Comment on How to fight text message spam

Makhno@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Actually this one’s believable. The script typically follows:

  “Do you want to go golfing this weekend” “Are you coming to the bbq Saturday” “Hey this is so-and-so” Etc.

  And if you reply “who is this” or whatever to that effect the bot will say “Oh I’m sorry” or something like that. Then later follow up with a “my names _____” usually followed by a picture of an Asian woman, and then an attempt to “get to know” who the bot is talking to.

  The whole mistaken identity bs to establish a dialog and try to form a connection with a random stranger to scam them.

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mine was named Alice. She insisted I need to use her sketchy crypto trading platform and she would be my sponsor. I insisted that the site needed her to deposit BTC to a specific wallet before it would let me. I think I eventually got blocked.

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  • Dhs92@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Typically following this pattern iirc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam

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• Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have a nive day.

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