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My face looks too much like Jack Black to be taken seriously enough by a potential romance scam victim.
This is not the greatest romance scam in the world. No, this is just a tribute.
Just a matter of opinion!
Beware of the perfect gentleman
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Re: Beware of the perfect gentleman
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you sure we are getting contacted by the same recruiters? I'm pretty sure most recruiters are not like that; and we would be better without them. Recruiters exists because companies wants to save on $$ (it would make more sense to let developers do the recruiting, and not someone with no technical knowledge). Of course, this has the opposite result which is why the hiring market is such a sh*t-show.
I'm a whore and the recruiters are my pimps. They only like me because the johns hire me. The world makes more sense through that lens.
I know it's against the guidelines but:
bruh
Re: Beware of the perfect gentleman
#63As a tech guy, I would write some web pages with my image and textual explanations of the scam, then SEO optimise them for reverse image search. Hypothetically, of course, since I will never need to do it for myself as I am definitely not handsome enough. I wonder why the guys didn't want their faces in the article? That way any reverse image lookup could find the story, the victims would know without getting in touc…
Most people don't even know that reverse image search exists.
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#64I have been constantly harrased by accounts with pretty girl pictures on LinkedIn, wish they could do something. Why did I know they are fake? One, I'm not handsome, neither do I work in those high status companies, why did they reach out to me? Two, they look more like models than software engineers. Completely bullshit.
> they look more like models than software engineers I worked with someone (she was on the sales team) who looked like a model. Her mom was a model--go figure. So while unlikely, it does happen.
I remember filtering programmer resumes about 20 years ago and one listed modelling as a prior job and her packet included a headshot. We flew her out and interviewed her and she aced the written test and interviews; we made her an offer but she had multiple to choose from and our starting salary was not competitive.
Re: Beware of the perfect gentleman
#65Things I didn't realize I should be thankful for #2,500,231: My face will never ever be used for a romance scam.
Soon enough, DALL-E may be able to tweak any face to make it scam-worthy, and GPT will be able to complement it to pluck the heartstrings just so
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#66I know it’s sad and scary to get death threats. But having a gay guy have a wide following of women in love with him is hilarious
It doesn't surprise me. Especially among men over 40, on average gay men pay much more attention to their appearance, grooming, etc. than straight men, because men whether gay or straight tend to be more visually oriented than women and looks matter to the people they want to attract. Of course like any generalization there are many exceptions to this.
I agree there are many exceptions and we have to be careful about generalizing.
It's an interesting explanation. (That gay men pay more attention to their appearance than straight men because they want to be attractive to men rather than women, and men both gay and straight are more visually oriented than women.)
This theory would predict that gay women would pay much less attention to their own appearance than straight women do (since the women they want to attract care less about looks than men do).
Do you think that's the case?
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Time to retire Cinderella and similar stories. The article mentions Tindler Swindler, and I can vouch - it's a great film. It is an absolute puzzle at first, cause the man spares no money to trigger a Cinderella in the victims: real charter jet, real high-class hotel, real flowers and gifts. And she has 0 at her bank account - what the man that can burn more money in a day that she makes in a year may potentially w…
You can always tell them, however most are told from youth that they should always marry upwards. Your experience may vary.
The victim in Tindler Swindler was not trying to marry, upwards or otherwise. She was just... tindlering. And got this charming man with "Let's fly for a weekend in Paris on my private jet".
I do not see any possibility to resist. Yes, "It's too good to be true". But the jet was real...
Re: Beware of the perfect gentleman
#68As a tech guy, I would write some web pages with my image and textual explanations of the scam, then SEO optimise them for reverse image search. Hypothetically, of course, since I will never need to do it for myself as I am definitely not handsome enough. I wonder why the guys didn't want their faces in the article? That way any reverse image lookup could find the story, the victims would know without getting in touc…
The article explains that the women often have a hard time letting go after realizing they’ve been scammed.
Re: Beware of the perfect gentleman
#69I know it’s sad and scary to get death threats. But having a gay guy have a wide following of women in love with him is hilarious
It doesn't surprise me. Especially among men over 40, on average gay men pay much more attention to their appearance, grooming, etc. than straight men, because men whether gay or straight tend to be more visually oriented than women and looks matter to the people they want to attract. Of course like any generalization there are many exceptions to this.
>among men over 40, on average gay men pay much more attention to their appearance, grooming, etc. than straight men
Men over 40 do not need to pay any attention to their appearance, grooming etc. They just need to not wear a wedding ring. (Ask me how I know...)
Re: Beware of the perfect gentleman
#70Things I didn't realize I should be thankful for #2,500,231: My face will never ever be used for a romance scam.
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