Adam4Adam-Fake -Almost Assuredly

[+ Gar1eth]

I have an Adam4Adam Account. I've had it for years. I don't think I've ever met anyone from it for two main reasons. The first is that I've had very few people contact me on my account. I don't seem to be an Adam4Adam man magnet. As for the second, well I've had the account longer than there have been smart phones and the rise of the 'Hook-up' apps like Growlr, Grindr, Scruff, Mister X, and the rest. When I first had the account, I was even less out than I am now-and if anyone had contacted me on there, I'm sure I would have been too scared to meet a stranger for sex. Yes I know that's strange since I had already hired escorts. But, and maybe it's because this site, I trusted the escorts I hired.

 

Recently however with the rise of the Hook-up Apps, I've been looking at my Adam4Adam Account and having my regularl email alerted if anyone sent me a message through A4A.

 

So I received a message from a handsome looking guy from Atlanta. The message was short. I basically told him he was too far away. Well last night he sent me another message. It was much longer and the syntax doesn't sound like what we Americans would use. The message used the term 'Dear' in the same way that messages I received last year on the app Mister. And I was sure at the time that those messages were fake. On looking further at this message from this Atlanta guy I found that his profile had been deleted. I was sure the message was fake after reading it. The syntax is wrong for an American, and even in the south, I do not think most American males, gay or straight, use the term 'Dear' to unknown males. The deletion of his account was just the final nail in the coffin.

 

Here is the message. Do any of you with experience with English speakers in foreign climes detect any telltale clues of where it might be from?

 

Physical_love20

(37 mins ago)http://images.adam4adam.com/ressources/rimages/ib_unread.gif?v=410 Welcome here' well it my pleasure to to hear from u' anyway am Robert by name 52 yrs old of age from Georgia ATL. well am 180 weight cock 8 inches with my grey hairy. well i will love to get to know more about u as well...so my Dear can u also tell me little about your self and what actually are u looking for?

Anyone else ever receive fake emails from A4A?

 

Gman

[+ Chris Eisenhower]

"...so my Dear"

 

For some reason they think this is a commonly used greeting in America.

[tanman4u]

Usually when "dear" is used in emails to me (not just the ones on A4A) I'm about to get hit up to help a Nigerian prince sneak his billions into the U.S. or some other such scam.

[bigvalboy]

Physical_love20

(37 mins ago)http://images.adam4adam.com/ressources/rimages/ib_unread.gif?v=410 well am 180 weight cock 8 inches with my grey hairy.

Gman

 

Hmmm...cock 8 inches with my grey hairy what? He's such a tease, sounds to me like he's a keeper.

[maninsoma]

Even when the grammar is much better than that, I don't give guys the time of day if they don't live near me and don't have a plausible explanation as to why they are contacting me when I'm so far away. I'm not talking 50 miles away but rather on the other coast of the U.S. or in another country. Maybe they are legitimate and either just lonely or hoping they will find someone who wants to have a cyber relationship, but as Kimberly "Sweet Brown" Wilkins said, "Ain't Nobody Got Time For That."

[thickornotatall]

oh dear!

[+ Gar1eth]

Even when the grammar is much better than that, I don't give guys the time of day if they don't live near me and don't have a plausible explanation as to why they are contacting me when I'm so far away. I'm not talking 50 miles away but rather on the other coast of the U.S. or in another country. Maybe they are legitimate and either just lonely or hoping they will find someone who wants to have a cyber relationship, but as Kimberly "Sweet Brown" Wilkins said, "Ain't Nobody Got Time For That."

 

That's my usual policy unless they are incredibly handsome (ok I admit it. I have a weakness for handsome guys-sue me. ). What gets me are guys who write these incredibly long biographies on how they are looking for true love on these social apps. My general thought is a lot of those profiles are scams. But I'm thinking some of them could be real? And I just think to myself-Self, I say, that's just too intense for these kind of apps/websites.

 

I had a friend in grad school. Let's call him Lester. Lester was straight. But he seemed to me to be more in love with the intoxicating feeling of being in love than actual love. He would meet a woman and then want to send large amounts of flowers to her and start talking after a first date about spreading rose petals around and making love on a bed spread with rose petals. Maybe I'm just not romantic enough. I used to tell him, "Lester, don't come on so strong initially" (or at least that's what I would have said if Lester had actually been his name). He used to say to me, "Gman, if flowers everywhere after a first date would scare her off, she's not the kind of woman I want to be with. "

 

Gman

[dcguy20]

I would usually get fake messages from hot 20-something year old guys (according to their photo) from Guyana. The message always started out with Hello handsome, or something along those lines (even though I don't have a photo with my profile). I'm looking to find my true love, etc., etc., etc. DELETE!!!

