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How can I tell if the person I'm talking to on Twitter is legit? That they are who they say they are?
 

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If they do not have a blue check mark you can't, unless their tweets reveal personal information only the person would know. But even then it only increases the probability and does not provide a definitive answer. I am certain twitter can do IP tracing or provide the information to law enforcement if necessary to locate the phone or PC the tweets came from but this is not something you could do.
 

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I'll give you a condensed version of what happened.

One of my guilty pleasures is that I'm a professional wrestling fan. Have been for many years.

You all know how Twitter works. You can follow various people.

One of the WWE female wrestlers I'm following tweets me. We talk for a bit. Then, she says she wants me to download an app on my phone called Hangout, which I've never even heard of. I am not a techie at all. She says we can talk more if I do this. She'll send a pic of herself and I can send a pic of myself on my phone. However, I have to download Hangout first. This is where I get suspicious.

To make a long story short, I blocked her today. Hopefully, I won't be hearing from her again.
 

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I'll give you a condensed version of what happened.

One of my guilty pleasures is that I'm a professional wrestling fan. Have been for many years.

You all know how Twitter works. You can follow various people.

One of the WWE female wrestlers I'm following tweets me. We talk for a bit. Then, she says she wants me to download an app on my phone called Hangout, which I've never even heard of. I am not a techie at all. She says we can talk more if I do this. She'll send a pic of herself and I can send a pic of myself on my phone. However, I have to download Hangout first. This is where I get suspicious.

To make a long story short, I blocked her today. Hopefully, I won't be hearing from her again.

Hangouts is a chatting app made by Google. It's legit but you can be spammed to death if you start talking to people that you shouldn't be. Probably a smart move to block 'her' as 'her' real name is most likely Siddharth or Pratyush. ;)
 

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Hangouts is a chatting app made by Google. It's legit but you can be spammed to death if you start talking to people that you shouldn't be. Probably a smart move to block 'her' as 'her' real name is most likely Siddharth or Pratyush. ;)

That was another give away. Her tweets to me omitted various words. It's as if English was not her first language

Should I report her?
 

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I'll give you a condensed version of what happened.

One of my guilty pleasures is that I'm a professional wrestling fan. Have been for many years.

You all know how Twitter works. You can follow various people.

One of the WWE female wrestlers I'm following tweets me. We talk for a bit. Then, she says she wants me to download an app on my phone called Hangout, which I've never even heard of. I am not a techie at all. She says we can talk more if I do this. She'll send a pic of herself and I can send a pic of myself on my phone. However, I have to download Hangout first. This is where I get suspicious.

To make a long story short, I blocked her today. Hopefully, I won't be hearing from her again.

Does she have the checkmark on her profile?
 

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All of the WWE wrestlers on Twitter have the upper case letters WWE on their Twitter addresses.
 

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That was another give away. Her tweets to me omitted various words. It's as if English was not her first language

Should I report her?
I'm on a dating site and I've learned to tell where a member is from by the way they write. Russians are easiest to spot. If you can read her posts with Natasha's voice, from Rocky and Bullwinkle, she's probably Russian.
 

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I'm on a dating site and I've learned to tell where a member is from by the way they write. Russians are easiest to spot. If you can read her posts with Natasha's voice, from Rocky and Bullwinkle, she's probably Russian.

I couldn't tell where she was from. All I know is that words were omitted from her tweets. If this was the real person I was talking to, all of the words would have been there.
 

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Hangouts is a chatting app made by Google. It's legit but you can be spammed to death if you start talking to people that you shouldn't be. Probably a smart move to block 'her' as 'her' real name is most likely Siddharth or Pratyush. ;)
Sounds like a pervert guy acting like female wrestler....Dont do it...Sounds similar to THIN MAN and BIG BLUE WHALE. They talk to naive teens to tell them secrets or give naked pics and then they blackmail them. The sicker ones got the kids so messed up to kill a friend or hang themselves.
 

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I couldn't tell where she was from. All I know is that words were omitted from her tweets. If this was the real person I was talking to, all of the words would have been there.
Russians tend to omit a lot of pronouns. "Give to me, I will take to authorities."
 

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I couldn't tell where she was from. All I know is that words were omitted from her tweets. If this was the real person I was talking to, all of the words would have been there.
Some of the female wrestlers are married or in relationships. Sasha Banks is married, Charlotte Flair dates Andrade,Zulena is with that tattoo guy that sits in the ring. .....who was the wrestler?
 
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