I almost went through a divorce because of this SHIT! I was busy doing some work at home. My phone was in the family room and so was my wife. I get this txt with this picture and it said "I miss you. A week is too long to not see you. Txt me back and I'll send the pics you wanted." My wife read it and man, the shit hit the fan! Me being out of town the 3 days before this incident of maniacal stupidity did NOT help! We didn't know this was a scam until a little later. We got it straightened out but I was within a cat whisker of losing my wife. Damn this!!
This guy does more to prevent and stop online scammers than the FBI GrindTechiei You're not only closing down scammers but also educating the public, making them aware. Well done!
The best way I avoid scam calls? Not picking up numbers I don’t recognize and waiting to see if they leave a message. If the message sounds sketchy, I delete the voicemail and block the number!
Personally I enjoy scam callers. I drive a semi all day every day, and when they call it’s game on. I’ll spend hours wasting their time so they can’t scam someone else, and keeping myself entertained. From doing different voice impersonations, to accents, making up a whole new life and name for myself to mess up the records or database of information they think they have about me, it’s very entertaining. Usually able to make them so angry it sounds like they hate their entire life. Even learnt insults in their language that really makes them tick. (Most scam calls I get are the India call center type ones)
Now that’s a productive use of down-time. IRL Rosie does the same thing on her YT channel, impersonating Siri’s voice. You guys should connect and swap stories. Cheers
my phone alerts me now when spam callers come in. It just says possible spam. I used to pick up and mess with them like if it was a real person. Now on my pixel I have a option to screen the call. Meaning I don't have to answer but I can select an option of my phone asking the caller who is this? what do you need? wrong number. Can you repeat that? I can read what the caller is saying as it transits back to me. It's wonderful though
Fighting the good fight... this is hilarious to do, you can easily waste 10-15 minutes of their time by just periodically saying "yeah, uh-huh" as they talk, and occasionally ask some idiotic question that will require them to re-explain everything from square one. Good free entertainment and makes their scam less effective.
I work in cybersecurity our rule of thumb is to never open any message or email you don’t recognize. With the development of one and no click exploits and Pegasus you never know which hackers/scammers are on the other side. We don’t need to report anything if we all delete them immediately. I wish the expert touched on that. Never open anything you don’t recognize.
Ok so the girl found out her photo is being used. And what happens now? Nothing. Basically these scammers get away with everything. Rediculous how nobody can catch these scammers
Almost all of them are outside of the US, text scams are mainly Nigerian, and the government there really doesn't care, same with India. Hell, even US scammers get away with it.
I feel sorry for the gal in the picture. If she isn't behind the scam, it must be very infuriating to realize you're being a target of a scam bait and since she was probably clueless to the ordeal, people may have ended up looking at her like "Don't trust her, she's a scammer". Meanwhile, she's probably thinking "Who are you and what did I do to you?" I recognize this text immediately, so I knew it was a scam when I got it. But I didn't know others were targeted similarly until now.
@@elknothin3403 ohhhh so that is how they got her nudes I thought, wrongly, she was a girl that might have send nudes to some acquaintance and got asked to pay but, didn't pay and thus the individual wished to kill two birds at once. 1 by punishing her for not paying thus distributing her nudes at a national level. 2 learn which numbers are owned by people who respond to random numbers and sell the data to other scammers.
I totally thought it was the wrong number and immediately blocked when “she” kept flirting. Yikes. Can’t trust anyone anymore. Also, poor girl in the photo!
Same here, first thought was “aww someone gave her a fake number”. Eventually blocked the number but at no point did I really think it was a scam. Definitely used to email and phone calls but texts too? Dang
@@scee8474when attractive women are just suddenly interested in you and even slightly aggressive in their flirting the odds of it being a scam wether online or in person is super high. If I’ve learned anything from both television and movies and actual regular life it’s that. Unless you are a famous very attractive dude it’s extremely unlikely an attractive woman would not only approach you but be nothing forward. Even just women approaching guys is rare let alone an attractive woman approaching an average guy or random guy and being forward. It’s unheard of. It’s either someone pretending to be a chick scamming you blackmail or getting funds somehow or info, or it’s an actual woman scamming you. This is pretty common I Ken’s women also marry as a scam as they get so much legal power they can become millionaires or have a full time income at least just marrying and divorcing. And others scam guys trying to get visas, or just will get with the guy roofie them and steal their wallet and other items that happens quite a bit at bars they did a thing on that at one point it’s not covered much. Got to be humiliating but that’s part of what you risk gettin with random women online or in person. And then you can have an Amber heard situation as well or have what happened to so many guys from Elon musk to Trump to that baseball player they found the texts of his wife or girlfriend planning on now to falsely accuse him to take his money. Women by themselves or sued by others are used to take down guys all the time with false accusations it’s been many guys Achilles heel or kryptonite and lead to the loss of just so much of them. And quite a few dudes have ended their lives now over just losing everything. One divorce coupled with false accusations can take half your income or more and destroy your ability to work take your family humiliate you publicly label you sometimes pretty severely and since you’re a dude very few care. Even just false accusations can distort your live hood follow you online forever and you can lose your job and be labeled negatively, even very mild ones like you looked at a woman in the gym can hurt you or at least cause unrest for a while and they need zero evidence. Depp had a ton of evidence and still was hard to win since he’s a dude and people want to take the woman’s side she was just so aggressively bad and he had so many others vouching for him and she had zero evidence and bad lawyers and still it took a while and many still thought it was an even case despite there being zero evidence he was violent and a ton that she was on top of her actually admitting to violence.
My mom calls me every so often asking if “such and such” is a scam. “They say I have a package that’s being held up at the border” I’m glad she reaches out, and doesn’t get pulled into the trap
Somebody in public office or a celebrity has to speak out. There are parents concerned over their children being asked to send pictures to these child pedophiles.
I remember the good old days when all I got were emails telling me I won the lottery but needed to pay for postage fee. Or my rich uncle who was a king somewhere died and left me a huge inheritance but needed to pay for legal paperwork etc. I’m supposedly a Nigerian prince after all. Haha!
That poor girl whose picture is being used must also have sent nude photos of herself to someone who ended up using these to continue scamming other people. Because I replied wrong number to this and she sent me a nude. Freaked me out and I told my husband and then blocked the number and deleted it. And now I'm starting to see this everywhere and I'm glad I'm not alone, but it's still really scary. Goes to show you can't show photos to just anyone, but also that we're never really safe
Unfortunately you just can't be nice anymore. I have noticed a huge uptick in scam voicemails and texts in the last year. I just delete everything that I don't recognize or that doesn't make sense. Legitimate companies or people won't be sending cryptic messages. Better be safe than sorry. These scammers had a lot of time on their hands in the last two years of the pandemic to perfect their techniques.
Well, doesn't matter if you personally send a photo to someone. You have a insta/FB, scammers will use those photos. No one is "safe" from their photos being used. Once on the internet, it's public free use.
I actually had a whole text convo with this person telling them how much of a jerk some guy was for giving out the wrong number and that they deserve better. 🤦🏻♀️Then they sent that very same pic and proceeds to ask if I want to hang out since they were already in town. I figured either this woman is desperate or it could really be a psycho. I blocked the number.
Ive had messages like this before that nearly gave me a God’s honest heart attack because all I could think was what if my fiancé saw this crap. Can you imagine how painful it would be if you truly love tour partner to death and you are genuinely faithful to her but then something stupid like this from a scammer was the thing that destroys your relationship....
@@HighDiver5555 thats because these sexual explicit emails show up at all hours from 1:am to 7:am while you're at work and trying to sleep. Most online services want money and Google - gmail response team is just useless.
