I received the following message by email (from susan05w@outlook.com):
Hello,
you got a nice profile and i really like your profile and i feel it would be nice to get to know you more better.
Here is my email address: (susanw42@yahoo.com)
I have something very important to discuss with you privately.
hope to hear from you soon.
Sussan & Desmond Williams
I checked it online, and it's a known romance scam message, word for word identical, even the same email address to contact them. DO NOT RESPOND! Because they used WikiTree private messaging from your own profile, they do not have your email address. *If* you respond, you have given them your email address yourself!
The message indicates it came from someone with profile https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Dud-2, which returns a Page 404 error, so someone at WikiTree is on the ball, canceling phony pages like this. However, they clearly are starting phony pages to send these scam emails, so I don't think that will stop them. Expect to see other 'Dud' profiles.
Edit: already reported elsewhere.
Edit2: On a personal note, this was particularly cruel, came at a particularly vulnerable moment, desperately wishing even one person anywhere could take even a small interest in me. But anything that seems too good to be true, usually is not true, and I always investigate first. As always, I'll use my extreme distractibility to carry on.
