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!!

@dopefreshness77

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂 damn I hope you told her off for doubting you !!

@twilightlover2443

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@trinawms3749

2 жыл бұрын

Wow...

@IMABEAST191

2 жыл бұрын

😂 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.

@crimsoniron937

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@catherinesyme901

2 жыл бұрын

@Raymond Anderson lmao

@poncho828

2 жыл бұрын

Why do you ignore messages from your friends?

@AlphaQHard

2 жыл бұрын

@@poncho828 I dont always feel like talking, its not like I owe it to them.

@Renee1110

2 жыл бұрын

😂👍🏼

@jaywholoveseveryone1721

2 жыл бұрын

😂

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)

@realitywins6457

2 жыл бұрын

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

@SpicyMang0s

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao you should make it into a KZread channel. I’d subscribe to that

@boohere2

2 жыл бұрын

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

@plixplop

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@chegadesuade

2 жыл бұрын

@@SpicyMang0s Same! Let's brainstorm names, I'd go with "Truckin and Trollin"

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!

@alisoncole3211

2 жыл бұрын

Same this happened to me too! I’m glad to know I did the right thing by just blocking it

@scee8474

2 жыл бұрын

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

@ComeAlongKay

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@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.

@dads1962

16 күн бұрын

How, if u blocked them?

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!

@JustAlanIsCool

2 жыл бұрын

Even simpler for me since I don't have voicemail 😂🤣

@AlphaQHard

2 жыл бұрын

Dont even block the number, its pointless. They use a number randomizer and always call from different ones

@benben6054

2 жыл бұрын

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

@preston74

2 жыл бұрын

True friends and family don't leave vm. 🤗

@geraldgreauxjr.7106

2 жыл бұрын

The reason I never set up my voicemail. I answer no calls without a name attached to it from my contacts.

Lol I got same text 🤣

@Eeddee408

2 жыл бұрын

Same hahaha

@knightoftheislandcounter3330

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, it's fun to mess with them

@QuetzalcoatlMexica

2 жыл бұрын

Ha I did too

@tiredoftheworld4834

2 жыл бұрын

Same!

@tiredoftheworld4834

2 жыл бұрын

Stupidly, I responded

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.

Share this with your elders too. A lot of parents and grandparents aren’t aware of scammers.

@monroefuller7028

2 жыл бұрын

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

@cgasucks

2 жыл бұрын

God help us if clouds try to scam old people after yelling at them.

@markazain8996

2 жыл бұрын

This scammer sent me nude. Should I show my grandma that too?

@josereyes191

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@sirgoodman1598

11 ай бұрын

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

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

@administrator7393

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Tiffani_AnnA

2 жыл бұрын

@@cephalonplant4087 💯

@mariefairie

2 жыл бұрын

Yep welcome to the 21st century bud

@svendays

2 жыл бұрын

If they're not in the US, then there is only so much law enforcement can do.

@kyleyang4711

2 жыл бұрын

@@cephalonplant4087 Fr🤣

I hate scammers.

@kennethwayne6857

2 жыл бұрын

Get in line.

@ssjwes

2 жыл бұрын

@@kennethwayne6857 is there a line for wanting them executed?

@tedbonedog

2 жыл бұрын

It's so good to hear someone finally speaking up against scammers

@kennethwayne6857

2 жыл бұрын

@@ssjwes I'd be on it!

@MrPbip

2 жыл бұрын

Beat the living shit out of one when you find one then..

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.

@lovergworl_

2 жыл бұрын

You did the right thing. That’s mad creepy wow lol

@Freya_934

2 жыл бұрын

SAME!

@simoneymone89

2 жыл бұрын

Same 😂😂

@lovelyfluer

2 жыл бұрын

Yea same thing happened to me. They responded like oh well do you wanna hang out anyway?

@kaleibigelow7611

2 жыл бұрын

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 sent them a photo of my cats fluffy behind and they left me alone after that 🤣🤣🤣

@williecanuck5001

4 ай бұрын

They usually put you on a list to really piss you off when you do that..they resell lists.

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.

@ichigokurosaki7762

2 жыл бұрын

Well at least she now knows she's hot. Depends how she took it and if she got harassed

@manuelg4867

2 жыл бұрын

she has some nice tats though.....not that I would know or anything.

@elknothin3403

2 жыл бұрын

@@ichigokurosaki7762 she has an OF of course she knows she's hot

@ichigokurosaki7762

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@jiwonverse

2 жыл бұрын

@@elknothin3403 who is it?

