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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 2812142" data-attributes="member: 264">This guy did. they really go to great lengths to try and build a "Close" relationship with you. Comments like "You are the onky person I feel comfortable dealing with" and suchlike will get you far.Just remember my golden rule: never, ever, give them any good information. None. Zero. Fake names, fke number, fake addresses, everything fake. Just get good at making up lies about why they aren't able to contact you except by email.One of my favorite moments was when I got a dude named "Mgume Ngamu" to pay postage on a bunch of "Computer Equipment" from my imaginary store. I told him I was Eastern Canada's leading independent Computer retailer and he suggested that I send him some gear to increase the ease with which we could ocplete the transaction.I told him to just compile a list of what he would like sent, and I would send it to him (I could write it off my taxes as a business expense). The guy was greedy beleive it or not<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />He asked for a half-dozen Pentium 4 laptops, flatscreen desktop monitors, MP3 Players(?) and a variety of other things. he also requested some cash in the box to help grease the wheels as he was going to have to bribe some people.I sent him what can only be caslled a bunch of junk.  A couple of old, burned-out routers, a bunch of loose TV parts. Casette tapes, bags of sand and a cinderblock. He, naturally, freaked out when he got the package--I suspect that postage to Lagos Nigeria isn't too cheap-- and wrote to me about how I had betrayed him, he! my very good friend! Like Brothers we were<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />. It was beautiful. I was tempted to keep stringing him along, but I let him off the hook instead, just telling him that everyone I persoanlly know is aware of his type of scam. He threatened to kill me, which I thought was pretty mean thing for a guy who thinks of me "like a Brother" to say<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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