“I’m used to doing video chat to filter out the real people from fake people,” Patrick says. He’d been online dating for a while, so this wasn’t the first time he’d Skyped with a near stranger. She was eager to get to know him - after they’d exchanged a few messages, she wanted to add him as a friend on all his social media accounts. She seemed “fresh-off-the-boat,” as he describes it, an Asian girl with broken English. So, I was kind of thinking with my dick.” “Plus, she was one of the most attractive people I’d ever met. “But it wasn’t on my mind, ‘cause I never thought it would happen to me,” he says. Patrick, for example, knew about these types of scams before he ever became a victim. Webcam blackmail is not a new scam, May tells us, but it is duping new men every day.
“One minute you see a good looking blonde, and the next you’ll see yourself with your pants around your ankles,” says Wayne May, the founder of Scam Survivors, a resource that counsels victims and educates the public about online scams.
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