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!

@jayluv_xo

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@joltjolt5060

2 жыл бұрын

King Isaac! Lol.

@ACommenterOnYouTube

2 жыл бұрын

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 ...

@paperchaser4176

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha the good old days

@krislatoya7556

2 жыл бұрын

I'm still seeing those in my work junk mail. The latest 1 wants to invest in my country.

If you have an old flip phone like me, you can’t see any pictures! Priceless.

I feel so bad for the lady whose picture is being used to scam people.

@gatoslokosforever

Ай бұрын

it has to be her, i have given her almost all, she has an angel's face

@CabdilahiAxmed-pi6hx

24 күн бұрын

🎉

I'm all the way out here in Japan and I still got this shit 🤣

@hispanicshovel1485

2 жыл бұрын

N WAY 💀

@zachpayne5306

2 жыл бұрын

Yooo wtf lol

@momtingz9447

2 жыл бұрын

😳

@jackmack3928

2 жыл бұрын

It's the fbi trying to track you

@ThePhrozenPhoenix

2 жыл бұрын

How? Don’t you have a Japanese SIM card? Everyone just talks on Line there, why/how are you using American SMS texting?

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

@sbffsbrarbrr

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Zzz2x

2 жыл бұрын

the nude could’ve been annoying else as well

@Kat_Beezy

2 жыл бұрын

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

@Roobsrandomz

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@angelsweet9611

2 жыл бұрын

bruh, "this girl" sent me her photo

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.!!!……

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....

@hampdog5716

2 жыл бұрын

There's a comment on this video just like this, wow

@adrialee8149

2 жыл бұрын

Thats crazy!

@inhumanfilth681

2 жыл бұрын

Not if you have a propperly functioning relationship

@madmaximilian5783

2 жыл бұрын

@@hampdog5716 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.

@Seth-mu3wo

2 жыл бұрын

No rational adult thinks this is real. If your partner thinks this is "evidence" of cheating, you're in a bad relationship.

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. 😂😂😂😂

@jusletursoulglobaby

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣 giiiiiirrrrrellllll LMFAOO your trackable cc going to help. they missed the memo

@LegendaryManSlayer93

2 жыл бұрын

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.”

@tomr3422

2 жыл бұрын

I glad you got away clean, just lay low for a while

@jusletursoulglobaby

2 жыл бұрын

@@LegendaryManSlayer93 LMFAOO this is hilarious

@royharper2003

2 жыл бұрын

do you have an OnlyFans?

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

5 ай бұрын

Same thing happened to me, it was really frustrating!

@EM-mw2qr

5 ай бұрын

@@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.

@williecanuck5001

4 ай бұрын

😂its called spoofing.

@EM-mw2qr

4 ай бұрын

@@williecanuck5001 I know. They did it about 15 times to me already today.

Love how they use the old AOL dial tone just to remind us that this has to do with the Internet

"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.

@tvdinner325

2 жыл бұрын

Although, might be naked Madison Cawthorn, at a retrumpliKKKan "party"!

@Unknown_Ooh

2 жыл бұрын

You can find those photos online with reverse image search.

@titodakidd6433

2 жыл бұрын

@@Unknown_Ooh what is a reverse image search?

@tourmii

2 жыл бұрын

It’s not women doing it weirdo lol

@angelolopez99

2 жыл бұрын

Weirdo

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??” 😂😂😂

@sbffsbrarbrr

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, it's often the really nice people that fall for this crap....most of the rest of us are pretty jaded by now!

@jadapinkett1656

2 жыл бұрын

@@sbffsbrarbrr Nice people are weak people.

@delix8869

2 жыл бұрын

@@sbffsbrarbrr those people are called “useful idiots”

@Bunny11344

2 жыл бұрын

Luckily Idc about kids or pregnant women I block anyone who l don’t know that text me

@MamiTT237

2 жыл бұрын

@@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 KZread! 🙄

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 😂😂😂

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 am a small time landlord and I get multiple texts and calls every week wanting to buy my property.

@squadabingo9113

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah good thing your keen to these tactics. Imagine being oblivious and being cleaned out. Life ruined

@Below-Zero.

2 жыл бұрын

We don't care.

@freaknpurtorikan1659

2 жыл бұрын

@@Below-Zero. Sweet Home Alabama.

@Rigoberto365-

2 жыл бұрын

@@Below-Zero. and why should I give a fuck

@chuckruckus3648

2 жыл бұрын

Mines worth like 750… Send me 1.5 mill it’s yours

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.

