5000 Miles Away

[ErosWired]

I received today from A4A yet another of those messages from a guy, asking me to unlock my private photos. No message, just “[user] has asked to unlock private photo/video”. Partial face pic of a young man, profile icon features U.S. flags, age listed as 23. Profile filled out, but says he’s new and “looking for communication”. Yeah.

Distance: 5,134 miles away.

That’s 8,262.37km if you’re metrically inclined, as he almost certainly is.

 I thought, assuming the app is even anything like accurate at global distances, I wondered, where, then, could he possibly be?

Easy enough - get GIS software and create a 5,134-mile-radius circle around my location. Result - he is:

a) In the middle of Siberia

b) On the extreme northernmost tip of Greenland

c) On Urup, one of the disputed Kuril Islands off the northern Japanese coast

d) In the Marshall Islands, near Majuro

e) In South America, somewhere more or less on a line between Concepción, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina

f) In west-central Africa in Gabon, Cameroon, Chad or Egypt (Cairo’s closest)

g) On the island of Cyprus

h) In the middle of Turkey east of Ankara

i) In Ukraine near Donetsk

j) On the island of Svalbard in the Russian Arctic

k) On a ship in the mid-Pacific, south Atlantic, eastern Mediterranean, Black Sea, or the Sea of Azov (Hellooo sailor!)

or

l) Just east of Moscow.
 

I’m guessing... Russian troll, not the Arctic variety. I have to say, though, that I was surprised how many actual places the ring crossed, especially at sea. Imagine if he had been real and not a scambot - it just goes to show that there is fuck potential everywhere you look...

 

[steve-tmq]

I live on an Greek island and even though lots of people come to holiday each summer it is hard to find a fuck.  Not even people in Athens wont to may the 1 hour boat trip.    So I can ether look at porn and see people that are hand picked for the porn potential or look at dating sites where I get to see "real" people.  So the dating sites is what I chose and I may get a contact as well.   So if I see a body I like I will often ask to see pics even though there is not chance of meeting them.  If this feels like being used I am sorry and I do not take afence if someone decliens to share.  I am in your 5000 mile ring.