Bravo, *Briskdeft* I'm so glad you're out there fighting these scumbags. We must do everything in our power to protect the elderly and the general public from these despicable scammers. You're a true hero, my brother.!!!……
My mom got this novel long text message once and the girl was pregnant and crying about that the baby daddy doesn’t want anything to do with her! Lol my mom was like I feel so bad for her, should I reach out? I was like “HELL NO! You crazy??” 😂😂😂
@@Bunny11344 Well.. you could have kept your prequel for yourself! To say you don’t care about children or pregnant women shows a lot about your character. Only thing you had to say was that you block people you don’t know. Get help! That would be a horrible thing for someone to say about YOU as a child and you as a fetus in your mother’s womb! And also your mother while sharing her body with you! How generous of her to not end your life and possibly hers if she felt necessary! You poor little you able to talk dirt about someone helpless while you are breathing, eating and having the luxury to type a comment on useless UA-cam! 🙄
I love receiving scam calls they make my day, hilarious! I had one scammer convinced that I just murdered someone and was on the run from the police. They said if I just gave them my CC number, they can help me escape. 😂😂😂😂
I had a similar thing on whatsapp a couple of years ago. The message was in spanish. I put it in google translate. It was “We know what you did with the bodies. We found them in the hotel. Give us your information or you’re going to jail.”
The IRS called me and told me that I owe them a *lot* of money, and that if I didn't pay them back with Home Depot gift cards, that they were friends with the Governor (?) and we would all be arrested. I don't understand why they would be arrested alongside me, but I paid them double what they asked for in Lowe's Improvement cards just to be sure.
I got a similar text with the same picture recently. Me and my boyfriend just blocked the number and deleted it. I could tell he was suspicious at first tho lol but we both knew it was spam
A Woman said she got something similar, but laughed because she was a Straight and married Woman, but admitted she would have went ballistic if this text showed up on her husband's phone if she didn't know it was a scam.
I think she is saying truth dude. Go for it. You have to believe and have faith people love you. You are very good men, not bad men. Love is good, you show her how much you want the relationship to work and please her. Its how I got my wife and we are so in love. You to can have love friend.
My husband got this! Few months ago he came home and told me he got the weirdest text. She texted him talking bout how she thought he was cute and asked if he wanted to hook up. He said I think you have the wrong person, I'm happily married, and she said, "Oh, sorry, how embarrassing I guess it's not every day a cute guy gives you the wrong number." Yet she still replied again saying "Well you wanna hook up anyways, I'm not looking for anything serious, just a good time." And she sent her pic. He reiterated he was married and blocked her. Wow....
Same happened to me, i wonder if this was only sent to men. I tried to talk and ask why they would send a picture to someone they dont know and they replied with a Nude, even though i didnt send a picture.
Scammers used my phone number for a while and I was getting angry call backs from people that did not believe me when I said I never called them. May these damn scammers rot in hell.
@@Jennylee20 It's horrible! And I've also been on the other end of it, calling back numbers that were used by the scammers only to have an angry person tell me they never called me. I'm glad people have caught on to this trick of theirs.
Scammers often spoof groups of phone numbers in the local area. The "I want to reconnect" scam typically uses an area code in the general region. I have received both a call and text that were supposedly from my phone. Turned out they originated off shore, routed through a major hub, then the local telecom provider.
They have moved to AWS virtual phone servers now. The scams go on. Maybe Google got wise to their scams and started blocking them from repeated calls to other countries.
... yeah, I thought I was the only one, to receive a scam call from my own phone number...smh... damn, even the scammers are getting desperate and careless...smh
My spouse received a phone call from their own number. Damn spammers. I've had texts about packages claiming to be fed ex. I have a call blocker, my phone does a decent job of blocking spam texts, too.
Yeah man! Just forward it to the federal trade commission just for nothing to change and for your service company to do absolutely nothing to help you unless you pay a monthly fee! The best part is that you can't even block unknown numbers from reaching your iPhone; you will ALWAYS get notifications for them even if they're filtered.
I have RoboKiller and it jams up the majority of the calls, but it also jams up legit numbers too. For example the VA. I always have issues when the VA calls me.
Hey LUIOFFICIAL@ yep...try reporting unsolicited sexual harassing emails to Google and you get useless responses. These sexual emails are using the Google Notifications logo and header...I had to turn off my email syncing to avoid harrassment in the middle of the night. I blocked and threatened to report the email senders and they just doubled down by sending hundreds of explicit videos and pics of naked Russian women. I finally had to get a new number...Google Help Center was totally useless!!!
Just a few months ago this person texted me posing as that same woman, saying that she met a guy and he gave her a wrong number on purpose, finding me instead. Felt bad for her until the texts got weird with her flirting and saying she wanted to meet me. Girl, you just got stood up and now you're going to try to get with the stranger you texted instead? I didn't respond right away, and she kept sending similar messages. It scared me enough to block the number and delete the chain. Glad I did, but I feel bad for the actual person whose photo is being used for this scam. These scammers make this poor woman look desperate.
Lmao I got this text a couple weeks ago but I googled blue waffles, and this picture of a woman with dicks for tits and sent that. Probably shouldn’t have replied at all
Not evertbody who refuses to go to work EVERT DAY is a phone scammer. It’s ok to have a day off or more. When is the last time you took a walk in nature or volunteered to help your community? Why do you scam innocent people who only want friendship?
Hey GrindTechiei just wanna thank you again for offering to help me out with scammers about a year ago. Your a stand up guy and I am greatful to you, glad your doing so well. Thanks again keep up the great work and ROCK ON WITH YOUR AWESOME SELF BROTHER,,
I got that same picture of that girl. They didn't send a text with it. I blocked it right away. Because I've blocked others I got with other women's pictures I figured they was a scam a long time ago.
I had gotten this text not too long ago, and I told them that I was a part of the cybercrimes unit of the City Police Department. Stopped texting me since.
Got this text told them they had the wrong number then got a nude. Immediately told them I was calling the police 😂😂😂 haven’t had any scam messages since then 😂😂😂
Try telling that to the millions of females who are addicted to the views and likes they get from posting their photos on the internet. They'll never stop, their vanity won't let them.
I literally have that woman’s picture on my phone…however I did try to pretend that I was a non emergency hotline. They replied every 2 minutes and when I told them that deputies where in their way to “her” exact location with a warrant and legal name, they didn’t respond for 40 minutes
Wow, you tried to trick them into believing a judge signed off on a warrant for a text message, 😂. They were laughing at you for 40 minutes, that's why they didn't reply. Brainiac, do you even know what is required to get a warrant issued? I'm dying here laughing at you.
At one time I was getting anywhere from 10 to 15 spam calls a day from different cities and even text that I knew was spam. And if you hang up or just don’t answer they use a different number from a different town to keep calling. If you block the number within 15 minutes they call from a different city.
@@kennethwayne6857 the trick has always been. if you are getting one of those and you respond with your name in a bold big voice *Kenneth Wayne* instead of just *Dis Kennie*. they hang up listen to it , write the name down and call back and you'd think its legit. at that point you got played big time. and you are fixin' to cry.
My voicemail greeting is the phone lady saying, "The number you have dialed is no longer in service." ... I rarely get spam calls now. "We're sorry, your call cannot be completed as dialed; Would you please hang up and try again" was a hoot back in the answering machine days LOL.