@motionsick

2 жыл бұрын

AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

@basket6460

2 жыл бұрын

was a scam

@Analymous

2 жыл бұрын

I heard of someone that fell victim to the home depot gift card scam lol

@TROOPERfarcry

2 жыл бұрын

@@Analymous Well it wasn't me -- I gave them "Lowe's Improvement" gift cards *specifically* so that I wouldn't be scammed.

@SunShine-vo8kj

2 жыл бұрын

@@TROOPERfarcry 😫🤣🤣😂😂Good one😜

Lol I got it except she said “last night was amazing, let’s go for another round” 🤣🤣🤣

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.😓

@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS

5 ай бұрын

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"

There’s men out there so desperate for affection that fall for this all the time.

@oldmanfromoc7684

2 жыл бұрын

[ would have gone for it like fried ice cream, she looks like Cary, my ol girlfriend!

@herlandercarvalho

2 жыл бұрын

What do you think all those MRA and "pickup artists" are? They are nothing but out there to exploit men who are desperate.

@martinr8278

4 ай бұрын

Most women are to blame in this also

No! This can't be true. She said she would be my girlfriend, and that we'd be together forever. Please, save me Jeebus!

@swz370

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@adaniel2224

2 жыл бұрын

Fak

@danhenderson5198

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@tomr3422

2 жыл бұрын

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

@JustineCarissa

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha 😂

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.

😂 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

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 😂

@leilanielena1968

2 жыл бұрын

Same lmao

@nelsonmuntz3194

2 жыл бұрын

I got that exact same one 🤣

@leeleeb7413

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! I almost replied to tell her that she had the wrong number, but I ended up just deleting it instead…thank God!!!

@LittleRiahSunshine

2 жыл бұрын

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

@markazain8996

2 жыл бұрын

Got the after shower one. It’s disgusting

I've gotten this text with the same picture of that woman a bunch of times I'm glad its being exposed.

@vcassano9775

2 жыл бұрын

Me too wtf glad i said nothing

@mrbyamile6973

2 жыл бұрын

I've gotten multiple "wrong" person text messages I'm sure were just scams. This scam and apparently the sexy redhead are getting exposed.

@jackmack3928

2 жыл бұрын

It's the fbi trying to track you.

@REIVAXMEELAS

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackmack3928 ok

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.

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.

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.

@carrieanncancino5118

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

@mattnewhouse1781

2 жыл бұрын

Not a much a scam as us getting dragged into a war over filthy ukraine.

@edge3620

2 жыл бұрын

They was rite ther boss

@JeanneMarie_Bby

2 жыл бұрын

@@edge3620 what?

@JeanneMarie_Bby

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattnewhouse1781 get a life troll.

I remember getting a text like this a long time ago and I block the number immediately.

@melanie3247

2 жыл бұрын

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

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.

@togethergutlesss

3 ай бұрын

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?

@happycows

3 ай бұрын

@@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 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!

All these scams are created by people who refuse to go to work EVERT DAY.

@christianrokicki

2 жыл бұрын

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?

@christianrokicki

2 жыл бұрын

Hint: the answer is envy and hate. Together these create greed.

@kennethwayne6857

2 жыл бұрын

@@christianrokicki Well said.

@tourmii

2 жыл бұрын

Wdym? This is their work

@jadapinkett1656

2 жыл бұрын

Boomer

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.

@sergiox03

2 жыл бұрын

I have never received a text or phone call about reconnecting. My girl did though

@dirtyminerapparel

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jameandthegiantpeach2273

2 жыл бұрын

... 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

@BlamingBuddha

2 жыл бұрын

Whats the "i want to reconnect" scam?

@FluffballKitties

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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...

I got a message like this once, and boy, my friend, played a really entertaining game with the scammer 😅

But we were going to get married in July...??? 😢 😭 😭 😭

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....

@arnettthayer5314

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@kxp.1496

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t you mean blocked him? Chances are that it was a dude sending the texts

@NiddyGritty

2 жыл бұрын

@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

@ChicagoNicky

2 жыл бұрын

@@arnettthayer5314 nope I'm a woman and I received a text like this yesterday..different girl

@arnettthayer5314

2 жыл бұрын

@@NiddyGritty that's wild won't be long before they pick another person's pictures and start texting everyone again.

I got this text and told them that I was in fact a Henderson’s Crematorium “you kill ‘em we grill em” and then promptly blocked her and deleted the chat

I got this text. I considered cursing my husband out at the time, but I finally just deleted it.😂😂

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.

