Bellevue scam artist

TLDR: there’s a middle aged looking guy picking ppl up at the QFC to be “friends” but is actually a scammer.

So I was doing my reg grocery shopping at QFC, when this really unassuming friendly guy asked me about the design on my shirt, and we started talking. It seemed like a really friendly and harmless conversation, so I agreed to exchange contact info so we could talk more about 3D printing and stuff like that. He told me his name was Lashari and he works at Microsoft as their engineering manager. The next morning, he texted asking if I wanted to be his business partner, since he was looking to open a coffee shop/bakery. I told him I’m too poor + inexperienced to do smth like that, and he responded with “don’t worry, I have plenty of money :)”. So yeah. Red flags.

Had a friend at Microsoft look him up in the employee directory, and he does not exist. Same friend went to the “same college” as him, looked him up in that directory too, he didn’t pop up. He also has a fake empty linkedin account lol

Just thought I’d post in here to be wary of someone matching the same description! He might change some details around though.

I was excited to make a new friend and thought I had a good initial red flag detector, but I guess not 😅 Hoping this saves someone else the trouble of having to talk to this dude.