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sKePTiKal:
Well I think this was a false alarm, ladies.
My "useful big brother" who really IS that kind of engineer... is helping me dig. I hit an immediate pothole when one of the photos he sent me clearly looked photoshopped. So I checked out the company website... LOOKS legit... until you find out there are no technical docs behind the links. A bare bones LinkedIn profile for the CEO (with absolutely NO personal data; just a blurb about the company). That's not at all how CEOs use LinkedIn. I haven't checked facebook, because I deactivated my account there.
Now, I know how easy it is build a web presence to legitimize just about anything. So, I started going deeper. Local county public records have nothing - no phone number, no address, no tax records for this guy. So I looked up the company address in Texas.
Google resolves that to a townhouse, and tax records show someone else owns it. OK, so he's renting it... but when I did a reverse DNS lookup on the website... the domain name for the company (with the typo in it) is still available for sale. And there is another company of the same name in Florida (without the typo in the web address). Better Business Bureau in TX never heard of the company.
Once upon a time, there was a rash of people buying domains with a slight typo in it... to trick people into thinking it was their familiar legit website, so they'd provide personal info for identity theft. The kind of searching I'm doing online is something Mike was genius at. We had several occasions to use his techniques when we were trying to verify that something was on the up & up.
Think I'll take my time replying to his email. There are some good questions I can ask about where he says he's living now... to catch him in his lies. (Which was something he said he hates in relationships... a couple of times, which also caught my eye as being... odd, this early on.) Think this is a scam, ladies. Way too many things that don't pan out; aren't on the up & up.
Hopalong:
Oh my GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!
Could you simply click the link to report him to the website and back away, let others fix this?
Sheesh. This does not deserve your precious interest, imo.
SO glad you're dodging this bullet and resent that you even got it fired at you.
Pfffft.
Hops
lighter:
Now see.....THIS is why I don't date. The idea I'd actually invite more chaos into my life is untenable....pretty much consistently. I see people around me dealing with chaos and feel conflicted....one part of me admires their bravery and grit....
The other part is totally flipping out...... and then I remember DD's bf. That there are nice men out there. That nice people don't have to get snapped up only by the personality disordered.
Right?
Lighter
Hopalong:
Bingo.
What I'm REALLY asking, Amber, is...why reply to his email at ALL?
Why take the bait?
Why spend another minute trying to prove something that wastes your time?
What, if you want to look at it this way...what are you getting out of spending one minute further?
(That I think, is where the fruitful insights lie.)
love,
Hops
Twoapenny:
Skep, I think you should work for the FBI! Oh my goodness, what a lot of kerfuffle. Do people do this to scam money or to hide things like being married or something like that? You might end up on Catfish :) I hope this doesn't cause problems for you, Skep, it sounds a bit scary xx
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