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Yeah potentially an MLM, religion or cult. The initial introduction has parallels to "flirty fishing" [1] and "love bombing" [2] which are known cult tactics. T
by drawkbox 5y ago
Yeah potentially an MLM, religion or cult. The initial introduction has parallels to "flirty fishing" [1] and "love bombing" [2] which are known cult tactics. The extreme end of that is sexpionage but the early side of that is finding a single male that may have some money or influence and using that to corral them into their group, whatever that group it. This is extremely common in espionage as well if anyone works in highly sensitive or technical areas.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirty_Fishing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirty_Fishing
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoI suspect a TLA did this to me during a background investigation. A woman (as far as I knew) divulged she was Iranian and solicited my opinion.
- xur17 5y agoWhat is TLA?
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoThree letter acronym. Aka, CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.
- pacificmint 5y agoI’ve always heard it as “Three letter Agency”, when used in this context specifically.
- walrus01 5y agoDid you submit a SF-86 to the OPM and were in the process of going through the formal background investigation at that time?
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoThis was before the OPM breach.
- walrus01 5y agoyes, but what I mean is there's the non zero possibility that some part of the background investigation did send a person to try to get your opinion on Iran, not a data leak, but an actual TLA-adjacent person.
- throwaway81523 5y agoI was a member of the L-5 Society (spaceflight enthusiasts) back in the day. There was a guy who came to our meetings who we were pretty sure was an actual Russian agent. He kept asking what we knew about US military space programs (we knew nothing that wasn't in the newspapers) while pressing buttons in his briefcase. We found it amusing.
- tippytippytango 5y agolol that sounds like a comedy sketch