It is not really uncommon to run across people half-way around the globe who know someone you know or is related to someone you know. I have frequently had that happen.VMI77 wrote:
I actually got the sequence of events out of order in the second paragraph. He actually volunteered first that he went to HS in Port Isabel and my wife told him I went there too.
One small example was the first time I ever went to Dallas (was living in Missouri at the time). A group of us went into a western store in a mall to look at some boots. When the store clerk asked where we were all from, one guys says 'Minnesota', another says 'Kansas', and one of the other guys says the little city and state in Missouri. She says 'I know where that is'. I tell here the town where I am from and she says 'So am I!'. She told me her name, and I said 'Well, I know your little sister and your parents. I am Keith Bxxxx'. She says 'I know your Mom; she was my girl scout troop leader.'
Another time in Germany I ended up sitting beside my best friends cousin while riding on a train between Kaiserslautern and Frankfurt.
Just recently I was looking on Facebook and realized my wife's cousin from Florida was on the same river cruise in France with really good friends of mine from Dallas. They didn't know each other, but I told them both to look each other up at dinner. They were sitting at tables next to each other on the cruise.
So, Six Degrees of Separation is a pretty real thing. But you can quickly break down when someone it trying to scam you by doing just a little review and know they are not telling the truth.