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Do you think this scammer just hopes they will, with luck, contact someone named Annie who does yoga?
(lemmy.world)
For the record, I'm a man whose name is not Annie and I don't even like yoga.
Bud, not everything is a scam. Sometimes people just get high and type in the wrong number.
Yeah nah, you can safely assume all texts like these are scams.
Nah. I get these too. Once every few weeks, always from a different number. They're just looking for a response.
The chances of somebody actually typing a number to send a message (rather than choosing a contact) is vanishingly slim these days. It would have to be the first time they ever communicated with the other person.
It's a scam. If you respond "wrong number" then you get "oh, I was looking for Annie, who is this?" Then try to bait you into something.
Sometimes it becomes trading nudes then turns into sextortion, sometimes it is asking for an apple gift card so they can come visit, it is just a way to get any response and then work from there.
It can be, certainly. But people do change numbers, and others try to recconect with old acquaintances, if you recently changed numbers, it might not be a scam. But as always, but wary of pig butchering.
The 929 area code is in Brooklyn, NY. Are you saying they accidentally texted my California area code number to ask me if I wanted to go to Yoga with them?
Edit: Incidentally, people all over the country apparently accidentally text me random shit a lot-
My guess is that your number is either, by random chance, or means of some kind of app or something, being used as a fake number for girls to use to get rid of obnoxious guys at bars, or something similar.
Oooorrrr its a kind of pig butchering scam thing, where somehow your number got flagged as some kind of potential mark, so a whole bunch of random numbers are either bots or people following a script just throwing out random bullshit to see if you ever bite.
Its a phishing scam. If you respond "sorry who is this" and they have their in. 1 out of 1000 will fall for it. But they run a lot of numbers at once. The ones that do get suckered can lose a lot of money.
Wow, pig butchering is mad in the US now, I have received maybe two in the last year, dayum.
I have no idea what kind of weird shit you fell into Bud. But if it's recurring like that over and over again then they're just testing to see if you're alive and the phone number is active. Which is really weird.
With today's a modern society, it's not unusual at all to have people with out-of-state phone numbers live next door. I've had the same phone number for myself for over 15 years. They don't make you change it when you move.
Well considering someone else said this was a topic John Oliver covered, I don't think it's just me.
I don't think it's just you. I think you fell into some weird shit. I'm a strong believer in Occomms razor. The simplest solution is normally the best. As you provide more information, what I believe the simplest solution is changes.
Again, if this is a big enough deal that John Oliver devoted one of his shows to it, I don't think it's as weird as you're making out.
Oh yes, because it's perfectly normal to be harassed by unknown phone numbers, nothing weird about that. Just because it's happening to enough people to get on TV doesn't mean that the situation you're going through is normal....
I see you don't know anything about John Oliver's show.
He's my favorite collector of rat erotica https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Up_Late. I'm very much aware of the show. I think we are having a definition issue. I am not calling you. Weird. I'm calling the fact that you are being cold texted weird. Weird as in. That's unusual and slightly concerning . Clearly there is a known scam. So at some point your number has leaked to these scammers or been sold to them through some type of list.
I get these too. Thousands of people do. Every day. Its a scatter shot approach to text scamming. They dial a number, and they add one to the next number they call.
867-5309 867-5310 867-5311 Simple right?
Why are you making this so wierd?
,You're 7 hours late and you're clearly lost. If the link is going over your head you might need to watch more. John Oliver. I think it's pretty weird that you and these thousands of other people are having to deal with this problem. I mean I'm aware that signaling system 7 is complete garbage and that theres vendors facilitating bad actors but this large drag net scamming seems like it could very easily be stoped with minimal effort by most large phone providers working to actively block the bad actors.
And you're a troll, or some sort of self rightious cunt trying to be facetious for your own entertainment. I dont have time for your contrarian bullshit. Neither do the rest of us. Go back to your cave and pleasure yourself in your own mental superiority. The rest of us live in a world where stupid shit happens, and we deal with it and complain about it without being smug assholes.
In full sincerity, I bid you good day, you useless fuck.
Excuse me for being clueless about a topic that doesn't affect me and genuinely noneplused that it's even a problem that exists in the first place. My original comment was a joke because I have definitely texted the wrong person while stoned before.
It's pretty common, they use bots to text thousands of random numbers hoping for a single reply.
Go through your spam text folder, I bet you'll find one or two at least (when it's not election season)
Sometimes I text a wrong number on purpose, just because Im lonely and want someone to talk to.