My attempted cult recruitment

Re:My attempted cult recruitment by drawkbox on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @05:17PM (#30925164)

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing

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Re:My attempted cult recruitment by throwaway81523 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:20PM (#30926419)

I 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.

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Re:My attempted cult recruitment by tippytippytango on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @03:22AM (#30929373)

lol that sounds like a comedy sketch

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Re:My attempted cult recruitment by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @05:26PM (#30925253)

I 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.

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Re:My attempted cult recruitment by walrus01 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:55PM (#30926193)

Did you submit a SF-86 to the OPM and were in the process of going through the formal background investigation at that time?

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Re:My attempted cult recruitment by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:59PM (#30926224)

This was before the OPM breach.

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Re:My attempted cult recruitment by walrus01 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:03PM (#30926261)

yes, 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.

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Re:My attempted cult recruitment by xur17 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @05:51PM (#30925511)

What is TLA?

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Re:My attempted cult recruitment by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @05:55PM (#30925557)

Three letter acronym. Aka, CIA, FBI, NSA, etc.

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Re:My attempted cult recruitment by pacificmint on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:57PM (#30926704)

I’ve always heard it as “Three letter Agency”, when used in this context specifically.

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