As strange as this might sound, these scammers have also been targeting people on IMVU. I go to IMVU to chat with other adults there and listen in to chat in a virtual space and get my laughs. And on IMVU there is the ability to invite people to private chat sessions. I had an invite and figured I'd check to see what this was all about. To my surprise it was a guy who claimed that he is from Microsoft Support and he noticed that my computer was running slowly.
The scammer thought I was a female and I pretended to be a female and not very computer savy. I said its my boyfriends computer and that its so cool that Microsoft has teamed up with IMVU to give this free help. He then said the help is not free mam. I said oh its not? And he said no. Its $49.95. I said ok... um how do I pay for this service. he said I need a credit card. I said hmmmm... oh my boyfriend has one in his wallet. He said very good. I said be right back and wasted about 10 minutes of this scammers time. Then I came back and said ok I finally found his wallet. So he said very good. please give me the credit card number, so I started off the number with the first 4 digits of a real credit card so it looked like a legit number and then gave him other numbers and said B instead of 8 and E instead of 3. He said mam credit cards do not have letters. I was like well Im looking at his card and it has a B and an E in the number. He was like is the B and 8? I was like hmmmm maybe. he then is like what is the E it has to be a number. I then said oh sorry I am dyslexic and its a 3. He said very good. He then asked for the expiration date in which I told him an expired date of like 03/14. He was like mam that card is not good. I was like why? He said that card is expired mam. i was like oh... it is? Hmmm... he said does your boyfriend have another credit card. I said oh.. hmmm looking through his wallet. Then said oh I have one of those prepaid cards that i got for my birthday with $200 on it, could I use one of those? He said yes mam.. I said ok brb I need to go get it. So had him on hold again but not too long that he would leave, I let about 7 minutes pass. I then came back with a prepaid card that I had that was already used up that I got from a newegg rebate. I gave him that number and expiration date and code on the back of the card. He than said ok mam please wait while I process this transaction. he came back about 2 minutes later and said the card doesnt work. I said oh it doesnt. He said it isnt working. I then said OHHHHHHHHH... I forgot I bought makeup and a new dress with it and some other clothes pretending to be a stereotypical american female to an foreigner. He said mam. I am losing my patience with you. I said why? He said you gave me 2 cards that are no good. How am I to help you if your not paying for this service. I said um... do you take a check. He paused and said yes I can take a check. He said ok I need the account name so I started off with a name like Anita Money ... I thought he was going to pick up on this name right away but he didnt, he had me verify the spelling A N I T A M O N E Y ... Then he asked for the address and I said 6 6 6 ... then Lucifer Way and he still didnt pick up on this, and then the town and state i said Dallas, New York and still no problems and then zip code 8675309 and he said mam thats too many numbers. I said oh it is then I said your now losing my patience and I then cursed him out and he then said all sorts of nasty stuff back to me about what he is going to do to me as a female which i cant not share here. But like others who have wasted these scam artists time, I also did it to keep them from praying on others and also because I got my kicks out of ruining this scammers day.
Not all females online are females