Hey *GrindTechiei* just wanna thank you again for offering to help me out with scammers about a year ago. Your a stand up guy and I am greatful to you, glad your doing so well. Thanks again keep up the great work and ROCK ON WITH YOUR AWESOME SELF BROTHERr
This could be stopped if the FBI/NSA had the personnel to trace the texts. Unfortunately, all their time is spent surveilling people who speak up at PTA meetings.
Exactly why I ignore any calls or texts from any numbers I don’t recognize as part of my contacts. It’s a sin and a shame that there’s people in this world who wake up every day with only one goal for the day, to look for anyone their greedy, selfish, criminal self can scam and rob. The lake of fire awaits them unless they repent & turn to Jesus Christ as their Savior.😓
You know what else is wrong and a shame?? Jesus Spammers You literally described every preacher of the world who "wake up every day with only one goal for the day, to look for anyone their greedy, selfish, criminal self can scam and rob"
I got this text scam on my phone some months ago. I did instinctively respond with “wrong number “. But then I immediately got a flirty text back along with the red head picture. I then just blocked the number. Thankfully I don’t believe anything has happened to my number since, but it still sucks knowing that I made scammers aware my number is active
Your first clue should be someone saying "it's been a long time" without giving their name, or using yours. If I was texting someone out of the blue after years, I'd probably make sure they knew who I was in case I wasn't in their contacts anymore.
Stupidity is the cause of being scammed. Responding gives them nothing but validity to your number. There is no real danger unless you actually correspond with them.
@@swayback7375 That's true...my older cousin, who is not really used to having an Iphone, is always showing me messages and asking if it's important. My answer is always the same.....delete delete! It's not stupidity on her part, just not enough experience yet with this crap.
Respond to them or download the photo to your device. It very likely has something embedded in it to track you or log information typed into or stored on the phone. As far as your location goes, if you use a VPN you won't have that problem because the IP address showed is located in another part of the country.
@@wtconroe879 You can't put a keylogger in a picture without a link "behind it", you'd have to click a link that downloaded a file that would contain the keylogger to get your typed information stored which you can't hide a link in a picture in a text, and you'd have to click a link to get your location tracked too. Neither are a possibility from saving a picture over text.
if you have a smart phone, switch to the Pixel phone. It screens calls. It will literally tell you possible spam when a spam calls you. Then you have a option to screen the call without picking up. Your phone talks to the callers in which you can select messages like who is this? what are you calling about? repeat yourself....wrong number. It's wonderful. Then with text messages- there is a spam folder separately from your text inbox. Spam messages will land in your spam inbox and not your regular text inbox. Get the Pixel - you won't be disappointed. Love it
@John Doe that’s the safest way, but then the malware can’t be analyzed from the screenshot. The best thing to do is to have an IT security professional transfer the file to a machine set up with analysis tools.
These type of scams have been a thing for almost 2 decades. They just evolve with the advancement of tech & prey on people who aren’t the most tech savvy.
😂 once I got a call on my landline and the person was pretending to be from the state police... I hung up. A week later again, so I answered and asked the guy where he was going to spend eternity when he died. He tried to change the conversation but I wouldn't let him. He said I have to check with my boss. I said why, your boss won't be standing next to you when you stand before God ‼️ The guy hung up and I never got a call back from him again 🤣😂 Hopefully he will be thinking about the question I asked him
I wish I could find people that call or text my phone without my permission! I don't even turn my ringer on anymore unless I'm expecting an important call. Thanks a lot scammers and telemarketers!
I got a scam message where they wanted to catch up because we 'met at a party' and I gave her the number. The scammer keeps asking me to download telegram and whatsapp. I keep ignoring it.
Omg I got that same exact message and photo. I thought it was a scam. I told her "sorry, you sent this to the wrong number." Her response made it obvious that she was fake so I stopped responding after that.
You should also set your phone up under text settings to not auto download/auto retrieve SMS or MMS text messages. The mere fact of having auto download not changed out means they can send a virus to your phone. So disable auto download/auto retrieve by disabling it in your text message settings. If you're not sure how to do that check with your phone's manufacturer manual.
what would you do if you had it set to allow mms text and you got one of these or a strange group text would a free antivirus app like kaspersky catch the malware from it or would i have to use a stronger diging tool to find it?
@@togethergutlesss No antivirus out there can guarantee things 100%, but it is better than nothing at all. The safest way is to not have automatic download check marked in your phone's settings. That is a guarantee you will not get anything from MMS or SMS texts as long as you don't download it. I tell folks all the time I don't do any downloads from them or clicky clicky links from them. I am not saying people can't be trusted, but you never know if some hacker or worse may have gotten hold of their phone. There are always malicious actors everywhere you go both online and in real. You're better off veering on the side of safety. Those potential dog photos aren't worth taking a chance.
There is some goofball phone scam where for some reason, they ask for the 800 number on the back of your credit card (after you give them a fake algorithmically correct generated CC number so you can keep stringing them along, of course). I always give them the FTC hotline 800 number...
God loves all of us so much He came in the flesh to die and rise so that if we choose to accept Jesus as our one true Savior turning from our sins we may be gifted eternal salvation through Christ’s perfect sacrifice on the cross. Have a great day
This isn’t about texting but this reminds me of a situation when I used to work at an apartment complex. There was this website that will give us leads to call the clients. However after calling multiple clients I begin to realize that for some reason they never really put their information on the website. So like some people I would call they would be really bewildered like “how did you get my number?” So one time I called this lady who lived in New York, and not even five minutes later her husband calls, and he’s like “so are you gonna tell me is my wife trying to sneakily move to Texas behind my back?” And I told him I was like well we get generated leads you know blah blah blah. So him and his wife spent over 30 minutes calling us back over and over and over again in between their argument because she was literally about to get divorced by this man. Like crying, emotionally scarred at this point! It was wild I can’t believe I almost caused a divorce because I was calling to follow up on a lead! They definitely have issues before, I was just the icing on the cake 😂
Isn’t there a setting on our phoned that doesn’t allow for incoming text messages from people that aren’t in out contact list, that we never called or that we never opted into via a token?
Is there an option to "turn off" hyperlinks in SMS/Text messages? I'm so freaking tired of these scammers sending me links in the middle of the night. One of these days I'm going to screw up and accidentally click one. Turning off hyperlinks in SMS/Text should be an option if it isn't...
It’s gotten out of hand and even if you don’t answer, the phone never stops ringing. So the best I’ve been able to do is enable the block that only allows my phone to ring or notify me if it’s a number already in my contacts. Does make it harder when doing normal things and I have to ask which number a business may be calling me from to enter it or to remind them to please leave a message I can physically check to see if they have called as my phone will not make a sound if they call. After having to repeat why I use the setting most are cool with it (govt agencies never are) and I’m happy to go elsewhere if they do have a problem. Just the way the world works anymore.
First I hit decline on the first ring, and they call back immediately about 6 times, so then I block the number, then they call from a similar number, and the cycle continues about 10 times a day(no exaggeration). How the h*ll can you win?
It’s annoying how often this happens. Even blocking and reporting them doesn’t do anything. So now I’ve resorted to turning off all notifications. Yes I do miss the timing of important texts but it’s the only thing I can do to have some sanity
I got a text last week of this gal. The text said something about how she saw me at bar and missed me. Wanted to get together. Something of that nature. BUT the text went into my spam folder. You see I got the Google Pixel phone. Spam messages land in my 'spam' folder, not my regular text inbox. I got an alert with the spam message, read it and didn't even bother with anything else. My Pixel phone also alerts me if a spam message is calling. It tells me possible spam so I don't pick up. I love this Pixel phone!
Several guys that I worked with got this text. One even got into a text exchange with the scammer. The scammer tried to convince him that they had a previous relationship.
