The image in the post is the actual scam, you can see the fake hyperlink as well.
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Rothe@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
How did the scammer in the picture know that it was this specific person who did it, out of the thousands they daily spam with their message?
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes, but even assuming the origin number was real (it almost certainly isn’t), they spammed countless others. If they got counter spammed, they’d have no inking which victim caused it to happen. Unless the person told them, which according to the picture didn’t happen. Or they told the Craigslist people his own real number to let the spammer know who sent them, which seems like an even worse idea.
It is a fake story.
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Well yes, that’s my point. It was not an image of the reply.
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The image includes a subsequent “what have you done?” which even if you believed everything else, would not have happened.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
And most scammers use spoofed numbers anyway. The number you see isn’t the one they’re actually calling from.
So the random number you put on the Craigslist ad is probably either a dead number, or belongs to some random innocent person who has no idea why their phone is suddenly blowing up.