#223064 by Ms Gullible?
Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:32 am
I've been corresponding with someone who says he is attached to the US Army in Afghanistan. He's sent lots of pictures and internet searches do not show him with any other names or on other sites. He says he is being posted to Syria in several days time and asked me to write to [email protected] where I could request a phone for each of us, so we could keep in touch.
I suspected the reply was not genuine, because of grammatical and spelling errors etc, but I can't find any real evidence of whether there is some sort of scam going on. I haven't been asked for money or anything, but I am asked for my address and phone number when ordering these phones.
Can anyone advise me? Do you know anyone who has been given one of these phones? It seems very unlikely to me that anyone would be giving them away; I feel there must be a request for money coming somewhere along the line.
This is my first post on here, so I'm sorry if it's been too long and rambling.
I suspected the reply was not genuine, because of grammatical and spelling errors etc, but I can't find any real evidence of whether there is some sort of scam going on. I haven't been asked for money or anything, but I am asked for my address and phone number when ordering these phones.
Can anyone advise me? Do you know anyone who has been given one of these phones? It seems very unlikely to me that anyone would be giving them away; I feel there must be a request for money coming somewhere along the line.
This is my first post on here, so I'm sorry if it's been too long and rambling.