Yup, I got that text and the amount of fun I had by screwing that scammer was very enjoyable. That scammer at the end that idiot was finally admitted that he is frustrated talking to me. Scam the scammers bruh it's fun. Just don't click Any links or download any things. And don't give them any sensitive info to them.
i got the exact one too, once i got the pics i realized it was a bot, called it a bot, it told me i was being weird so i told it i was calling the police and it stopped lol
Rofl!!! I can't stop laughing long enough to address how failingly un-adept your reporters are! Thanks for teaching everyone over 100 how to search stuff on Google! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
eh i kinda almost did...but when I read it I was like I don't go to bars and don't recognize the picture....so i just left it. plus it went to my spam folder
I've had multiple texts like this from both my regular IM and WhatsApp. However, mine was provided of Asian women. They all started the same, asking if I am John and can't remember because they got this number from the airport. Since my first encounter, I've been blocking every single one that comes through.
Considering how many real messages I get like this every day and how little attention I give them it's impossible for such a weak grift to lure me at all.
@@BlamingBuddha I don't know about every day, but I get these about every 2 or 3 months. Now I just respond NO and block immediately. If I don't block they'll keep texting throughout the day from the same number. I don't know how its a "scam", but its definitely annoying.
I almost went through a divorce because of this SHIT!
I was busy doing some work at home. My phone was in the family room and so was my wife. I get this txt with this picture and it said "I miss you. A week is too long to not see you. Txt me back and I'll send the pics you wanted."
My wife read it and man, the shit hit the fan!
Me being out of town the 3 days before this incident of maniacal stupidity did NOT help! We didn't know this was a scam until a little later. We got it straightened out but I was within a cat whisker of losing my wife. Damn this!!
😂😂 damn I hope you told her off for doubting you !!
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😂 ah man I’m freakin crackin up right now sheesh out of town 3days before and then your wife finds this text on your phone crazy.
@@dopefreshness77 That was mentioned, yes.
I ignore the texts I get from my friends, bold of them to assume they’d be treated any different
@Raymond Anderson lmao
Why do you ignore messages from your friends?
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I dont always feel like talking, its not like I owe it to them.
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This guy does more to prevent and stop online scammers than the FBI GrindTechiei You're not only closing down scammers but also educating the public, making them aware. Well done!
The best way I avoid scam calls? Not picking up numbers I don’t recognize and waiting to see if they leave a message. If the message sounds sketchy, I delete the voicemail and block the number!
Even simpler for me since I don't have voicemail 😂🤣
Dont even block the number, its pointless. They use a number randomizer and always call from different ones
When you run a business that’s impossible but how can you be so dumb to get scammed you would have to be willing to not think
True friends and family don't leave vm. 🤗
The reason I never set up my voicemail. I answer no calls without a name attached to it from my contacts.
Personally I enjoy scam callers. I drive a semi all day every day, and when they call it’s game on. I’ll spend hours wasting their time so they can’t scam someone else, and keeping myself entertained. From doing different voice impersonations, to accents, making up a whole new life and name for myself to mess up the records or database of information they think they have about me, it’s very entertaining. Usually able to make them so angry it sounds like they hate their entire life. Even learnt insults in their language that really makes them tick. (Most scam calls I get are the India call center type ones)
Now that’s a productive use of down-time. IRL Rosie does the same thing on her YT channel, impersonating Siri’s voice. You guys should connect and swap stories. Cheers
Lmao you should make it into a UA-cam channel. I’d subscribe to that
my phone alerts me now when spam callers come in. It just says possible spam. I used to pick up and mess with them like if it was a real person. Now on my pixel I have a option to screen the call. Meaning I don't have to answer but I can select an option of my phone asking the caller who is this? what do you need? wrong number. Can you repeat that? I can read what the caller is saying as it transits back to me. It's wonderful though
Fighting the good fight... this is hilarious to do, you can easily waste 10-15 minutes of their time by just periodically saying "yeah, uh-huh" as they talk, and occasionally ask some idiotic question that will require them to re-explain everything from square one. Good free entertainment and makes their scam less effective.
@@ToxicFruitSnack Same! Let's brainstorm names, I'd go with "Truckin and Trollin"
I work in cybersecurity our rule of thumb is to never open any message or email you don’t recognize. With the development of one and no click exploits and Pegasus you never know which hackers/scammers are on the other side. We don’t need to report anything if we all delete them immediately. I wish the expert touched on that. Never open anything you don’t recognize.
Ok so the girl found out her photo is being used. And what happens now? Nothing. Basically these scammers get away with everything. Rediculous how nobody can catch these scammers
Almost all of them are outside of the US, text scams are mainly Nigerian, and the government there really doesn't care, same with India. Hell, even US scammers get away with it.
@@cephalonplant4087 💯
Yep welcome to the 21st century bud
If they're not in the US, then there is only so much law enforcement can do.
@@cephalonplant4087 Fr🤣
I feel sorry for the gal in the picture. If she isn't behind the scam, it must be very infuriating to realize you're being a target of a scam bait and since she was probably clueless to the ordeal, people may have ended up looking at her like "Don't trust her, she's a scammer". Meanwhile, she's probably thinking "Who are you and what did I do to you?"
I recognize this text immediately, so I knew it was a scam when I got it. But I didn't know others were targeted similarly until now.
Well at least she now knows she's hot. Depends how she took it and if she got harassed
she has some nice tats though.....not that I would know or anything.
@@ichigokurosaki7762 she has an OF of course she knows she's hot
@@elknothin3403 ohhhh so that is how they got her nudes I thought, wrongly, she was a girl that might have send nudes to some acquaintance and got asked to pay but, didn't pay and thus the individual wished to kill two birds at once. 1 by punishing her for not paying thus distributing her nudes at a national level. 2 learn which numbers are owned by people who respond to random numbers and sell the data to other scammers.
@@elknothin3403 who is it?
I totally thought it was the wrong number and immediately blocked when “she” kept flirting. Yikes. Can’t trust anyone anymore. Also, poor girl in the photo!
Same this happened to me too! I’m glad to know I did the right thing by just blocking it
Same here, first thought was “aww someone gave her a fake number”. Eventually blocked the number but at no point did I really think it was a scam. Definitely used to email and phone calls but texts too? Dang
@@scee8474when attractive women are just suddenly interested in you and even slightly aggressive in their flirting the odds of it being a scam wether online or in person is super high. If I’ve learned anything from both television and movies and actual regular life it’s that. Unless you are a famous very attractive dude it’s extremely unlikely an attractive woman would not only approach you but be nothing forward. Even just women approaching guys is rare let alone an attractive woman approaching an average guy or random guy and being forward. It’s unheard of. It’s either someone pretending to be a chick scamming you blackmail or getting funds somehow or info, or it’s an actual woman scamming you. This is pretty common I Ken’s women also marry as a scam as they get so much legal power they can become millionaires or have a full time income at least just marrying and divorcing. And others scam guys trying to get visas, or just will get with the guy roofie them and steal their wallet and other items that happens quite a bit at bars they did a thing on that at one point it’s not covered much. Got to be humiliating but that’s part of what you risk gettin with random women online or in person. And then you can have an Amber heard situation as well or have what happened to so many guys from Elon musk to Trump to that baseball player they found the texts of his wife or girlfriend planning on now to falsely accuse him to take his money. Women by themselves or sued by others are used to take down guys all the time with false accusations it’s been many guys Achilles heel or kryptonite and lead to the loss of just so much of them. And quite a few dudes have ended their lives now over just losing everything. One divorce coupled with false accusations can take half your income or more and destroy your ability to work take your family humiliate you publicly label you sometimes pretty severely and since you’re a dude very few care. Even just false accusations can distort your live hood follow you online forever and you can lose your job and be labeled negatively, even very mild ones like you looked at a woman in the gym can hurt you or at least cause unrest for a while and they need zero evidence. Depp had a ton of evidence and still was hard to win since he’s a dude and people want to take the woman’s side she was just so aggressively bad and he had so many others vouching for him and she had zero evidence and bad lawyers and still it took a while and many still thought it was an even case despite there being zero evidence he was violent and a ton that she was on top of her actually admitting to violence.
