didn’t, although we did dumb him down.
There are no scammers who are wasting any time trying to scam Jamaicans. So when someone tries the trick with me, I don’t need to answer, unless I’m in a particularly evil mood, then I’ll use my ‘foreign language’.
If you can hide your sex on particular sites, you protect yourself from all sorts of unnecessary trolling. And if your are female, and they think you are male, well, the kind of scams they try to run… are … sex specific.
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To besafe, do not give so much information about yourself on strangers on the net. As I mentioned in my post, scammers can easily hide behind their keyboards. The unsuspecting victim might be easily be fooled if he would not investigate first before agreeing with a stranger on the net.
yes, keeping yourself safe is important.. and very possible
That's so funny. It's been happening to me ever since I started receiving mail. I've been getting mail delivered to me addressed “Mr.” for as long as I can remember. Getting on the Internet didn't change anything. What's odd is that even with my picture online, I still get called “sir” or “mister”. :)
Are you getting messages from Russian hotties?
I can't remember if they were Russian. But when I get them it makes me laugh! I have in my memory a cartoon I once saw where two animals were sitting in front of a computer and one is telling the other: “Don't worry. On the Internet they don't know you're a dog!” :)