She sent me a message through here, apparently just before getting banned, as "buffyswan" (she may have more accounts), with a long list of things she does for money, like phone, text, video chat, with a Patreon link and her number, so I text her what she means exactly, and she starts trying to upsell me aggressively on all of this stuff, much of it for a lot of money for very little apparent experience, gives me all these links... it's hard to think she wasn't real, but the way she kept jumping to conclusions and misunderstanding and getting upset when I questioned something, and then didn't even understand the word "patronizing" (when she had a Patreon haha) makes me think she's not the brightest bulb in the pack or this was someone else just trying to hock for her (I'll bet it's that)... she is a real performer but she's going about this in a terrible way that counteracts her sweet intelligent image online.
Anyway, did anyone else run into this with her? I'm trying to better identify scams, and she just went off the rails when I tried to clarify things or ask questions... it's terrifying thinking how easily someone can get scammed out of money, and it hurts my feelings to get berated over trivial things or the nonsense she was saying... (I had to block her, she was blowing up my phone so much, I feel like I just got attacked by a pack of wild hyenas).
Previous to this, last week someone local here messaged me to contact her, and we texted and she seemed super-legit, was saying things that seemed legit to my location and counter-productive to a catfisher, but ultimately would not show me a selfie of herself in the place and time she said she was in, and after a few days said that her birthday was coming up and she could not get work off... and would make her feel better if I bought her a gift card... and then it basically became all about that. She then showed me a photo of a local Walmart receipt with an iTunes gift card with the number scratched off, I'm guessing from some sucker that bought it and showed it to "her" (him?). I later determined that the phone texts were coming from a computer from another country... and I'm debating sending all of this info to police, but I don't know if that's really worth it.
Thoughts? Please leave your scammer notes here because I want to better identify them before it's too late. Thanks!