How, if u blocked them?
Lol I got same text 🤣
Same hahaha
Me too, it's fun to mess with them
Ha I did too
Same!
Stupidly, I responded
I hate scammers.
Get in line.
@@kennethwayne6857 is there a line for wanting them executed?
It's so good to hear someone finally speaking up against scammers
@@ssjwes I'd be on it!
Beat the living shit out of one when you find one then..
Share this with your elders too. A lot of parents and grandparents aren’t aware of scammers.
My mom calls me every so often asking if “such and such” is a scam. “They say I have a package that’s being held up at the border” I’m glad she reaches out, and doesn’t get pulled into the trap
God help us if clouds try to scam old people after yelling at them.
Somebody in public office or a celebrity has to speak out. There are parents concerned over their children being asked to send pictures to these child pedophiles.
I also get ones where it’s like someone asks me if I am ready for coffee or smthn and then I just say wrong number and instantly report as junk
Honestly a lot of elderly people shouldn't even be allowed access to the internet. They are too easy a target for scammers, and ripe for the picking.
I remember the good old days when all I got were emails telling me I won the lottery but needed to pay for postage fee. Or my rich uncle who was a king somewhere died and left me a huge inheritance but needed to pay for legal paperwork etc. I’m supposedly a Nigerian prince after all. Haha!
😂😂😂
King Isaac! Lol.
Thats how i got my $2 million ... i paid the $5 postage, got the check, deposited it, sent him is $100k ... and i kept the $1.9 million ...
Hahaha the good old days
I'm still seeing those in my work junk mail. The latest 1 wants to invest in my country.
That poor girl whose picture is being used must also have sent nude photos of herself to someone who ended up using these to continue scamming other people. Because I replied wrong number to this and she sent me a nude. Freaked me out and I told my husband and then blocked the number and deleted it. And now I'm starting to see this everywhere and I'm glad I'm not alone, but it's still really scary.
Goes to show you can't show photos to just anyone, but also that we're never really safe
Unfortunately you just can't be nice anymore. I have noticed a huge uptick in scam voicemails and texts in the last year.
I just delete everything that I don't recognize or that doesn't make sense.
Legitimate companies or people won't be sending cryptic messages. Better be safe than sorry.
These scammers had a lot of time on their hands in the last two years of the pandemic to perfect their techniques.
the nude could’ve been annoying else as well
Same here…. I sent to the 7726 & the. deleted the conversation! Even my kids are getting messages from this person & it’s annoying and ridiculous
Well, doesn't matter if you personally send a photo to someone. You have a insta/FB, scammers will use those photos. No one is "safe" from their photos being used. Once on the internet, it's public free use.
bruh, "this girl" sent me her photo
I actually had a whole text convo with this person telling them how much of a jerk some guy was for giving out the wrong number and that they deserve better. 🤦🏻♀️Then they sent that very same pic and proceeds to ask if I want to hang out since they were already in town. I figured either this woman is desperate or it could really be a psycho. I blocked the number.
You did the right thing. That’s mad creepy wow lol
SAME!
Same 😂😂
Yea same thing happened to me. They responded like oh well do you wanna hang out anyway?
YUP SAME. SAME PICTURE AND TYPE OF CONVO. BLOCKED THE NUMBER FAST WHEN SHE SUGGESTED TO STILL HANG OUT WHEN I SAID IM NOT WHO SHE MET BEFORE LMFAO
I'm all the way out here in Japan and I still got this shit 🤣
N WAY 💀
Yooo wtf lol
😳
It's the fbi trying to track you
How? Don’t you have a Japanese SIM card? Everyone just talks on Line there, why/how are you using American SMS texting?
Ive had messages like this before that nearly gave me a God’s honest heart attack because all I could think was what if my fiancé saw this crap. Can you imagine how painful it would be if you truly love tour partner to death and you are genuinely faithful to her but then something stupid like this from a scammer was the thing that destroys your relationship....
There's a comment on this video just like this, wow
Thats crazy!
Not if you have a propperly functioning relationship
@@HighDiver5555 thats because these sexual explicit emails show up at all hours from 1:am to 7:am while you're at work and trying to sleep. Most online services want money and Google - gmail response team is just useless.
No rational adult thinks this is real. If your partner thinks this is "evidence" of cheating, you're in a bad relationship.
Bravo, *Briskdeft* I'm so glad you're out there fighting these scumbags. We must do everything in our power to protect the elderly and the general public from these despicable scammers. You're a true hero, my brother.!!!……
"Anyone who replied got sent x-rated photos."
Wow, what a scam. Really got me good with that one. I hope more women don't scam me like that.
Although, might be naked Madison Cawthorn, at a retrumpliKKKan "party"!
You can find those photos online with reverse image search.
@@Unknown_Ooh what is a reverse image search?
It’s not women doing it weirdo lol
Weirdo
I am a small time landlord and I get multiple texts and calls every week wanting to buy my property.
Yeah good thing your keen to these tactics. Imagine being oblivious and being cleaned out. Life ruined
We don't care.
@@Roland_Duson Sweet Home Alabama.
@@Roland_Duson and why should I give a fuck
Mines worth like 750… Send me 1.5 mill it’s yours
My mom got this novel long text message once and the girl was pregnant and crying about that the baby daddy doesn’t want anything to do with her! Lol my mom was like I feel so bad for her, should I reach out? I was like “HELL NO! You crazy??” 😂😂😂
Unfortunately, it's often the really nice people that fall for this crap....most of the rest of us are pretty jaded by now!
@@sbffsbrarbrr Nice people are weak people.
@@sbffsbrarbrr those people are called “useful idiots”
Luckily Idc about kids or pregnant women I block anyone who l don’t know that text me
@@Bunny11344 Well.. you could have kept your prequel for yourself! To say you don’t care about children or pregnant women shows a lot about your character. Only thing you had to say was that you block people you don’t know. Get help! That would be a horrible thing for someone to say about YOU as a child and you as a fetus in your mother’s womb! And also your mother while sharing her body with you! How generous of her to not end your life and possibly hers if she felt necessary! You poor little you able to talk dirt about someone helpless while you are breathing, eating and having the luxury to type a comment on useless UA-cam! 🙄
I love receiving scam calls they make my day, hilarious! I had one scammer convinced that I just murdered someone and was on the run from the police. They said if I just gave them my CC number, they can help me escape. 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣 giiiiiirrrrrellllll LMFAOO your trackable cc going to help. they missed the memo
I had a similar thing on whatsapp a couple of years ago. The message was in spanish. I put it in google translate. It was “We know what you did with the bodies. We found them in the hotel. Give us your information or you’re going to jail.”
I glad you got away clean, just lay low for a while
@@LegendaryManSlayer93 LMFAOO this is hilarious
do you have an OnlyFans?
I sent them a photo of my cats fluffy behind and they left me alone after that 🤣🤣🤣
They usually put you on a list to really piss you off when you do that..they resell lists.
