Kathy Rose aka [email protected]

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From: Kathy Rose <[email protected]>
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....am kathy by name and i was born in the usa colorado and presently in the uk now kindly add me up kathyrose72 and let chat

regards



Kathy Rose: what you looking for ?
Dan D: do you havea UK phone number whrer I can call you to confirm you are in UK?
Dan D: and do you have a web cam to confirm you match the photos?
Kathy Rose: i dont have a cell phone
Dan D: I am looking for somebody REAL- I am running into phonies on here- who use white model pictures and Kathy Rose: and i dont have cam

Dan D: Hi
Kathy Rose: how are you doing
Dan D: alright-
Dan D: your email does not appear to be coming from UK
Dan D: is that where you claim to have sent it from?
Kathy Rose: yes
Dan D: so all your submission is total bullshit-
Dan D: no phone number to confirm where you are- and no cam to prove you are the same girl in the photos-
Dan D: You are a phony too.
Dan D: Sorry.

Thanks for reporting this one!

One thing, though. I've noticed that you have been confronting the scammers with the reasons you know they are scammers. In general, when talking to scammers, it is not a good idea to point out the mistakes they made that proved they were scammers. Every time you do that, you educate the scammers, and ultimately help them to improve their scams. We like it when they make mistakes, as it makes it easier to detect them.

For example, if you point out that the photos they used show up in google, you encourage them to look for photos that cannot be searched. If you point out that their IP's give them away, they will start hiding behind proxies.

Go ahead and call them out for being a scammer, but don't tell them what alerted you--or confuse them further by making up something that is not true.