It might be just an actual real person, who’s chosen this method not realizing that it is abusive to talk with everyone with their pitch for money and friendship, on a network this large. Or, more likely, it’s a scammer who is figuring that it’ll work better to use a photo of a real-looking person instead of an obvious catfish hot girl.

(I’m not actually convinced, I would assume that the same type of person who falls for this stuff is also more lizard-brain-driven and will react more strongly to a hot person texting them regardless of how much sense it makes.)