You will notice that it’s quite often easy for you to spot the bot. Then you’re not the intended victim. The intended victim is instead someone who is either normally easily duped, or, mostly, currently in an emotional state that makes them easily duped. Starved for attention, severly frustrated sex life, in a depression, desperate for money, deeply yearning for friendship, scared… Oh, now you’re vulnerable to the robot. You desperately want to believe it is human, and that it is what it purports to be- the contact you need. You DM.
The predatory robots didn’t come as hell-bent war machines. They came offering a faximile of the friendship and intimacy that so many craved and were themselves unable to fashion. They sought out the weakest of the human herd, sucking their souls and wallets dry. Leaving the empty husks aside when done, refuelled and strenghtened, they were able to reach even more…
The names the scam uses for its profiles seem more and more to be generated from some kind of name automation, again a relatively low to no effort robot doing this. Many sites, and I believe Quora is among them, have very little defenses built in against a profile generating robot; yet again the scammers have a low to no effort way in.
Hi everybody! I have been looking at posts on narcs and narc abuse on here and if has really helped me out a lot. I am currently struggling with my situation and need some advice/support.
I met a narc last year, everything seemed to good to be true. Love bombing, always texting calling and taking me on dates. Everything changed when someone warned me about him out in public in front of him and who he is. This caused a conflict with us and the love bombing seized.
he would tell me that everything is okay and i can come and talk. He would set a time limit on me and kick me out after that.
he would then text me like everything was fine and we hung out again and after that he completely ghosted me for one week. He came back and texted me a week later laughing about the ghosting and acting like nothing had happened.
he continued to text me ( not like in the beginning) make plans with me, then on the day of the plans he would just ghost me. One day he would act interested the next silence.
i contacted him a month later and he acted like nothing happened. He was on a vacation and sent me a picture of another woman ( someone he allegedly met on the trip) to strike a reaction but i never gave him one. After the trip he came to my place and was extremely rude, accusing me of going on dates with a bunch of men. The next day he accused me of being an alcoholic and that he wanted nothing to do with me but said well maybe we can be "friends" then ghosted me
i assumed at this point it was over and i would never hear from him again. He contacted me on the holiday a month later acting like everything was great. We ended up hanging out a month or so later and when we hung out it went well, i thought things were going in the right direction.
after we hung out.. silence. I would try to text him and if he replied it would be very short then he just stopped replying. He ghosted me for almost three months. I thought he was done this time and of course he popped up again like nothing happened. At this point i was getting sick of if so i questioned him as to why he dissapeared and always does this. Of course he had some sob story about a injury and family member dying of cancer. I felt pity for him and he gave me an apology.. so i took him back stupidly.
things seemed to be going smooth for a couple months, of course until his family member died and his injury got better he never contacted me and was distant. Menawhile, i was there for him during the difficult time for him. He lied to me about the funeral and never wanted to chat. I was chasing him and he would always claim nothing was wrong but when i said i thought he used me when he was down he could not handle it and would always tell me he didnt care and to go away. I would get so upset i would try texting him to work it out he would barelt respond and if he did he would not be nice about it.
we did hang out a couple times after that, he would ignore me after. One day i was like hey i think you are seeing someone else, and i was like well ixam seeing someone so no problem if you are he said " buy bye good luck with your new guy stop contacting me" i was devastated and tried to get into contact with him for weeks then i just gave up and accepted it was over. He ended up contacting me a month later acting like everything was fine. He wanted to go out and have drinks i told him i would. He and i both seemed to have a great time. He ends up ignoring me again. I kept texting him trying to figure out what was wrong. He kept saying everything was fine and i said ok can we hang out again? He said maybe i was like why? He just kept saying maybe …
our last conversation we had… i said what is wrong ? He said nothing is wrong everything is fine. I asked him why he keeps saying maybe. He said " maybe but i dont want to see you right now" i said why? He saix " im just not feeling it, if i wanted to date i would" i said why did you contact me less then a week ago wanting to go out? He said i didnt.. even though he did. So i said should i just move on or what? He said whatever you want to do. So i said that he was really confusing me and asked him if he had anything more to say before i move on? My messages were turning green so i panicked he blocked me and reacted irrationally. I said " omg did you block me? My messages are not going through. Even texted him on my work phone asking what was up. And called him twice ( please dont judge me i know it is pathetic i never was this type of girl before him) so he replied and said " Ok I'll block you now" then immedietly blocked me. He has never blocked me before since I have met him he will just ghost. Is this ths final discard aka " grand finale? Did i just push him too far?
this has upset me so much its hard to even function.
Yet a scary part? I am very sure todays languange learning models are well tailored to automating this last correspondence as well. And then that also becomes low effort and will further enrich the totally despicable criminals setting the whole shebang up. Enrich to the point they will have a marked influence on the societies they parasitise.
So now they have a multitude of hot babe profile pictures, coupled with a multitude of profiles for little effort. Time to use a low effort mass spreading of a short sentence (DM me, You look hot, You have such interesting content here on Quora, and so on), often with a hook for further direct messaging. All very low effort, and as such can easily be spread very wide.
To elaborate a bit: I suspect amost everyone has these pop up as direct messages and comments on their answers. The bots used to do this spread a very wide net. It starts with stealing the public picture of a onlyfans model, porn actor or just a hot girl on facebook; this is trivially easy. The profile picture is in all these cases public and must most often be if the original owner is to attract some customers or followers. The pictures are thus available to scrape up by a rough kind of search robot. The same for males, only pictures with a somewhat military look and rich buisiness looks is preferred.
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And as of now, here steps the humans and the high effort in. These humans are very good at making vulnerable people form connections with them- imagined romantic connection, friendship, financial advice, co-conspirators to the caper of the century… And then the pleas for money come. With the vetting done by having the bots be so obvious only the vulnerable rises to the bait, these cretins have a scarily high sucess rate, enough to fill many, many data centers with people whose only job is being a vampire to suck your wallet and soul dry.
