What I've been up to …

Last Wednesday morning (about 6.15am!), while I was doing my “farming” on Farmville, I was greeted by Howard on FB chat. Howard lives in the States. No doubt we are friends and even neighbours in Farmville, we had never chatted  online before.

(BTW, I met Howard for the first time in Acheh. It turned out that Howard used to work in Kelantan. See his comments here).

Anyway, here are the screen captures of that morning chat on Facebook:

I was sceptical about this, didn’t think Howard could be that desperate to ask me for financial help.  I was thinking, “I am sure Howard has other close associates whom he can ask for such help”.

On the other hand, I thought, WHAT IF it was a genuine call for help? What kind of friend am I?

DH was about to leave for a day trip to Langkawi, but he kept on reminding me not to at any circumstances agree to give “Howard” any money online. DH said it could not be Howard.

Then it occurred to me to check Howard’s FB status:

How could Howard be in such predicament and had the time to play Farmville? And how come Howard never put in his status as something to indicate that he was in dire need of help?

I decided to ignore that chat, and turned my status to “offline”.

Not long before that I saw a notification on Howard’s latest status:

Ah, phew! So, the chat was not with the real Howard.

So my friends, beware of Impostors on Facebook!

On a lighter note, Howard didn’t terminate his account. He changed his password, and reported the incident to FB. He still is one of my neighbours on Farmville .

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