The IRS called me and told me that I owe them a *lot* of money, and that if I didn't pay them back with Home Depot gift cards, that they were friends with the Governor (?) and we would all be arrested. I don't understand why they would be arrested alongside me, but I paid them double what they asked for in Lowe's Improvement cards just to be sure.
AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
was a scam
I heard of someone that fell victim to the home depot gift card scam lol
@@Analymous Well it wasn't me -- I gave them "Lowe's Improvement" gift cards *specifically* so that I wouldn't be scammed.
@@TROOPERfarcry 😫🤣🤣😂😂Good one😜
Got the same picture but it was “Hey sexy! I had so much relief the other night! What do you feel ab round two?” It was hilarious 😂
Same lmao
I got that exact same one 🤣
Me too! I almost replied to tell her that she had the wrong number, but I ended up just deleting it instead…thank God!!!
I got a similar text with the same picture recently. Me and my boyfriend just blocked the number and deleted it. I could tell he was suspicious at first tho lol but we both knew it was spam
A Woman said she got something similar, but laughed because she was a Straight and married Woman, but admitted she would have went ballistic if this text showed up on her husband's phone if she didn't know it was a scam.
I feel so bad for the lady whose picture is being used to scam people.
it has to be her, i have given her almost all, she has an angel's face
🎉
There’s men out there so desperate for affection that fall for this all the time.
[ would have gone for it like fried ice cream, she looks like Cary, my ol girlfriend!
What do you think all those MRA and "pickup artists" are? They are nothing but out there to exploit men who are desperate.
Most women are to blame in this also
I've gotten this text with the same picture of that woman a bunch of times I'm glad its being exposed.
Me too wtf glad i said nothing
I've gotten multiple "wrong" person text messages I'm sure were just scams. This scam and apparently the sexy redhead are getting exposed.
It's the fbi trying to track you.
@@jackmack3928 ok
If you have an old flip phone like me, you can’t see any pictures! Priceless.
No!
This can't be true.
She said she would be my girlfriend, and that we'd be together forever.
Please, save me Jeebus!
😂😂
Fak
I think she is saying truth dude. Go for it. You have to believe and have faith people love you. You are very good men, not bad men. Love is good, you show her how much you want the relationship to work and please her. Its how I got my wife and we are so in love. You to can have love friend.
You have to follow your heart! My wife of 20 something years came from a email, that I thought was a scam by some friends
Hahahaha 😂
My husband got this! Few months ago he came home and told me he got the weirdest text. She texted him talking bout how she thought he was cute and asked if he wanted to hook up. He said I think you have the wrong person, I'm happily married, and she said, "Oh, sorry, how embarrassing I guess it's not every day a cute guy gives you the wrong number." Yet she still replied again saying "Well you wanna hook up anyways, I'm not looking for anything serious, just a good time." And she sent her pic. He reiterated he was married and blocked her.
Wow....
Same happened to me, i wonder if this was only sent to men. I tried to talk and ask why they would send a picture to someone they dont know and they replied with a Nude, even though i didnt send a picture.
Don’t you mean blocked him? Chances are that it was a dude sending the texts
@Arnett Thayer lmao I'm a woman and got the same text from her 🤣 saying the same shit!! Even my bf got that weird text from that lady lol
@@arnettthayer5314 nope I'm a woman and I received a text like this yesterday..different girl
@@AuroraSun94 that's wild won't be long before they pick another person's pictures and start texting everyone again.
Scammers used my phone number for a while and I was getting angry call backs from people that did not believe me when I said I never called them. May these damn scammers rot in hell.
Same thing happened to me, it was really frustrating!
@@Jennylee20 It's horrible! And I've also been on the other end of it, calling back numbers that were used by the scammers only to have an angry person tell me they never called me. I'm glad people have caught on to this trick of theirs.
😂its called spoofing.
@@williecanuck5001 I know. They did it about 15 times to me already today.
Scammers often spoof groups of phone numbers in the local area. The "I want to reconnect" scam typically uses an area code in the general region. I have received both a call and text that were supposedly from my phone. Turned out they originated off shore, routed through a major hub, then the local telecom provider.
I have never received a text or phone call about reconnecting. My girl did though
They have moved to AWS virtual phone servers now. The scams go on. Maybe Google got wise to their scams and started blocking them from repeated calls to other countries.
... yeah, I thought I was the only one, to receive a scam call from my own phone number...smh... damn, even the scammers are getting desperate and careless...smh
Whats the "i want to reconnect" scam?
My spouse received a phone call from their own number. Damn spammers. I've had texts about packages claiming to be fed ex. I have a call blocker, my phone does a decent job of blocking spam texts, too.
Yeah man! Just forward it to the federal trade commission just for nothing to change and for your service company to do absolutely nothing to help you unless you pay a monthly fee! The best part is that you can't even block unknown numbers from reaching your iPhone; you will ALWAYS get notifications for them even if they're filtered.
Tell all this to my 15 year old android phone
I have RoboKiller and it jams up the majority of the calls, but it also jams up legit numbers too. For example the VA. I always have issues when the VA calls me.
Hey LUIOFFICIAL@ yep...try reporting unsolicited sexual harassing emails to Google and you get useless responses.
These sexual emails are using the Google Notifications logo and header...I had to turn off my email syncing to avoid harrassment in the middle of the night.
I blocked and threatened to report the email senders and they just doubled down by sending hundreds of explicit videos and pics of naked Russian women. I finally had to get a new number...Google Help Center was totally useless!!!
@@madmaximilian5783 That's sad
yet another reason to switch to android, i can turn off the blocked number notification
Just a few months ago this person texted me posing as that same woman, saying that she met a guy and he gave her a wrong number on purpose, finding me instead. Felt bad for her until the texts got weird with her flirting and saying she wanted to meet me. Girl, you just got stood up and now you're going to try to get with the stranger you texted instead? I didn't respond right away, and she kept sending similar messages. It scared me enough to block the number and delete the chain. Glad I did, but I feel bad for the actual person whose photo is being used for this scam. These scammers make this poor woman look desperate.
I remember getting a text like this a long time ago and I block the number immediately.
Lmao I got this text a couple weeks ago but I googled blue waffles, and this picture of a woman with dicks for tits and sent that. Probably shouldn’t have replied at all
All these scams are created by people who refuse to go to work EVERT DAY.
Not evertbody who refuses to go to work EVERT DAY is a phone scammer.
It’s ok to have a day off or more.
When is the last time you took a walk in nature or volunteered to help your community?
Why do you scam innocent people who only want friendship?
Hint: the answer is envy and hate.
Together these create greed.
@@christianrokicki Well said.
Wdym? This is their work
Boomer
Hey GrindTechiei just wanna thank you again for offering to help me out with scammers about a year ago. Your a stand up guy and I am greatful to you, glad your doing so well. Thanks again keep up the great work and ROCK ON WITH YOUR AWESOME SELF BROTHER,,
But we were going to get married in July...??? 😢 😭 😭 😭
I got that same picture of that girl. They didn't send a text with it. I blocked it right away. Because I've blocked others I got with other women's pictures I figured they was a scam a long time ago.
Me too
Not a much a scam as us getting dragged into a war over filthy ukraine.
They was rite ther boss
@@edge3620 what?
@@mattnewhouse1781 get a life troll.
Love how they use the old AOL dial tone just to remind us that this has to do with the Internet
I was maybe 40% sure it was a scam. So I just sent a tip pic.
Just the tip bb
lmao i hope you are joking
🤣🤣🤣
🤣😅🤣...nooooo....good one....🤣😅🤣😅🤣
I had gotten this text not too long ago, and I told them that I was a part of the cybercrimes unit of the City Police Department. Stopped texting me since.
