blukats - that's a very interesting link, I'll be keeping tabs on that story, I'm not publishing your comment because I don't want Janna knowing what it's about, just in case...
Ms. O - absolutely, same address. And I have a feeling I know what photo you're going to be sending me.
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"The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms." -Kurt Vonnegut
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LOL..Ohhhhhhhhhhhh the nagging need to know everything could drive a nut nuttier....lol
oh, is jsj on the con again? rhetorical question. she's such a boar.
I have been reading your blog for the last few days. Josh's article was linked a few years ago on a fan board I was/am a member of, and I recently re-read it. One of our board members, a highly intelligent woman whom I had met in real life and liked a lot, fell for a scam in which she came to believe that she was the long distance lover of the celebrity we were all fans of. The perpetrator of the scam was a young woman who had set up a fake myspace page which, although it did not have the celebrity's name on it, led our friend to believe that it was the celebrity's private page. (It had his mother and other relatives photos on it.) After our friend messaged the myspace page's owner, a young woman answered saying she was the celeb's "girlfriend." Oh, and that baby the celeb's mom was holding in the photo? That was her and celeb's baby! But they were broken up now! Would my friend like to get a "message" from her "ex-boyfriend?"
The young scammer had all the classic "Munchausen by Internet" attributes. She had "miscarried" the celeb's "twins." She had recovered from "leukemia." She was on "welfare." She scammed lots of money and even a car out of our friend and some other well-heeled fans. Oh, and she got pregnant again, although this time she didn't claim it was celeb's baby. Our friend tried to help her to find someone to adopt the baby, even flying potential adopters across country.
Our board friend started to reveal her "relationship" to a small group of other fans and some fell for it, and others tried strongly to disabuse her of the notion that this was the real celebrity she was carrying on with. She then escalated to lying that she had actually carried on with him in person, in the flesh. It was terrible; she lost her job, her marriage ended, and she lost a lot of friends.
I couldn't understand how such a brilliant woman could fall for such a scam, but through reading your blog and other victims' comments, I can see how easily it could happen. Thanks for sharing, and good luck in your lawsuit against this creep.
"she's such a boar."
In typo veritas.
@anon - 'twas not a typo ;)
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