u/Altruistic-Ladder-81

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Yesterday I posted a photo of my face on a subreddit for sharing those kinds of photos. Today, I got a message asking to send me money. I’m a woman if it makes any difference.

Here’s how the conversation went:
Stranger: Can I send u money?

Me: why would you send me money?

Stranger: Cuz u pretty af
Stranger: U got PayPal?

It can’t be real because why would you send a random person money just because they’re attractive? So I’m wondering how this works if it’s a scam?

My PayPal account is business and has no personal information visible to anyone, so I doubt it’s for that? I send it to strangers all the time because I do commissions and have never had any issue.

So what else is it? Has anyone gotten a message like this before? I’ve heard they can do something by sending you money and then getting your account banned, but what’s the purpose of that? I don’t keep any of my money on PayPal. Also, the account is a year old but with only 7 contributions and 2 karma, so that’s suspicious too

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u/Altruistic-Ladder-81 — 12 days ago

Yesterday I posted a photo of my face on a subreddit for sharing those kinds of photos. Today, I got a message asking to send me money. I’m a woman if it makes any difference.

Here’s how the conversation went:
Stranger: Can I send u money?

Me: why would you send me money?

Stranger: Cuz u pretty af
Stranger: U got PayPal?

It can’t be real because why would you send a random person money just because they’re attractive? So I’m wondering how this works if it’s a scam?

My PayPal account is business and has no personal information visible to anyone, so I doubt it’s for that? I send it to strangers all the time because I do commissions and have never had any issue.

So what else is it? Has anyone gotten a message like this before? I’ve heard they can do something by sending you money and then getting your account banned, but what’s the purpose of that? I don’t keep any of my money on PayPal

Edit: their account is 1 year old but has very little karma

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u/Altruistic-Ladder-81 — 12 days ago