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Q: Is qq a source of fake users ?

I have been using QQ for last three months.I mainly openend to make some Chinese friends who know english,so i can learn chinese from them and also for business purpose.But in a month i used to get lot of friend request ,I used to approve them.One girl started making video calls on daily basis,and started chatting for one or two hours daily.On the third day itself she proposed me,and told that she is feeling lonely and eager to see me .She told me that she lives in hunan district ,her father is a rich man in guangzhou,but he will not give any money to her for reasons that all girls say.
She asked me to put 3000 RMB to her account so she will take flight from hunan to Guangzhou and then introduce me to her father and get some money from him saying that I am her boyfriend ,she is planning to live with me.
First I was so blind to believe this,But one thing that i noticed was that in video chat ,she was wearing same dress daily and her actions was same daily.Since we were not using voice chat i was not noticing this.I had a doubt now,i told her to raise her hand,she tried to manage me saying her hand is paining,told her to open her mouth,she disconnected the video call.

Finally I understood that I am being faked by some as#hole ,with a playback video .Guys please be aware .

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QQ, like many other sites, does not do background checks.  You just write down whatever you want and it will be added to your profile.

I use it, I am always Invisible, I do not replyb to any request to add my name as a friend, I do not answer any emails or video chat request from any one I do not know.  So, I use it without those problems. 

But thanks for the warning anyway

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I have been on QQ for 10 months now mostly to stay in touch with Chinese friends.  I get at least 5 requests a day from women wanting to be my friend (sometimes guys too) and I have ignored them all.....trust no one.
I don't trust women I meet in bars here let alone strange ones on the internet.

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"First I was so blind to believe this"

Naive, perhaps. A word of caution: anyone can be anyone they want to be on the internet. Perception is not reality, it is just what you think things to be. There are all types of scams, both virtual and in daily contact.

Many people get tricked because they either trust too quickly, have no experience with people who are not what they present themselves to be, or because they want something for nothing.

Be careful, as a general rule of behavior.

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Use QQ with same amount of tact and moderation with which you would use any other messaging service.  As for scamming -- it's not limited to QQ by any means.  How many foreigners on this very site are not foreigners?  And how many Chinese on this very site are not Chinese?  etc., etc.

QQ has a good feature that will allow you to check and to determine the user's IP location and address.  You should learn how to use it.  Additionally, with QQ, before you add anyone, you can build in a series of questions with required answers to the add-me demand.  You can verify the answers :  I can for real name, and verifiable telephone number.  In China, it is easy to verify the name and location of  a registered mobile telephone number.

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QQ is a virus.  Uninstall it (or good luck trying...  it buries itself in all your windows directories..)

Next to impossible to remove and it reports all of your computer files to the government.  Evil, evil program.  Don't bother with it.

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QQ can be readily uninstalled; a registry cleaner will remove all traces of it in the registry and certain programs available free of charge online can look for and find all of its scattered and orphaned dll's, etc., etc.

As for reporting all of my files to the government, I am totally indifferent to that.  I have nothing on my computer that is in the least odious.

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Ok so you're mad you got tricked and some woman doesn't want to fill all of your dreams the first time she gets to see you in person.  Welcome to the internet.

You weren't dumb enough to send money.  So you got hours of entertainment for nothing more than wanting to kick yourself for falling for the trick.

Think of it like watch a great movie but the power goes off right before the end.  Yeah you're pissed, but you did enjoy the time leading up to it. 

sudhakaran:

Great dude ,you are thinking in a different perspective.........g8 lol

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