Who's Your Daddy? - Facebook "friends" looking for a visa or a Sugar Daddy

I used to ignore "Friend Requests" on Facebook from strangers.  As an experiment, I started accepting nearly all of them. That apparently moved my profile a bit higher in the algorithm that determines Facebook's "People you may know" offering shown to others, and that triggered a lot more "Friend Requests." That seemed like a good thing until these people started hitting me up via Messenger.

It soon became apparent that many people are trolling Facebook for lonely old folks to "make friends" and then take advantage of their generosity, and sometimes gullibility. 

What follows are screen shots of the actual conversations, so you can see what they were asking for and how long it took them to get from "Hello" to "Send Money!" or "Help Me" etc.

"Johnson Vic" wants a sugar daddy:

Mohily Soliman Soliman wants a visa:

Kabugho Ellen Dora wants help finding a job in the US:

 

 

Mason Jessica (Why not Jessica Mason?) wants me to buy her an iTunes card

 

 

 

Niel Amina wants to meet someone on Facebook who will like her enough to pay her way to the US:

Venus Asinero wants a "friend" to help her move to America:

Apostle Emmanuel Bashimimana wants me to be his mentor:

 

 

William Kuboja wants me to bring him to America so he can work as my housekeeper:

 

 

 

Sarah Turkson didn't bother with the usual pleasantries and got right to the point - Send Money!

 

 

Priscilla Sweetz told me some "good news."
Apparently a government agency has teamed up with Publisher's Clearing House to give away free money!

 

Sometimes the same photos are used for multiple profiles:

Here are some tips for those who are trolling Facebook for a Sugar Daddy:
 

1. Spend some time on your profile. You need more than a couple of sexy pictures. Don't expect anyone but desperate men to respond to an empty or nearly empty profile. And don't post a picture of yourself looking like a skank. You may indeed have a great ass -- assuming it's even your picture, but what does it say about you when this is the image you select as your public face?
 

2. Spend some time reading the profiles of people before you contact them. Conversations I've had with these people almost always followed the same pattern:
How are you?
I'm Fine?
What's your name?
Ken
Where do you live?
San Diego, California
What do you do for a living?
I'm a writer.
(Then they try to solicit me for something) These are all things that they could have read on my profile before contacting me and it would have shown that they had at least some real interest in me as a person.

For what it's worth, everyone I've corresponded with has been nice and even cheerful. Some were more persistent than others in not taking "No" for an answer. Of course they all have their individual motives for what they're doing and it's not necessarily a bad thing either, depending on circumstances. But it's easy to see how seductive it might be for lonely folks desperate for some kind of connection.

 

 

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