Adam Curry Cybersex Impersonation Attempt on Facebook
Adam Curry recounts a recent incident where an impersonator on Facebook attempted to engage him in cybersex by posing as a famous Dutch television personality he knew from the 1980s. Curry realized the interaction was fraudulent after contacting the real individual via email, who confirmed she did not have a Facebook account. He describes the encounter as a potential setup or attempt to humiliate him.
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00:00 Yeah, we'll hit it. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, November 28th, 2013, time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 5, S'wassanna! This is no agenda. And today I am thankful for your courage. From the Travis Heights Hideout in Austin, Texas, in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And, whoops, from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's crackpot and buzzkill in the morning. What did you lose your script? No, I was just looking at the Twitter because I tweeted right after you tweeted that we're on the air. Yeah. Then I noticed that there's a post by me that I'd never posted. Really?
00:46 Yeah, it's funny you mentioned this because yesterday and now miss Mickey is gone So I'm all alone here and I'm you know, I'm just what I do is I basically bring everything into the studio I don't need anything else. I don't need a house. We got that. I got the aero bed I mean, I'm living in the studio and you know I check Facebook to see if she's posted any pictures from from the gig that she's doing in Los Angeles and And all of a sudden I get a bloop. I get an instant message from this girl. Remember the girl that was at the reunion? I told you the reunion, the radio reunion in Amsterdam? No. You didn't tell me anything about a radio reunion, about the girl. Yes we did. I told you I had a reunion and one of the girls who was there was our assistant back in the 80s but she's now this huge television personality. How big is she?
01:41 Right. Well, she's very famous. Let's put it that way. Oh, I see what you're saying. I'm sorry. I misunderstood. Right. And because, of course, I've been working out, doing this spin class for a couple months, I look... Oh, now you're changing the story. No, no, no, no, no. This was the entire reason to say yes. Because I knew all these people would be... To go to the reunion. Okay. Because I knew all these people would be overweight and wrinkled. I'm like, this is great. I'm going to walk in and go, hey. Yeah, you're gonna be looking good. That's right. Look at my girlish figure. So she was there and she's seriously a huge celebrity now. Like really, I told you this, like Oprah level almost. Okay. And for Holland, which isn't saying that much. No, it's a big deal. So, you know, it was great catching up with her. She literally could not keep her hands off of me. Understandable.
02:35 So Mickey I guess is flying to LA so she can't hear any of this. Oh no, Mickey's the one that said it's okay as long as you don't put more than the tip in it's okay. Welcome to the show ladies and gentlemen, you've not heard Noah Gentry before you're confused. But the point is, so I get this instant message from her saying something which is actually relevant to the conversation we had at this reunion and I'm like yeah and then and all of a sudden she's like trying to cybersex me. I'm like, hold on a second. Seriously, you know, like, hey, I'm not kidding. And I'm like, well, this is weird. And so I'm like real cagey. I'm like, what are you talking about?
03:23 She's like, you know what I'm good at. You know what I'm good at. I'm like, what do you mean? Why don't you tell me what you're good at? And it was back and forth. I'm like, okay, this is weird. So I email her. This is IMs or how are you doing this? I think it pops up as a message on. So yeah, I think it's like a Facebook. What kind of cybersex of these pop up messages? I know. And I'm like, this is whatever you're planning. I'm certainly not going to do it on Facebook. Yeah, so I email her and I say, is this you? Maybe she's got one of those shows to just humiliate people. Well, you know, I think something like that was going on because I emailed her and she says, no, I don't even have a Facebook account. I'm like, well, you may want to check this because it sure looks like your Facebook account and you're cyber-sexing me. Oh, somebody was trying to set you up. Yes, exactly.
04:10 And I was not having it, which I'm very happy about. Because you know how easy it is to be like, yeah baby, what are you wearing? I mean, you know me. Look at Currie, what a douchebag. You know how easy it would be to trick me really into doing that. I'd be like, yeah, yeah, cool. So, whew, dodged a bullet and I'm thankful for it. There you go, long way to go. But hey everybody. It is of course Thanksgiving Day, also Happy Hanukkah. Which I think happens once every 10,000 years that Hanukkah falls on Thanksgiving. So not quite sure how that works. I don't know what it means, but it means something. I had a lot of people email me over, and I want to mention this before I forget, about, what's your turkey recipe? How are you going to have a special turkey recipe? You're going to send one out? Really?
