A scam that sounds like a nice old lady

First time I have heard of this - so thanks for letting us know

A few years ago some of us who do use the Breast Cancer Care website had a very similar message to this one sent to us via private message. As here anyone who joins the site can then private message members. A dying lady wanted to donate money. All we needed to do was provide our bank details! None of us who were contacted were fooled and Breast Cancer Care banned the user but some were quite shaken. And we were all patients with enough on our plates at the time.
It's not the only time I have received a scam message via pm on Breast Cancer Care, it's happened a few times.

Meant to add in this instance I was also sent contact details via Nigeria.

That sounds like the same scam. They will try anything to get at our money!

I think I also had a similar misleading invite but this one through Linked-in.

I got an email saying that someone called Michael Riggs wanted me to link with him through Linked in. I do not know anyone of that name and, anyway, I am not on Linked-in, so I deleted the email. Two days later I received another invitation to link with Michael Riggs. This time it included a photo of a young good-looking military man. The pose and uniform suggested it was US army and probably some graduation picture. There was also a link to click saying 'How do I know Michael Riggs'. Needless to say, I didn't click but, again, deleted it.

I was conscious that these are the kind of invites which in the past week have been successful in luring lonely middle-aged women to part with money to plausible fraudsters, posing as attractive young men.

That's interesting Flick, about the military/graduation photo, because on my Skype account I've had quite a few similar men wanting to 'chat'!
They are always American though, and usually Generals!

I've changed my profile pic several times but they still keep coming, so it's not my looks that's attracting them!

I had a succession of US generals wanting to chat to me on Skype, too. I thought it might be because my Skype username included my birth year (39) and they wre hoping for a 39-year-old, instead of a 75 year old. Perhaps they were more subtle than that and planned to con an old lady into financing a toy boy.

We've had letters from nurses from (non existent)nursing schools in Nigeria saying they need money to continue ther training. The stamps are pretty though.

The photo I got suggested he was fresh from West Point. Young enough to be my grandson.