[+ Gar1eth]

I would usually get fake messages from hot 20-something year old guys (according to their photo) from Guyana. The message always started out with Hello handsome, or something along those lines (even though I don't have a photo with my profile). I'm looking to find my true love, etc., etc., etc. DELETE!!!

 

Last year when I was on the MisterX app, I received two or three messages from US Military guys who couldn't continue to use the app, couldn't share any revealing photos, and were interested in making me their life partner if we were compatible. And while their location might list Atlanta or Miami, the actual mileage indicator would say something like 8000 miles. When I would ask, they'd say something like they were in Afghanistan or Iraq currently but about to return home where they wanted us to meet and start our life together.

 

I am sorry this A4A message wasn't real. The guy was really handsome. And of course as BVB noted for an additional attraction he possesses a gray hairy.

A gray hairy what I don't know. But I'm sure it's something swoon-worthy, or else why include it?

 

Gman

[McLeanspider]

That's my usual policy unless they are incredibly handsome (ok I admit it. I have a weakness for handsome guys-sue me. ). What gets me are guys who write these incredibly long biographies on how they are looking for true love on these social apps. My general thought is a lot of those profiles are scams. But I'm thinking some of them could be real? And I just think to myself-Self, I say, that's just too intense for these kind of apps/websites.

 

I had a friend in grad school. Let's call him Lester. Lester was straight. But he seemed to me to be more in love with the intoxicating feeling of being in love than actual love. He would meet a woman and then want to send large amounts of flowers to her and start talking after a first date about spreading rose petals around and making love on a bed spread with rose petals. Maybe I'm just not romantic enough. I used to tell him, "Lester, don't come on so strong initially" (or at least that's what I would have said if Lester had actually been his name). He used to say to me, "Gman, if flowers everywhere after a first date would scare her off, she's not the kind of woman I want to be with. "

 

Gman

 

It's just like a Nigerian scam, LOL

 

They always prey on the elderly or the ones who don't get hit a lot.

[rvwnsd]

I've received a healthy handful of such messages. Most of the profiles end up being suspended by A4A, probably because they are scams.

 

Off-topic, but somewhat relevant story. I work for a company that outsourced systems analysis to an offshore vendor. Our first guy was amazing. His English was perfect and he obviously had practiced writing American English. He left the company after a few years and a different guy was assigned to us. His writing was atrocious. I reached out to his boss, who would not have occasion to review his work (don't ask) and provided a sample of his work. The boss called me and says "My God, this looks like Nigerian chain mail." The analyst sent us a very nice, but poorly written, good-bye note the following day.

[bostonman]

I would usually get fake messages from hot 20-something year old guys (according to their photo) from Guyana. The message always started out with Hello handsome, or something along those lines (even though I don't have a photo with my profile). I'm looking to find my true love, etc., etc., etc. DELETE!!!

 

Yeah, the "true love" thing (often with some bullshit like "distance shouldn't stand in the way of our love" etc) is an immediate tip-off.

 

I don't have Adam4Adam, but I've gotten similar kinds of messages on Manhunt, etc. The latest thing on MH is the "unsolicited unlock" - I'll log in when I get up in the morning and often find that some random guy has unlocked his pics for me, but without any hello or other message. And invariably the profile is from some faraway country, or the ad or pics just look a little phony. I don't even think twice, I just block them.

[+ Gar1eth]

It's just like a Nigerian scam, LOL

 

They always prey on the elderly or the ones who don't get hit a lot.

 

My gosh, it's like you are looking directly at me. You've described me to a 'T'. You are definitely 'strumming my pain with your fingers' and 'singing my life with your words'.

 

Gman

[AresEscortNYC]

They don't discriminate ---- you don't have to be elderly or any particular attribute, you just have to have an account anything, anywhere. I get messages like tbis from far-away strangers on Facebook all the time. I also receive, like clockwork, a Nigerian-sounding mash-note on Rentboy at least once a month. "Kindly request the presence of yourself to accompany me on London business trip, to be honoured $___ will be enough to guarantee as deposit towards your visit...... Blah blah", and it's all a money-order laundering scam. If only they were true!