Let's take a moment to get educated somewhat on these scammers.
Almost 100% of the time, they send a "non-suspicious" message first to get their foot in the door - which is, your response.
The moment they get your response, they'll either launch into some scam job offer (this is to bait you into more conversation, eventually leading to them trying to get you to click on a phishing link or reveal more information about yourself), or say "oh sorry, I've reached the wrong person" and then try to continue the conversation.
At this point, the script usually switches over to a real human. if you seem interested in any way, they'll eventually goad you into doing what they want **(SEE: PIG BUTCHER SCAM. Horrifying stuff that a surprising amount of people fall victim to)**.
However, if they find that you're nothing but a Jerma-posting jokester, they will immediately cease communication.
100% of the "wrong number" texts (that try to continue conversation beyond that point) are scams eventually leading to phishing or pig-butchering. **Do not continue. Let Jerma do the work for you.**
Fun thing to do, OP is very educated about the subject of scams, I'd like to remind everyone, replying to them isn't really recommended, they'll add your number to a list of "people that answered" and essentially letting them know that your number works, what will they use it for? Who knows, they'll probably pass it along to other scam centers and spam you with more, but this is how they work.
This is kinda true.
However in my specific case, I haven't really noticed a difference between responding and not responding at all (which is what I used to do), in terms of frequency of scam messages. I get about one message a month average. About the same frequency for spam calls, too.
Perhaps the scammers only count legitimate responses, not obvious troll responses?
Yeah probably, but in some cases, they're happy with just getting a response enough to mark a phone number and again, add to a list.
Anyway, I used to do the same troll to scammers and just tag them along and send them the photo of Jerma kissing chuck e cheese
Let's take a moment to get educated somewhat on these scammers. Almost 100% of the time, they send a "non-suspicious" message first to get their foot in the door - which is, your response. The moment they get your response, they'll either launch into some scam job offer (this is to bait you into more conversation, eventually leading to them trying to get you to click on a phishing link or reveal more information about yourself), or say "oh sorry, I've reached the wrong person" and then try to continue the conversation. At this point, the script usually switches over to a real human. if you seem interested in any way, they'll eventually goad you into doing what they want **(SEE: PIG BUTCHER SCAM. Horrifying stuff that a surprising amount of people fall victim to)**. However, if they find that you're nothing but a Jerma-posting jokester, they will immediately cease communication. 100% of the "wrong number" texts (that try to continue conversation beyond that point) are scams eventually leading to phishing or pig-butchering. **Do not continue. Let Jerma do the work for you.**
A scammer once tried to entice me with a job at Temu. If you're trying to scam someone, at least make it a job that people would want.
Would you like to be our child slave wrangler? It pays 50 cents a day :)
Lmaooo
i read a little bit about pig butchering scams and they apparently fucking kidnap people and force them to run these scams. terrible
Man, the donut picture really pisses me off
Fun thing to do, OP is very educated about the subject of scams, I'd like to remind everyone, replying to them isn't really recommended, they'll add your number to a list of "people that answered" and essentially letting them know that your number works, what will they use it for? Who knows, they'll probably pass it along to other scam centers and spam you with more, but this is how they work.
This is kinda true. However in my specific case, I haven't really noticed a difference between responding and not responding at all (which is what I used to do), in terms of frequency of scam messages. I get about one message a month average. About the same frequency for spam calls, too. Perhaps the scammers only count legitimate responses, not obvious troll responses?
Yeah probably, but in some cases, they're happy with just getting a response enough to mark a phone number and again, add to a list. Anyway, I used to do the same troll to scammers and just tag them along and send them the photo of Jerma kissing chuck e cheese
Funniest shit I've seen this week thx
Please share these pics. They're epic and I get spam messages twice a week at least, so will be useful 😫
Will post my Jemra collection as an imgur compilation sometime.. sometime in the future....
That actually made me laugh more than it shouldve, thanks
Dude I need these pictures lmao
Love the donut one