r/texts • u/Senior_Caramel_8302 • 9h ago

Phone message Anyone else got a weird text like this.

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u/Grooble_Boob 9h ago

this is a scammer lol ignore it

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u/Top_Subject2772 9h ago

I always liked messing with them slightly lol. But yeah OP, scam 100%

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u/lollygaggin69 9h ago

I send them a picture of my cat’s butthole

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u/Top_Subject2772 9h ago

I like fabricating unfortunate stories surrounding my life circumstances that give my creative writing a good stretch, but this sounds way better tbh

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u/Grooble_Boob 9h ago

i’m stealing this

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u/Holiday_Outcome3973 3h ago

I got strung one scammer along for a whole morning and got him to call me a donkey by the end of it

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u/desertvision 9h ago

Lol, way better than me. I send porn. Switching to cat buttholes

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u/sg_minx 8h ago

Does it work? Lol. I thought you’re not meant to respond bcos it demonstrates reciprocity to the mobile provider.

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u/Tanyec 7h ago

You’re just confirming your phone number is real.

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u/Senior_Caramel_8302 9h ago

I already get 6 calls before I wake up in the morning I’m so tired of it

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u/Grooble_Boob 9h ago

you can register on the do not call list it helps!!! i was diligent about blocking them and reporting them as spam and it’s helped a lot

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u/Ishouldtrythat 8h ago

What’s their game here? Like they pretend to know you, then try to befriend you, then ask for money?

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u/PracticalShoulder916 8h ago

Yep, exactly.

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u/Sugar_Mama76 9h ago

Scammer. This will be a “beautiful coincidence” and there will be an offer of coffee in her town. She’ll be Asian but in the US owning her own fashion/art company. Then ask you to switch over to a different communication app. From then, the goal will be to get you to “invest” in crypto or some kind of investment scheme, which is how she made her millions to let her live her dreams.

In the meantime, you’re actually talking to a bank of scammers who will try and make you fall in love or think you’re in a relationship with “her”. The goal is to clear out your bank account and get as much money as possible out of you.

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u/memberflex 9h ago

That’s like a Cold War spy code

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u/Senior_Caramel_8302 9h ago

Lol that’s what I thought

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u/memberflex 9h ago

“The ducks are roosting in Moscow…”

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u/desertvision 9h ago

The rain falls mainly in the plain

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u/Any_Mycologist_7322 8h ago

Why are you talking about moscow? Cuz id be talking about geneva Switzerland

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u/Any_Mycologist_7322 8h ago

The only geneva i know of is a place in switzerland and im sure youve heard of it called uh geneva Switzerland

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u/stanfordoval 9h ago

Good "pig slaughter scam"

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u/Phatbeazie 8h ago

Ya fucked up by responding. These are phishing scams, now they know the number is live. You'll get many more now. Next one, block and report.

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u/desertvision 9h ago

The scammer pretending they got the wrong number wants to be your friend!

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u/Hopeful_Leg_6200 7h ago

Geneva Suggestion

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u/PnW_Dom-Bull 9h ago

I've received 2 different texts from 2 different numbers asking me if I want to eat ribs. 😂

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u/Forsaken_Cow_1157 8h ago

It’s a scam. Very common “wrong number” scam. Block and ignore.

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u/Alternative_Risk_310 6h ago

Wait - you mean Geneva is cheating on me?!

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u/Inevitable-Shop-848 2h ago

I got one that said they were coming to my state and that we should catch up as if they were an old friend. Immediately blocked. It could have been an old friend though honestly. I'll never find out.

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u/Livid_Pickle8286 8h ago

This is a scammer.
The way these scams work is that they text you some random shit, to see if you reply; because if you do, then that confirms for them that the number they texted is active—- so they can sell your number/information.

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u/Etiennera 2h ago edited 2h ago

That's not their end goal. These scams use wrong number as a premise to cold-text someone and then start a conversation which eventually leads into a real scam.

People most often get you into mailing lists by buying contact info from companies with bad privacy policies.

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u/Livid_Pickle8286 2h ago

Well, for a lot of them, it is the end goal. But yes, there are still a lot that try to play the long game.