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Meeting people over the internet

  • 04-11-2011 11:45PM
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,012 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi, I just wanted to run this past someone/people. I got chatting to somebody on a chat site (not a dating website) and I think she's great. We have a lot in common, and it seems she likes me too. She isn't from the same island as I'm currently on. We first started talking to each other yesterday (Thursday) at about 8pm. By now, half eleven on Friday, we are friends on Facebook, have skyped (she couldn't actually speak to me on skype because she said her mic/speakers were broke, but we could video each other and type to each other- her mic would be fixed on monday she said) and swapped mobile numbers. Everything she has told me seems to be true by both her fb page and having skyped her. As soon as I was off skype to her she texted me, saying she needed to text me or her phone won't save my number. I hope she is genuine and all this is true, but something about it (I just can't put my finger on it) just isn't right. In the space of 26 hours, things have moved incredibly fast! And her texting me straight away just seems a tad suspicious. But hopefully I'm wrong. Does anybody have experience of this? Has it happened to anyone else? Am I somehow walking into a trap? Am I setting myself up for a fall? Or, please God, am I paranoid? I just want to be safe rather than sorry. Can anyone offer me any advice?
    Many, many thanks!


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  • #2
    ando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,446 ✭✭✭ando


    Ehh, its about a day no? Slow down, your guts are telling you things are way too fast and they are right. Chillax and enjoy it! She could be genuine, she could be a mad bean, she could be someone that wants to be in contact a lot, you just dont know, its WAAY too soon to think.... just chill, suss her out and most of all just have fun!


  • #3
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,012 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    SomeoneSilent wrote: »
    Hi, I just wanted to run this past someone/people. I got chatting to somebody on a chat site (not a dating website) and I think she's great. We have a lot in common, and it seems she likes me too. She isn't from the same island as I'm currently on. We first started talking to each other yesterday (Thursday) at about 8pm. By now, half eleven on Friday, we are friends on Facebook, have skyped (she couldn't actually speak to me on skype because she said her mic/speakers were broke, but we could video each other and type to each other- her mic would be fixed on monday she said) and swapped mobile numbers. Everything she has told me seems to be true by both her fb page and having skyped her. As soon as I was off skype to her she texted me, saying she needed to text me or her phone won't save my number. I hope she is genuine and all this is true, but something about it (I just can't put my finger on it) just isn't right. In the space of 26 hours, things have moved incredibly fast! And her texting me straight away just seems a tad suspicious. But hopefully I'm wrong. Does anybody have experience of this? Has it happened to anyone else? Am I somehow walking into a trap? Am I setting myself up for a fall? Or, please God, am I paranoid? I just want to be safe rather than sorry. Can anyone offer me any advice?
    Many, many thanks!

    I hope it goes great for you.

    But you should trust your instinct to be cautious. It is possible to spoof fake the video input to Skype and replace it with a recorded video. Of course this would not match with the voice if you wanted to speak to her, so you could spot it very quickly, if you had audio.

    Remember that all laptops and most external webcams have a microphone built in now.

    It does sound suspicious, but you will know if/when you get a request for money.


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