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Evening fellow AARPers!
I just got a Private Message from LillianW552055. Subject is "Hi Please Stay Safe Am Waiting." I checked the profile, "Lillian" just joined today. No posts to-date.
Well, I think most of us know where this is going. Maybe it's even a well known thing around here and I just never got tagged. I reported the profile to the Admins, they can sort it out.
The message is "With the current situation of isolation and social distancing for this Covid 19 I just want to say hello and please be safe wherever you are and kindly respond i am waiting. lillianwnwindrope@gmail.com"
(since the email shows in public searches I am happy to include it here)
I Googled the email address and it shows up as on a lot of "let's be pals" sites.
I used the Google function to search for instances of the photograph included with the AARP profile (she appears to be much younger than AARP membership). A lot of entries in Portuguese showed up, I figured from Brazil.
Actually, translating the captions on one site with the photo (exact same photo) I got "American banker D..... L....., 33, who accuses Citibank of firing her for "being sexy and getting too much attention"" (I omitted the name). I actually recall that case of Citi firing her, not that I paid any attention to it at the time other than seeing a few headlines about it.
But I post this as an alert to others (probably singles, I am not; I'm happily married). A little detective work can go a long way!
I rarely get messages, but I got one a few days ago. Your post prompted me to look through my messages, and sure enough, I have two messages similar to yours! From a year or so ago. Completely ignored them. Since I guess they think I'm a man....and I'm not. :catwink:
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