This facebook ‘person’ who kept popping up in chat. I enabled her because I thought that she was another Esperanto person. Nope. French only. Improbably-gorgeous picture. Starts out with ‘tu’ instead of ‘vous’, and comes on in about the third reply with ‘I want to remake my life with a man’, this after I’d said I was looking for work!
:rolleyes:
But hey, the chat is in French. So, useful purpose anyways.
Great, you can learn all of the smutty French first 
Gauge her level of seriousness by insisting she has to learn Esperanto.
Mmm hmm.
I already asked. ‘She’ doesn’t know a word of it.
:: returns to filling out job applications ::
At least you didn’t send her any money via Western Union.
Now, wait, we can’t just assume that…
One of the ‘features’ of being underemployed is that one doesn’t have much money as a rule…
I usually point them at cleverbot.com
Yeah, maybe we can get some bot feedback going!
Did I mention the phone number from Côte D’Ivoire?
Gee, nothing suspicious about THAT!
Hey, dont pass on this opportunity. I got plenty rich from that bank rescuing job in Nigeria.
Well, starting out with “tu” on Facebook isn’t, in itself, all that weird. It’s an incredibly informal medium. As for the rest… yeah, possible spammer.
Have fun with practicing your French, though!
I think I’ll ask her what the weather’s like in Abidjan.
It’s not that the Côte d’Ivoire number in itself is suspicious, but combine it with the French email account, and the too-rapid escalation of the conversational intimacy… it’s suspicious as a whole.
Interestingly, francophone Africans often have .fr email addresses. I think it’s the case with pretty much all African students in my department (those whose email address I know, anyway). But otherwise, yes, there are many West African women who look for men on the internet, establish some sort of relationship with them, and eventually ask for money. So “scammer” more than “spammer”, perhaps.
Well, I hadn’t seen her around lately; I suppose she’s moved on to easier pickings.
I joined LiveMocha, which advertises itself as a language-learning exchange site. this actually works quite well. But. I’ve gotten six spammy messages, all along the same lines: “I read your profile, you seem attractive, want to wind your life together with mine?” Um, no. You don’t know me. I filled out no profile. Go away, scammer.
It’s getting to the point where I think I’m going to try a real-life language chat in Toronto.