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Sep 10, 2024 01:17
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They asked to exchange contact information, so I sent them my QR code. When they still hadn’t added me the next day, I thought it wasn’t safe to leave things that way, so I waited a day and updated it to a new QR code. When they said they couldn’t register it, I explained why and exchanged contact information using the new code.
We also made plans to meet, but they canceled at the last minute, which made me increasingly uneasy. When we made another appointment, I asked them to send the allowance in advance. They then said I was only doing strange things, like changing my ID and asking for payment upfront.
They told me that since everything about the situation made them uncomfortable, we should stop meeting.
Am I the one in the wrong here? Is it really strange, from a security standpoint, to change my ID and ask for payment upfront?
I don’t really understand how men think, and I know the other person wasn’t entirely at fault either, but I’m frustrated because they blamed me one-sidedly after I had kept my schedule open for them.
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I’m okay with switching IDs too, but if someone suggests paying upfront via social media or the like, I’d consider it highly likely to be a scam.
If you suggest paying upfront to someone you’ve never even met, I think it’s pretty much game over.
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I understand changing your ID for safety reasons—I do that myself—but I can’t understand asking for payment upfront.
If you were in the other person’s position and they asked you to pay in advance, would you? They might not even show up after receiving the money, right?
A common pattern in scams is asking for payment upfront.