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Do you think this scammer just hopes they will, with luck, contact someone named Annie who does yoga? (lemmy.world)
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For the record, I'm a man whose name is not Annie and I don't even like yoga.

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[โ€“] MTK@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Could also be a "ping" where they send this text to a lot of numbers, and those that respond get recorded as "alive"

Then they can either:

  • Do some recon on the number for spear phishing
  • Save money by aiming the bigger part of the campaign (possibly multiple or large texts) only towards online numbers
  • Some other reason ๐Ÿคท