| Should I be apprehensive giving my cell # before any real email?
Posted: 7/31/2009 9:27:56 AM | Hi.
I've been hit up twice in the past 12 hours to send my cell # to see a pic from two separate users who have no pic in their profile. In a year, I've never had that happen.
In that time I've typically resisted the temptation to persue profiles without photos after a negative experience early on.
I recieved a nice but very short contact from the first who appears to be legit, but has no photo. After explaining the above in a response, she advized that she has no photo because her camera was stolen, but is willing to send one to my phone if I send her my number. That would be fine, but wouldn't you likely still have a pic on your PC? Even if it were a few months old.
In the midst of this, I happened by chance onto another pictureless profile that was far more descriptive than any other's I had seen and it grabbed my attention even without photos.
She stated in it the reason for no pic was she still had an old camera. I nonetheless,initiated contact and complimented her on how well composed her profile was and thanking her for such a great description of herself.
Even though I did not request pic, she replied within an hour or two with only this message: "send cell#, I'll send pic"
As far as I can tell, she hadn't even viewd my profile, or at least she doesn't come up in the "Who's Viewed Me" section.
Am I being over cautions or rightfully so? I would never recommend anyone else give out their phone number with almost ZERO correspondence, but to get a pic would be a good reason to do so even if it's not the smartest thing to do.
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| Should I be apprehensive giving my cell # before any real email?
Posted: 7/31/2009 9:58:08 AM | No way, you are right to be cautious, this is a scam. If you give these people your cell number you will find charges on your bill that you never knowingly authorized and/or you will start getting cell spam.
There is absolutely no reason why someone who has a pic that can be sent to a cell phone can't e-mail it to you. They just want your number. | |
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| Should I be apprehensive giving my cell # before any real email?
Posted: 7/31/2009 10:20:40 AM | DON'T DO IT!
Smells very 'fishy' to me. It's not only gals who need to be cautious and protect themselves ... guys need to do so as well.
With the internet, you can find all sorts of stuff about other people. Be careful.
With these two, I would stick to emails thru PoF for a week or so, then progress to regular email. If they don't like it - too bad. There are plenty of other fishies out there.
Lots of luck,
MF | |
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| Should I be apprehensive giving my cell # before any real email?
Posted: 7/31/2009 10:51:32 AM | It wouldn't have occurred to me either, except that recently a company from which I ordered something online gave my cell number (they required a phone number to take the order, which I thought was weird, but, never having had a bad experience yet, thought, why not) to this horrendous company famous for maxing out people's cell phone accounts with huge text message fees. It gets billed through the provider, so often they don't even know until the month is up.
I got Verizon to block them for me - they were very helpful and thorough - but it's posed such a problem for so many people that the people who do this had to settle a huge class-action suit. It's also so lucrative that they're still doing it anyway! And they are far from the only ones.
What set off the alarm bell for me was the illogic of it. Anything you can send to a cell phone, you can send in an e-mail. And that they were using a photo as a lure. Where there's bait, there's often a switch as well.
Good thing you thought to ask! | |
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| Should I be apprehensive giving my cell # before any real email?
Posted: 7/31/2009 3:05:03 PM | Give your phone number out when you are comfortable enough to progress to a potential meeting.
Make up a dating email and use it for dating site contacts.
If someone can send a pic through their cell, they can send one to their email and upload it to the computer for their profile. If someone is too stupid to do that are you really going to be interested in them? | |
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| Should I be apprehensive giving my cell # before any real email?
Posted: 7/31/2009 8:08:56 PM | You really shouldn't give out your cell or any truly private/personal info. I was contacted by a woman who was from Tennessee. She didn't have a picture and a somewhat generic, vague profile. Turns out she was using someone's profile to contact me, she was from Russia and wanted so bad to be my girlfriend. She kept asking for the name of the local airport(?) and my phone number etc. I figured out after the second e mail what was going on, but for kicks and grins, played along. She stopped e mailing me after I called her out on the nude pics she sent to me, of herself. Whomever was behind the little scam did not bother to make sure that certain details of each nude pic matched each pic(they didn't even get close).
So just skip those you feel are questionable. | |
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| Should I be apprehensive giving my cell # before any real email?
Posted: 7/31/2009 8:55:47 PM | | Your a guy there is not much you can do with a cell number thats not yours that I know of and if your being stalked by a woman much easier ways to find you than cell phone numbers. Though they can be used to check for names and do background checks. I think maybe your reading too much into this its a lot easier to go to a cell phone registry and steal numbers than to ask for one. Take a chance I am not really worried about being stalked by a woman myself. I know there are phycos out there I just not that afraid of them I can get crazy enough on my own. | |
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| Should I be apprehensive giving my cell # before any real email?
Posted: 8/1/2009 12:20:57 AM | NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER give out your cell phone online. They can sign you up for a trillion of services that will charge your cell phone.
I worked in a mobile phone call center back in the days so I am very much used to people calling in complaining about never having signed up for "Psychic service" online. Some of these people had monthly charges of $100-300 from these silly charges. | |
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| Should I be apprehensive giving my cell # before any real email?
Posted: 8/1/2009 12:42:05 PM | | I would be ultra-apprehensive about giving somebody any of my phone numbers before any correspondence took place. As far as photos go, if they are compelled to share a photo with you and they don't want to make it public there's the option of private photos in their profile. The cell phone ploy sounds pretty hinky if you ask me. | |
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| Should I be apprehensive giving my cell # before any real email?
Posted: 8/1/2009 2:00:56 PM | If you're not afraid of nude pictures, I don't see why it would be a problem. I have gotten the opposite, people seem stunned that I don't have a picture phone.
Some people are not technologically savy and as easy as it is to scan and upload pics, they may have no clue so if you want to see waht they look like, give them your number. Don't see where you could be opening yourself up to problems being a guy.
I worked in a mobile phone call center back in the days so I am very much used to people calling in complaining about never having signed up for "Psychic service" online. Some of these people had monthly charges of $100-300 from these silly charges.
Most companies also offer a means of ensuring that people cannot do this. | |
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| Should I be apprehensive giving my cell # before any real email?
Posted: 8/1/2009 2:21:38 PM | NEVER give out your #! At least not until you've met the lady :)
and PS, they could easily forward the pics on their cell to their e-mails, just send it as an MMS to an e-mail account instead of to another phone. Tell them that next time :D | |
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