New phone scam - receive random "hey this is ..." texts from random people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I once responded saying Do you have money to lend me? My kid is sick. You always said you would be there for me.

No one responded…

Lol I love this one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, this is absolutely a scam. They want you to respond to tell them they have the wrong number, then they know it is a good/real number.

I block all texts like this.

+1!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I once responded saying Do you have money to lend me? My kid is sick. You always said you would be there for me.

No one responded…

Lol I love this one.

+1

[Anonymous]

I got one “hi, do you remember me?”

I replied, “how could I forget? That incident was very memorable and not in a good way. You must be very embarrassed.”

No reply.

[Anonymous]

Every time I get one of these, I just send them a picture of my cat's anus when it had an infection (cat is fine now).

[Anonymous]

block

[Anonymous]

I get a lot of "how are you doing today". I've started responding "fanf#ckingtabulous" and blocking them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the past couple of weeks, I've received several "Hey, this is Mark" or "it was great to see you today" messages from random numbers. I generally don't get a lot of wrong number texts, but have probably had like 6 in the past 2-3 weeks, which is more than the past 2-3 years.

Is this a new phone scam? Has anyone else noticed an uptake of random texts from people you don't know?

I usually just block but sometimes I will tell them to find real jobs and stop scamming vulnerable lonely people before I block.

Unfortunately there are a lot of lonely people out there and many people get sucked in

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got one “hi, do you remember me?”

I replied, “how could I forget? That incident was very memorable and not in a good way. You must be very embarrassed.”

No reply.

This is great!

[Anonymous]

What can do they do with your cell phone number and name?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People suck.

My FIL recently passed and my MIL has been bombarded with texts scams using his name, occupation, etc. Makes me rethink publishing his obit. No idea how they got the cell number.

+1 My mom's Facebook was hacked/duplicated within hours of her obituary. I hate scammers.

What is the purpose of hacking dead People's Facebook pages and messaging the deceased's friends?

[Anonymous]

I got one w a pic of a puppy asking what my recommendation on feeding sick puppy was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, this is absolutely a scam. They want you to respond to tell them they have the wrong number, then they know it is a good/real number.

I block all texts like this.

It has nothing to do with figuring out if it’s a real number. They can do that because they can see if the number is registered. And they can also call it and see if it goes to voicemail.

[Anonymous]

I get these often and also a lot of the political/fundraiser texts who invariably address me as “Fradel” and I just wish I could remember if I ever wrote in the fake name Fradel on something cause it really cracks me up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got a text that was pretty clever. It said. ‘Hey there (X) I wanted to bring your mom some of my homemade dumplings, is she around later today’.

I responded ‘sorry, wrong number’. It seemed like an honest mistake.


And then the person texted ‘oh my apologies - you seem like a nice person’ followed by a photo of an attractive young woman. And a ‘do you live close by?’

Which I then blocked. Not my particular kryptonite. But there’s a lot of lonely and/or horny people out there. Send out enough messages and someone will bite.

100% this. I am embarrassed to admit that on a work trip I once catfished someone all week who pulled this with me. And I'm a straight married woman.

I started off my reply with 'thank you. my family always says I am too trusting. and handsome....' and it went from there. Every night I would report in to DH with how far I was getting with this dude who was pretending to be a wealthy available young woman. By day three I was texting that I was always messing up my bills/credit cards due to memory issues and s/he offered to help if I could send my credit card numbers. I agreed as I had 'a lot of money I didn't want someone to steal'... I then bought time by agreeing... but was 'not tech savvy' and proceeded to send a bunch of blurry photos of credit card images I found online and maybe a few dick picks that were actually my blurry thumb above the bathroom tiles. It was killing him/her and I was THRIVING/living my best life. It really killed a lot of time every night; I felt pretty accomplished. On the next trip I tried to keep it going but no response. *sigh.