Got this text told them they had the wrong number then got a nude. Immediately told them I was calling the police 😂😂😂 haven’t had any scam messages since then 😂😂😂
Most likely from an Indian guy
An India guy claiming his name is Justin or Waylon
Or Pakistani
Yea and its not helping Indian business
Imagine seeing your pic on tv and it's related to a scam.
Good case for not uploading pics of yourself online.
Try telling that to the millions of females who are addicted to the views and likes they get from posting their photos on the internet. They'll never stop, their vanity won't let them.
Lol I got it except she said “last night was amazing, let’s go for another round” 🤣🤣🤣
I literally have that woman’s picture on my phone…however I did try to pretend that I was a non emergency hotline. They replied every 2 minutes and when I told them that deputies where in their way to “her” exact location with a warrant and legal name, they didn’t respond for 40 minutes
Wow a whole 40 minutes lol
What did they respond with after 40 mins
I got the same woman too! I sent them link to FBI's website. Sent some Uncle Sam memes too saying The FBI Wants You 👈 🤣
I sent pics of blue waffle and innie wieners i found on google 🤣
Wow, you tried to trick them into believing a judge signed off on a warrant for a text message, 😂. They were laughing at you for 40 minutes, that's why they didn't reply. Brainiac, do you even know what is required to get a warrant issued? I'm dying here laughing at you.
At one time I was getting anywhere from 10 to 15 spam calls a day from different cities and even text that I knew was spam. And if you hang up or just don’t answer they use a different number from a different town to keep calling. If you block the number within 15 minutes they call from a different city.
Same here, it's a bitch, isn't it? And they all seem to be from India. 'Hello Sir, how are you doing?' Gag.
The service providers can tell who it is and just chose to do nothing about it as they make a little money off of it.
@@kennethwayne6857 the trick has always been. if you are getting one of those and you respond with your name in a bold big voice *Kenneth Wayne* instead of just *Dis Kennie*. they hang up listen to it , write the name down and call back and you'd think its legit. at that point you got played big time. and you are fixin' to cry.
My voicemail greeting is the phone lady saying, "The number you have dialed is no longer in service." ... I rarely get spam calls now.
"We're sorry, your call cannot be completed as dialed; Would you please hang up and try again" was a hoot back in the answering machine days LOL.
Get an iphone and use the call silence feature. Any calls not on your contacts goes straight to voice mail
Hey *GrindTechiei* just wanna thank you again for offering to help me out with scammers about a year ago. Your a stand up guy and I am greatful to you, glad your doing so well. Thanks again keep up the great work and ROCK ON WITH YOUR AWESOME SELF BROTHERr
Who?
Omg this is crazy!!! I can’t imagine my pictures going around like this!!
You can’t be a wolf wolf.
I’m just joking 🙃
Just wear niqab
Yeah sure, the FTC will get right on it.
This could be stopped if the FBI/NSA had the personnel to trace the texts. Unfortunately, all their time is spent surveilling people who speak up at PTA meetings.
Exactly why I ignore any calls or texts from any numbers I don’t recognize as part of my contacts. It’s a sin and a shame that there’s people in this world who wake up every day with only one goal for the day, to look for anyone their greedy, selfish, criminal self can scam and rob. The lake of fire awaits them unless they repent & turn to Jesus Christ as their Savior.😓
You know what else is wrong and a shame?? Jesus Spammers
You literally described every preacher of the world who "wake up every day with only one goal for the day, to look for anyone their greedy, selfish, criminal self can scam and rob"
I got this text scam on my phone some months ago. I did instinctively respond with “wrong number “. But then I immediately got a flirty text back along with the red head picture. I then just blocked the number.
Thankfully I don’t believe anything has happened to my number since, but it still sucks knowing that I made scammers aware my number is active
Same and same, now I know better🤦🏽♀️
Your first clue should be someone saying "it's been a long time" without giving their name, or using yours. If I was texting someone out of the blue after years, I'd probably make sure they knew who I was in case I wasn't in their contacts anymore.
I got the same photo on my scam call! I kept them going for a long time, making them think I was rich.
Stupidity is the cause of being scammed. Responding gives them nothing but validity to your number. There is no real danger unless you actually correspond with them.
It’s often very hard to tell the difference between ignorance and stupidity, especially at first. Even though the result is usually the same
@@swayback7375 That's true...my older cousin, who is not really used to having an Iphone, is always showing me messages and asking if it's important. My answer is always the same.....delete delete! It's not stupidity on her part, just not enough experience yet with this crap.
Respond to them or download the photo to your device. It very likely has something embedded in it to track you or log information typed into or stored on the phone.
As far as your location goes, if you use a VPN you won't have that problem because the IP address showed is located in another part of the country.
I wouldn't necessarily use the word "stupidity". Sometimes it's only ignorance
@@wtconroe879 You can't put a keylogger in a picture without a link "behind it", you'd have to click a link that downloaded a file that would contain the keylogger to get your typed information stored which you can't hide a link in a picture in a text, and you'd have to click a link to get your location tracked too. Neither are a possibility from saving a picture over text.
I got this text and messaged her back “where and when can we bang” 3 hours later she’s pregnante and we’re married, jokes on u!
Don't recognize block it ASAP
if someone could only tell me how to stop the dang calls from people trying to sell me a vehicle warranty on my 20 year old car
if you have a smart phone, switch to the Pixel phone. It screens calls. It will literally tell you possible spam when a spam calls you. Then you have a option to screen the call without picking up. Your phone talks to the callers in which you can select messages like who is this? what are you calling about? repeat yourself....wrong number. It's wonderful. Then with text messages- there is a spam folder separately from your text inbox. Spam messages will land in your spam inbox and not your regular text inbox. Get the Pixel - you won't be disappointed. Love it
If you respond with "I'd like to ask you about your car's extended warranty" it bends time and space.
Um, malware can be embedded in image files so downloading the photo probably wasn’t a good idea.
True but I think they said forward not save/download
@@julianiwhite the reporter said she downloaded the photo.
@@hotbluflame2933 she said forward 2:07
@John Doe that’s the safest way, but then the malware can’t be analyzed from the screenshot. The best thing to do is to have an IT security professional transfer the file to a machine set up with analysis tools.
@@julianiwhite she said she downloaded the photo at 00:26 and again at 00:50. Then she uploaded the downloaded file to Google Images.
I got this text. I considered cursing my husband out at the time, but I finally just deleted it.😂😂
These type of scams have been a thing for almost 2 decades. They just evolve with the advancement of tech & prey on people who aren’t the most tech savvy.
I NEVER ANSWER MY PHONE UNLESS I KNOW THE NUMBER OR IN MY CONTACT LIST I LET THEM LEAVE MESSAGE.
My phone is rarely ever on. And I never answer it, if its not in my contacts.
😂 once I got a call on my landline and the person was pretending to be from the state police... I hung up. A week later again, so I answered and asked the guy where he was going to spend eternity when he died. He tried to change the conversation but I wouldn't let him. He said I have to check with my boss. I said why, your boss won't be standing next to you when you stand before God ‼️ The guy hung up and I never got a call back from him again 🤣😂 Hopefully he will be thinking about the question I asked him
I wish I could find people that call or text my phone without my permission! I don't even turn my ringer on anymore unless I'm expecting an important call. Thanks a lot scammers and telemarketers!
I got a scam message where they wanted to catch up because we 'met at a party' and I gave her the number. The scammer keeps asking me to download telegram and whatsapp. I keep ignoring it.
