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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.
It's known, recently, as the "pig butchering" scam, and this is the telltale opener. The idea is that you respond with "hey, you've got the wrong number" and they can then open a dialog of "oh, sorry about that" and then spend weeks or months just conversing with you casually to build a "heh, what a crazy way to meet a new friend" sorta relationship. Eventually, they spring some kinda ask for money or malware on you, because they earned your trust.
Give it a google, it's pretty fucked up, and completely counter-intuitive how effective and profitable it is.
The last time I got one of these, I pretend to be exactly the person they were pretenting to wrong-number.
Lol this would not work on my misanthropic ass.
"Some bullshit"
"Sorry, wrong number"
"Oh haha weird, well I'm going to continue to talk to you and try and meet a new friend"
"Fuck off prick I'm busy."
Obligatory John Oliver link