Since I’m a new account, I can’t share pictures, but basically I’ve been getting messages from different numbers.
Sometimes it’s 130, 140, 160, 157… and it’s just one sentence, sometimes it’s not even complete. They send it between 5 minutes, 3, and four. I have a screenshot but can’t post.
These people keep saying things like “we are”, “we can get the boys back to work”, “I’m going back in a few weeks”. I keep blocking them and they keep coming with new weird sentences. I don’t know what I should do
My best guess is someone is in a group chat, got a new phone number, their friends and family added the new phone number but left the old one in. They text the person and it goes to both phone number entries in the contacts for that one person. Sometimes my aunt texts me directly when we’re all in the same group chat but she thinks she is talking to the group chat and gives similar responses like you’re describing.
@Arthur
I would think so, but it’s weird. They repeat the same sentences, but they don’t finish them. They’re also from diffrent states; only some are similar. I really wish I could show the messages because I don’t think I’m describing it well
It’s weird, and I don’t really get it, but it happens- just pretend they aren’t there, or even make a game of it to mess with them. Probably best to just ignore it though haha
disable incoming calls from unknown numbers, then wait for the dust to settle. might be a few days or even weeks, they’ll get banned/blocked by the ISP eventually. Your number got into a scammer’s list, nothing else you can do about it.
Random sentence -> person who doesn’t know better “Who is this?” -> Scammer engages in conversation -> Person gets scammed
I know it sounds easy to avoid when written out like this, but people get socially manipulated all the time. And not just the old or unwell.
Sometimes it just takes the right circumstances, like someone getting partial access to an account and blasting you with requests while you’re asleep. You half wake up and check what’s going and hit “Yeah it’s me” out of muscle memory on your Google log in request.
There’s many different attack vectors scammers will take. This could even just be them testing to see if someone would respond to a random text. Imagine you get those weird texts for days on end, you finally give in and respond and then get nothing back. A few more days later you get one of those “Hey is this your name?”. Because they know you’re more likely to respond
@lilnim
Tbh it sounds pretty clever to me. Like if someone actually responds with something like “I can’t see your message properly, reception must be bad” you know they’re dumb enough to get scammed.