@RiderBlitz1.0

2 жыл бұрын

Tell all this to my 15 year old android phone

@Cantetinza17

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@madmaximilian5783

2 жыл бұрын

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!!!

@Cantetinza17

2 жыл бұрын

@@madmaximilian5783 That's sad

@AnvilMAn603

2 жыл бұрын

yet another reason to switch to android, i can turn off the blocked number notification

Most likely from an Indian guy

@kaveh1836

2 жыл бұрын

An India guy claiming his name is Justin or Waylon

@What.The.Fluff.

2 жыл бұрын

Or Pakistani

@goojedooje660

2 жыл бұрын

Yea and its not helping Indian business

If you respond with "I'd like to ask you about your car's extended warranty" it bends time and space.

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.

I was maybe 40% sure it was a scam. So I just sent a tip pic.

@PurpleRanger69

2 жыл бұрын

Just the tip bb

@arnettthayer5314

2 жыл бұрын

lmao i hope you are joking

@seekerofsouls74

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@geraldgreauxjr.7106

2 жыл бұрын

🤣😅🤣...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.

When we were young running to the phone was the thing to do. Now days we ignore unknown callers and don't open unknown text... sad but TRUE...

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 😂

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

@freaknpurtorikan1659

2 жыл бұрын

Wow a whole 40 minutes lol

@BlamingBuddha

2 жыл бұрын

What did they respond with after 40 mins

@starrl1026

2 жыл бұрын

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 👈 🤣

@whitneyyvonne977

2 жыл бұрын

I sent pics of blue waffle and innie wieners i found on google 🤣

@TheRoadhammer379

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

Same here, it's a bitch, isn't it? And they all seem to be from India. 'Hello Sir, how are you doing?' Gag.

@tomr3422

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@PHlophe

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Pinky-lg3lz

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@herculesbrofister265

2 жыл бұрын

Get an iphone and use the call silence feature. Any calls not on your contacts goes straight to voice mail

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.

Everytime someone wrong texts me i send them a link to a picture of Ugandan knuckles without context

Imagine seeing your pic on tv and it's related to a scam. Good case for not uploading pics of yourself online.

@BackwoodsFilms

7 ай бұрын

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.

Yeah sure, the FTC will get right on it.

Wow LOL, I got this exact picture with texts a few years ago. They asked “how do I look?” And I literally gave “her” advice on how to tweeze her eyebrows 😂🤦‍♀️ I did know that it was a scammer which is why I was mean but I didn’t know that it could hurt me to respond to it. I feel bad for whoever this woman is though and I hope she found out that her picture was being used.

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!

Omg this is crazy!!! I can’t imagine my pictures going around like this!!

@kxp.1496

2 жыл бұрын

You can’t be a wolf wolf. I’m just joking 🙃

@yasmine9378

2 жыл бұрын

Just wear niqab

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

@HilaryIsOkayssss

2 жыл бұрын

Same and same, now I know better🤦🏽‍♀️

I just got a wrong number over the weekend. No photo, but the name I knew. However, it wouldn't be the person that I knew because they don't have my number. So I immediately blocked. A long time ago I got a call from someone saying they were my friend. They were stuck in London and needed money. I looked at my friend sitting next to me on the couch and said, "Girl you're stuck in LONDON"! "How did you Astro project"?! As soon as they heard me say that they hung up. I have RoboKiller now, but be careful cause it does its thing for legit calls as well.

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?

@williecanuck5001

4 ай бұрын

Lots of blocking apps out there..

I got the same photo on my scam call! I kept them going for a long time, making them think I was rich.

Don't recognize block it ASAP

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.

@giancarloorsini1576

2 жыл бұрын

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 this exact text a few months ago and I knew it was a scam at the start but I messed with the person for close to two hours before I asked her to be honest and tell me if anyone actually falls for this scam. She stopped texting me at that point. I made sure not to click on any links

I NEVER ANSWER MY PHONE UNLESS I KNOW THE NUMBER OR IN MY CONTACT LIST I LET THEM LEAVE MESSAGE.

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

@boohere2

2 жыл бұрын

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

MY-GOOOOD…. I HAD THIS EXACT SAME TEXT, PIC AND GIRL TOO!!!! I Live in Alaska! This came last November!

