A few weeks ago I got an unexpected text message from an old acquaintance. We hadn’t talked in a few years and I had no idea why she was reaching out. She said she had something really important to tell me, and wanted to meet up in person to discuss it.
At first, I assumed she wanted to catch up and catch up with me.
I hadn’t seen her since poly, and I was excited to see what she’d been up to all these years. But as I drove to the meeting place, my excitement quickly turned to suspicion.
When I arrived, I was greeted by a woman I didn’t recognize. She introduced herself as the friend’s business partner and said that my friend had asked her to meet me.
My suspicions were confirmed when she asked me to join her MLM company. She said it was an amazing opportunity and that I had a great chance of making a lot of money. She was very convincing and I almost said yes.
But then I remembered why I had gotten the text message in the first place. I asked her if my friend had sent her to ask me out on a date, and she admitted that it was a ruse. She said that my friend had asked her to pretend to ask me out so that she could try and sell me on her MLM company.
I was pissed off! I felt like a fool for believing that my old acquaintance wanted to catch up with me. I thanked the woman for her time, turned down her offer, and left.
As I drove home, I realized that I had been taken advantage of. Although the woman had been convincing in her sales pitch, I should have known better than to fall for it. I was angry with myself for not seeing through the ruse and disappointed that my old acquaintance had used me this way.
At the same time, I was also thankful that I hadn’t been scammed out of any money. I knew that if I had said yes, I could have easily been taken advantage of and lost a lot of money.