Has anyone had a romance scammer start messaging them on Quora? How do you know if the person is scamming you? What do you do?

The predatory robots didn’t come as hell-bent war machines. They came offering a faximile of the friendship and intimacy that so many craved and were themselves unable to fashion. They sought out the weakest of the human herd, sucking their souls and wallets dry. Leaving the empty husks aside when done, refuelled and strenghtened, they were able to reach even more…

So now they have a multitude of hot babe profile pictures, coupled with a multitude of profiles for little effort. Time to use a low effort mass spreading of a short sentence (DM me, You look hot, You have such interesting content here on Quora, and so on), often with a hook for further direct messaging. All very low effort, and as such can easily be spread very wide.

Yet a scary part? I am very sure todays languange learning models are well tailored to automating this last correspondence as well. And then that also becomes low effort and will further enrich the totally despicable criminals setting the whole shebang up. Enrich to the point they will have a marked influence on the societies they parasitise.

Hello,hope y'all doin good, i came to Quora to share my strange story , a very weird one , a story when luck smiled at me ,maybe u will enjoy it , let's begin,have fun... A year ago ,I was a real porn addicted(btw I was 18) ,but never had sex before, I don't have a gf I didn't try to find one even ,always thinking to go to find a sex worker but then I just don't , everyday watching different bodies getting fucked and everyday enjoying. One day, I was watching porn, a big ass lady with big boobs ,just after seeing her the image of my female cousin poped in my mind, (let's introduce her : she's 35 years old , very big ass , nice boobs ,not very big but nice,always wearing tight clothes , she's divorced ) and I thought of me fucking her ,I never had sexual desires for her but now I do days went by and when I met her I was so horny ,I couldn't stay with the family cz my penis was clearly erected , I realized this is my first time I get horny for one of my family ,it not illegal in my country.well to make a long story short( if u want details just text me I will tell u 😊),I decided to give her signs that I want to fuck her,finally I decided to have sex and with my cousin , I thought it is the best beggining for me, i started touching her when I came across her in a narrow place , make her feel my hard cock when we hug , I thought it will hard and I will be ashamed but no , I felt nothing and she said nothing , probably she thought it was by mistake,anyways, I decided then to talk with her about sex, waited for her to be alone in a room and talk with her, I confessed everything about me watching porn and addicted..etc,she said it's normal and u are growing up and u must have sex,well at that time I was like whaaat????? Well I didn't control myself and asked her for sex ( horny like I Ve never been before) she said that she will think Abt it ,2 weeka went by then she called me ,telling that she reserved a room in a hotel and we meet tonight ,we met,and bruuhh, sex is great , I mean, I had to find a pirstitue ,what I was waiting for to have such a feeling ????, I will never forget that night, I started kissing her she was kissing hard ,she misses sex so bad , she sucked my dick and swallowed my semen ,I felt I'm in a dream , then when fucked ,her ass was very big and the anus was open ,didn't struggle to get my hard cock inside it , she was obviously missing sex , she was shouting ,fuck me yh fuck me , I go fast after every word until I cum , we did that 3 times , then we went to her pussy , using condoms I fucked her so hard the moans were higher , everything was perfect ,in the end I asked her to lick her body , licked pussy ,ass, boobs,then she sucked my cock until we sleeped ,all I know that she was dirty ,well before even having sex with her I knew she is an open minded woman , and a woman that looks that she donesnt know anything , but she knows everything, but never expected having sex with her ,well she was horny and that helped...but no one of us regretted that sex ever.. We still have sex from time to time ,and I started having sex with sex workers , joining threesomes..etc If u want pics of her text me.

And as of now, here steps the humans and the high effort in. These humans are very good at making vulnerable people form connections with them- imagined romantic connection, friendship, financial advice, co-conspirators to the caper of the century… And then the pleas for money come. With the vetting done by having the bots be so obvious only the vulnerable rises to the bait, these cretins have a scarily high sucess rate, enough to fill many, many data centers with people whose only job is being a vampire to suck your wallet and soul dry.

You will notice that it’s quite often easy for you to spot the bot. Then you’re not the intended victim. The intended victim is instead someone who is either normally easily duped, or, mostly, currently in an emotional state that makes them easily duped. Starved for attention, severly frustrated sex life, in a depression, desperate for money, deeply yearning for friendship, scared… Oh, now you’re vulnerable to the robot. You desperately want to believe it is human, and that it is what it purports to be- the contact you need. You DM.

The names the scam uses for its profiles seem more and more to be generated from some kind of name automation, again a relatively low to no effort robot doing this. Many sites, and I believe Quora is among them, have very little defenses built in against a profile generating robot; yet again the scammers have a low to no effort way in.

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To elaborate a bit: I suspect amost everyone has these pop up as direct messages and comments on their answers. The bots used to do this spread a very wide net. It starts with stealing the public picture of a onlyfans model, porn actor or just a hot girl on facebook; this is trivially easy. The profile picture is in all these cases public and must most often be if the original owner is to attract some customers or followers. The pictures are thus available to scrape up by a rough kind of search robot. The same for males, only pictures with a somewhat military look and rich buisiness looks is preferred.