I got a message like this once, and boy, my friend, played a really entertaining game with the scammer 😅
I get those all the time. Always forward it to 7726, never reply, block. Still get them. 🤦🏻♀️
I blocked it I got 1 on my what's app.
Omg I got that same exact message and photo. I thought it was a scam. I told her "sorry, you sent this to the wrong number." Her response made it obvious that she was fake so I stopped responding after that.
You should also set your phone up under text settings to not auto download/auto retrieve SMS or MMS text messages. The mere fact of having auto download not changed out means they can send a virus to your phone. So disable auto download/auto retrieve by disabling it in your text message settings. If you're not sure how to do that check with your phone's manufacturer manual.
what would you do if you had it set to allow mms text and you got one of these or a strange group text would a free antivirus app like kaspersky catch the malware from it or would i have to use a stronger diging tool to find it?
@@togethergutlesss No antivirus out there can guarantee things 100%, but it is better than nothing at all. The safest way is to not have automatic download check marked in your phone's settings. That is a guarantee you will not get anything from MMS or SMS texts as long as you don't download it. I tell folks all the time I don't do any downloads from them or clicky clicky links from them. I am not saying people can't be trusted, but you never know if some hacker or worse may have gotten hold of their phone. There are always malicious actors everywhere you go both online and in real. You're better off veering on the side of safety. Those potential dog photos aren't worth taking a chance.
I got the same text lmao blocked that number so fast
Thank you sir *Exelasupport* for helping us, God will keep blessing and promoting the work of your hands. Cheers my friend.
I got a "Long time, no see, Jack. How ya doin?"
Crazy thing is my name isn't Jack. Stupid catfish scammers!!!
There is some goofball phone scam where for some reason, they ask for the 800 number on the back of your credit card (after you give them a fake algorithmically correct generated CC number so you can keep stringing them along, of course). I always give them the FTC hotline 800 number...
Oh hell naw, my 18 year old sister got the same text message!! Same picture and similar message!! 🤨 They don't care who they text! Very scary stuff!
God loves all of us so much He came in the flesh to die and rise so that if we choose to accept Jesus as our one true Savior turning from our sins we may be gifted eternal salvation through Christ’s perfect sacrifice on the cross. Have a great day
I too am religious and believe in Jesus, but what does this message have to do with a report on a scam?
@@EmilyS-gk3st nothing. But people should hear the word since they could stumble across this while learning about the scam
This isn’t about texting but this reminds me of a situation when I used to work at an apartment complex. There was this website that will give us leads to call the clients. However after calling multiple clients I begin to realize that for some reason they never really put their information on the website. So like some people I would call they would be really bewildered like “how did you get my number?” So one time I called this lady who lived in New York, and not even five minutes later her husband calls, and he’s like “so are you gonna tell me is my wife trying to sneakily move to Texas behind my back?” And I told him I was like well we get generated leads you know blah blah blah. So him and his wife spent over 30 minutes calling us back over and over and over again in between their argument because she was literally about to get divorced by this man. Like crying, emotionally scarred at this point! It was wild I can’t believe I almost caused a divorce because I was calling to follow up on a lead! They definitely have issues before, I was just the icing on the cake 😂
That’s messed up. Her picture has wrongfully make her become the poster child image for spam.
Friends 1 to 3 is sufficient. The less I know about people and the less they know about me the better. Ron Swanson
Why would anyone reply to that? You know you don't know her!🙄
Isn’t there a setting on our phoned that doesn’t allow for incoming text messages from people that aren’t in out contact list, that we never called or that we never opted into via a token?
Lots of blocking apps out there..
Is there an option to "turn off" hyperlinks in SMS/Text messages? I'm so freaking tired of these scammers sending me links in the middle of the night. One of these days I'm going to screw up and accidentally click one.
Turning off hyperlinks in SMS/Text should be an option if it isn't...
😂try do not disturb at night..
It’s gotten out of hand and even if you don’t answer, the phone never stops ringing. So the best I’ve been able to do is enable the block that only allows my phone to ring or notify me if it’s a number already in my contacts. Does make it harder when doing normal things and I have to ask which number a business may be calling me from to enter it or to remind them to please leave a message I can physically check to see if they have called as my phone will not make a sound if they call. After having to repeat why I use the setting most are cool with it (govt agencies never are) and I’m happy to go elsewhere if they do have a problem. Just the way the world works anymore.
First I hit decline on the first ring, and they call back immediately about 6 times, so then I block the number, then they call from a similar number, and the cycle continues about 10 times a day(no exaggeration). How the h*ll can you win?
Poor thing. Our lives are a struggle. A strife. I agree.
It’s annoying how often this happens. Even blocking and reporting them doesn’t do anything. So now I’ve resorted to turning off all notifications. Yes I do miss the timing of important texts but it’s the only thing I can do to have some sanity
I got a text last week of this gal. The text said something about how she saw me at bar and missed me. Wanted to get together. Something of that nature. BUT the text went into my spam folder. You see I got the Google Pixel phone. Spam messages land in my 'spam' folder, not my regular text inbox. I got an alert with the spam message, read it and didn't even bother with anything else. My Pixel phone also alerts me if a spam message is calling. It tells me possible spam so I don't pick up. I love this Pixel phone!
@@timewontstop4864only collection agencies do that. Scammers dont waste thier time..
Several guys that I worked with got this text. One even got into a text exchange with the scammer. The scammer tried to convince him that they had a previous relationship.
Yup, I got that text and the amount of fun I had by screwing that scammer was very enjoyable. That scammer at the end that idiot was finally admitted that he is frustrated talking to me. Scam the scammers bruh it's fun. Just don't click Any links or download any things. And don't give them any sensitive info to them.
Mashallah, ahmed, please show us a screencap of the exchange we want to chuckle.
lol, sure you did. NOT.
Lol love it
I got that same “flirty text message” a few weeks ago, made the mistake of responding they had the wrong number.
Same and instantly regretted it after she ended up sending me a nude. Freaked me the hell out! Blocked and deleted
Me too!!!
i got the exact one too, once i got the pics i realized it was a bot, called it a bot, it told me i was being weird so i told it i was calling the police and it stopped lol
Rofl!!! I can't stop laughing long enough to address how failingly un-adept your reporters are! Thanks for teaching everyone over 100 how to search stuff on Google! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mine was the same , “but said last night “
😂 I didn’t open & blocked number
I feel bad for the girl in the photo
Everytime someone wrong texts me i send them a link to a picture of Ugandan knuckles without context
It amazes me how just plain stupid people are in falling for this kind of scams..
eh i kinda almost did...but when I read it I was like I don't go to bars and don't recognize the picture....so i just left it. plus it went to my spam folder
lol I remember the first time news reported this Haha cant believe the wrong number people still tryna pull it off hahaha
I've had multiple texts like this from both my regular IM and WhatsApp. However, mine was provided of Asian women. They all started the same, asking if I am John and can't remember because they got this number from the airport. Since my first encounter, I've been blocking every single one that comes through.
ME TOOO on WhatsApp shows as if they are entrepreneurs thank GOD I didn’t get nudes cause only to the first one I replied all others blocked!
I got that once and I ignored it lol
Considering how many real messages I get like this every day and how little attention I give them it's impossible for such a weak grift to lure me at all.
Sure you do buddy...
@@BlamingBuddha I don't know about every day, but I get these about every 2 or 3 months. Now I just respond NO and block immediately. If I don't block they'll keep texting throughout the day from the same number. I don't know how its a "scam", but its definitely annoying.
Incel making up stories.
Sure you do buddy
You can't scam an alpha Chad 💯