Does this strike anyone else as odd ... or is it just me?

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I sent a message to a girl on a dating site simply telling her I found her attractive and interesting and that id love to chat with her...

she replies with her first name and a phone number to call her right off the bat.

Since this has never happened before I get cautious. So I start to research just in case.

-Her area code is not on my local area but of one adjacent to it (so its probably a cellphone).

-The dating site has an option that lets you see who has viewed your profile in the past 48 hours.. and she is not listed there. So she just receives a message out the blue and replies with her phone # without seeing the person's profile?

-the site profiles her age as being 2 years younger than what she posted on her description..and in the description she states the age is not updating correctly on the website 'for some reason' .... so I went into the settings and changed my birth date a couple times and checked ... it does update correctly.

-Her profile only has one photo of herself.
-Her username phonetically spells out 'ugly asian' (and shes very pretty).

-image search engines do not match to her any model/actress so its probably not a false pic.

... and she states she loves the tv show dexter .. *drumroll* lol... eek.


Thoughts?

Screams suspicion. Don't do it is my opinion.

You tell her to call you. If she's comes up with a excuse just leave her behind you. If she calls and turn out to be a normal person, grats. If it's a scam and she wants you to do things for her straight away just hang up.

so give her your number and let's see what happens.

I'd ignore it.

I bet she's a man.

Sounds to me like she might be cruising for paid phone calls. I'd do as mentioned above: Have her call you or completely ignore it.

She (or possibly he) could be browsing anonymously, most sites have this feature.

I would call her If you're really interested, but if she asks you for anything material hang up and forget the whole thing.

Just my US$0.02 ...

Nah, the number is not a pay-to-call number I know that from the area code... but I do consider the probability of someone getting my home phone number for shady stuff hence why I'll first call her from a public phone. That will also help verify gender (lol).

The site has no anonymous browsing feature.

What do you lose by calling her? At the very worst you have a good story to share.

If you call her, do it on a public phone. I would never give my number to someone unless I had been talking to them a bit. There are some crazy people on dating sites.

Nothing wrong with Dexter though.

Call her and make judgement from that conversation. It could be shes desperate for company. If its a scam/man/whatever just hang up.

thanks hale

Post her profile so we can have a look at it.

I would make an excuse to not call her. Say that my phone is low on minutes or something & suggest chatting on the site, email or IM instead. If she gets mad or doesn't reply; chances are it's some kinda scammer. It's not a good idea to give out your number online to a stranger like that