I got that text!! These scammers are coming after me hardcore af I hate it. They actually tracked down some college friends of mine and asked if they were still in touch with me. They said no and they said they were looking for me cuz I had “committed a bunch of crimes and there was a warrant out for my arrest” they were trying to find me to arrest me. Both of my friends reached out to me to tell me about that and they were kinda weirded out cuz the people were really aggressive. I think one of my friends believed them cuz she was kinda weird talking to me. She told her partner who apparently “looked me up on some govt websites,” and said there were records under my name with all this crazy criminal shit (I have an extremely common first and last name). I told her I don’t even know what’s going on then they tried to call me and tell me that police were looking for me. It was low key scary at first cuz they were hella intense about it all, like they were purposely stirring my emotions to unseat my judgment. But I already know if cops have a warrant out for you they’re aren’t going to call you looking for you, cuz it’ll probably send you on the run, they’ll just show up where they think you are and get you. But I was like damn there fools are hella extra and ruthless, involving people around me and trying to conjure up a whole ass situation. I wish there were better ways to block these people cuz there’s so much happening on my phone daily. Be safe out there people!! ✨🙏🏽💕

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

2 жыл бұрын

It’s often very hard to tell the difference between ignorance and stupidity, especially at first. Even though the result is usually the same

@sbffsbrarbrr

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@wtconroe879

2 жыл бұрын

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.

@EmilyS-gk3st

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't necessarily use the word "stupidity". Sometimes it's only ignorance

@ITheorey

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

My phone is rarely ever on. And I never answer it, if its not in my contacts.

That’s messed up. Her picture has wrongfully make her become the poster child image for spam.

It sux when your lonely and this sparks a feel good moment, then realize your being scammed. It’s hard to have common sense when your down in a hole.

Touch & hold -> Report Spam & BLOCK the number forever. That is ALL you EVER have to do - it's like people REALLY, REALLY WANTED to be scammed.

@markazain8996

2 жыл бұрын

First off. I didn’t know it was a scam. I replied wrong number to them. They asked if I wanted to chat. I said no countless times. They sent me a buttnaked photo and said what do you think of these. I immediately block the number after that. No loss. Just a little nightmare.

@IntheMOMENT22173

4 ай бұрын

you are the exact person who could get scammed because you are overly cocky.

I blocked it I got 1 on my what's app.

I feel bad for the (surely innocent) girl whose photo is being used! What a way to go viral 😬

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’m glad I watched this. I did get this text a couple months ago. I only responded because I immediately knew it was someone trying to get something out of me. My immediate thought was that it was the girl in the photo and she was trying to look for a way to earn money through prostitution. I feel bad now. But I get the same type stuff in my emails so it seemed the same. I was very rude to say the least.

I got this last month, it was the weirdest thing ever…

@bernadettemaille2609

2 жыл бұрын

me too almost got me for 1500

They start by saying text was meant for someone else, then they're overly nice.

I get those all the time. Always forward it to 7726, never reply, block. Still get them. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Um, malware can be embedded in image files so downloading the photo probably wasn’t a good idea.

@julianiwhite

2 жыл бұрын

True but I think they said forward not save/download

@hotbluflame2933

2 жыл бұрын

@@julianiwhite the reporter said she downloaded the photo.

@julianiwhite

2 жыл бұрын

@@hotbluflame2933 she said forward 2:07

@hotbluflame2933

2 жыл бұрын

@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.

@hotbluflame2933

2 жыл бұрын

@@julianiwhite she said she downloaded the photo at 00:26 and again at 00:50. Then she uploaded the downloaded file to Google Images.

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...

@williecanuck5001

4 ай бұрын

😂try do not disturb at night..

I got it too. And today got a new one. It said. “Hey I’m texting random numbers looking for friends with a photo of a hoochie”

I knew this was a scam! when I got the text, no woman is Fantasizing about me unless it’s ways to avoid me talking to them.

I've been getting the same kind of texts but it's an attractive Asian girl named Lisa and Anna. She has said she is from Vietnam and Singapore and currently lives in Toronto and she often visits her parents who live close to me. So far she has used a Boston, Minneapolis, and Seattle number.

LMAO, I got this and responded "Lady, I have no idea who you are."

@SayHii2MyChoppa

Жыл бұрын

I got one today💀

That’s disgusting’ “I got a flirty text…” as if that’s ok. Some media are cowards

I have tried to report things like this multiple times. My reports have all vanished into cyberspace. The reporting numbers appear to be as big a scam as the scams themselves.

incoming text: "what's up, i was just fantasizing about you earlier this morning" outgoing text: "this phone is owned by a danish waffle"