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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Interesting way to deal with scammer, but then sometime they spoof their number so the victim got double victimised.

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  • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There was a period where I kept getting phone calls from people angrily asking me to stop calling them. I think a scammer was spoofing my number :/

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    • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Same here. I’ve had multiple angry texts and calls from people I’ve never contacted before.

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, i too get a phone call with people asking why i’m calling them, they sounds annoyed.

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    • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I got a few of those. One memorable one in particular was from a guy that was raging hard.

      “If you don’t stop fucking calling me, I’m going to come to your house and kill your whole family.”

      Okay, chill dude… I’m not doing it. Clearly someone is faking my number. Just block me and move on.

      “NO! I’M SICK OF MY PHONE RINGING ALL DAY LONG! YOU NEED TO STOP OR WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IS YOUR FAULT!!!”

      Okay… So I’m gonna go ahead and call the police now… Have a better day, man.

      It was like the start of a damn horror story.

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• rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  how would scammer know its them?

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was thinking the same thing

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    • bran_buckler@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What? Like a scammer would message multiple people and not just me personally?

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• Rothe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • RogueBanana@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The image in the post is the actual scam, you can see the fake hyperlink as well.

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    • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They don’t use their own number

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  • Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep, its a spoof number. So practices like this are dumb and only hurt a regular person not involved

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• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This won’t work they just spoof other peoples numbers so you’re fucking over other people.

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  • AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t do this, scammers spoof the ANI to look like a lagitamate number from your area because people are more likely to click, so you will bed sending to a real person not the scammers (if the number is in use). If enough people complain about you, your carrier might kill your service or other carriers mighty block you. Also since your making fake listings you could end up with the cops involved.

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    • gwulgg@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      lol the cops will absolutely not get involved if you throw up a fake listing on Craigslist wtf are you talking about?

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• Tiral@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Rofl “what have you done?”

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• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I prefer to report the website to their registrar and their hosting provider. I’m in the US so reporting to the FTC is fun, and the UK’s version of the same agency (can’t remember its name) is excellent as they’ll get the website taken offline quick.

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For the USA here’s a useful link: https://www.donotcall.gov/report.html

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• krisevol@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They usually use phone number spoofers. You are just fucking with some innocent persons number lol

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• Aiz@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  wouldn’t know it was them specifically

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A .-com domain? How can that work?

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  • RogueBanana@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Assuming it’s an actual question, it’s a fake hyperlink. The - will prevent the app recognising a link and processing it, either for adding the hyperlink automatically or maybe scanning the domain.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Why is it blue then?

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• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just give them a bunch of new potential victims?

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  • rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    would you feel bad for them if that number was attached to a listing like “free labubus at [nonexistent address], personal pickup only”

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