JohnnyGossamer
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Yeah, "Lin," my life is disappointing too.
Nov 5, 2023 10:06 PM
JohnnyGossamer
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Yeah, "Lin," my life is disappointing too.
mikeatike
Googles text message responses are always hilarious "yes, you did."
Zega000
I used to get these when I used WhatsApp
psychologisttheologist
That woman's images have been used to try to scam me twice, and it's the second time I've seen "her" on imgur, too. Is she some influencer who got her photos stolen, or did she sign up to be the face of all these scammers?
PlankTableGo
These days, half of Tinder is populated by AI-Generated Asian women.
neilwatkinsfromaccounting
I think I would know if I was a yoga teacher?…
Totallynotarealbear
I doubt it's a moment of honesty. I'm sure the next line was "this is not scam!" Followed shortly by the scam.
Detacheddavid
That's spam v. 2023. And I'm afraid they are here stay.
ALLCAPSROCK
definitely AI generated, she has extra eyebrows!
HelpfulCorn
I would have enjoyed this one because I *am* a yoga teacher
thisnamewasstillavailable
I humored an interaction like this once. She claimed not to be a bot or a scammer, and then immediately proceeded to tell me about short term, high yield precious metal investments...
CortexDagger
I used to get these all the time. I would talk to them like a they were a person and essentially waste their time by keeping them on the hook a little. Haven't gotten one in quite some time.
hell0
"You look AI generated" lol
Like2Fox
You talking to a bot
ToCrushYourEnemiesSeeThemDrivenBeforeYouToHearTheLamentation
@op why are they always looking for Anna?
AyatollahBahloni
Crypto sales are one tactic, but most of these people are catfishers, hoping to rope someone in to a "lonely hearts" scam.
admiralawesome4213
BRUH I RECENTLY BROKE ONE OF THEM. dude was from japan. kind of an asshole but it was nice to see after dozens of attempts they finally got the memo that it wasnt gonna work. the insane part was they ASKED me for suggestions on how to change the scam to succeed...at scamming people. I genuinely didnt expect that
superanth
Loved this. I was watching a scamming the scammer video on Youtube and during one call the scammer didn't even care anymore and talked about how he'd found a new job and was leaving the con business soon. He confessed that he'd felt terrible scamming people and couldn't get out of there fast enough.
frood42
LOL
HughGRecti0n
InfocalypseRising
What, you mean you don't just randomly ask people about their precious metal investments after exchanging three text messages?
RTK4740
Wait—you’re selling cryptocurrency? Can you text me? Please? I want in.
CedricDur
You mean you don't send a selfie to a random number you just dialed and who said you had the wrong number?
FuryFuryMon
What you dont ask for peoples personal and private investments and OR credit card number the first time you speak with soemone?
Trankia12
Yes, you can give your credit card number now if you want.
CrunchWrapFrappuccinoo
I'm sick off these scam text messages.
Raikupath
Kinda feel like there is something either part of the system you're in or something else because I haven't ever gotten a single scam message or scam call ever in my life.
mikeatike
The current scam I get is emails and text messages and voicemails "this is usps, we have a package for you". The call and text blocking intercepts them 100% but my emails scam blocking sucks.
Steller1984
When this happens to me I send them a pic of a woman shitting in a man’s mouth
Totallynotarealbear
Do you have to Google that or do you just have that for... Reasons?
Steller1984
Mind your business!
xizar
I could see photoshopping, but AI? The hands look fine.
BronzeLantern
Hands are getting better. If you look at... certain sites... which feature AI generated content, the hands can look perfectly normal. Not sure if this is a result of the AI getting better or touch-ups done after the initial image is generated though.
JohnnyGossamer
Her face looks too smooth. She looks like she's in soft focus or something. It may be a really strong filter.
Gruesslibaer
I always reply with photos of the Tiananmen Square massacre and then suddenly the messages stop.
colderfish
That's brilliant
TorPemBoy
I'm going to start doing this for all the Chinese spam calls i get. Just text them back a message of TankMan
Gruesslibaer
Oh yeah, it works for calls too.
CatBeagler
I like to invoke lucifer to send his higher archdemons to follow them and cut them off from the presence of all holy things. I do hope some of these people have sought out spiritual expellations because of me.
bridgebrain
BubblesTheFish
lol
AisforApple
FentuckyCriedKhicken
The tone is much like ai as well, or directly translated from google or deepl. There’re so many scammers now the world feels like a huge garbage dump because of those people. Most of them are Chinese and Indian by population factor, because it’s easy to hire, in China there’s a new scam which someone gets you to FaceTime then use your face to activate bank accounts to get credit cards or something.
sirava
For years I would let the scammer make their pitch and then say, "your mother's ashamed of you.". They would hang up or say my sister is a whore and hang up. One time the person cried. Only happened the once and I felt a little bad. But only a little.
dontblamemeivotedforkotos
R/thathappened
BDBottom
I had one mumble "fuck you mudda". I answered: "Fuck my mother? Lick your father's shit from my cockhead." "Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck yo"
BobAllen2004
Heh, I do something similar and ask things like "Is this what you wanted to do for a career, and more importantly, do you tell your mother what you do, and would she be proud of you?"
keystotheairlock
If pushed, I'll bust out something like "I'm truly sorry that never on your useless, miserable life will you ever be able to look yourself in the mirror, even once, and say the words "I love you.' It'll be the cruelest lie you'll never hear." Last time it went there, *they* blocked *me.* 🙃
CrispyD
On Facebook, if I see one of those duct cleaning scammers, I reply with "does your family know you are just a scammer? Is your mother proud of you?"
jerbern1
Mom is two cubicles down doing the same thing.
FreaksOnWheels
Yep, same. They get pretty mad after that lol.
korndogg83
Overextendeddullard
I remember this video
dataengineer
She actually gets paid for her hard labor
ReelPoop
sauce?
READTHISUSERNAME
Eva Elfie
certainlynotaserialkiller
The Internet.
GendouLovesDucklings
Eva Elfie. You know where /view_video.php?viewkey=ph5cdf07d5bbe31
ReelPoop
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lncorrectGrammerNazi
BladeTurMoiL
Easily makes my top 5 performer.
ibrokemyselflmao
Would Mr Rogers be disappointed in you?
jerbern1
Probably
CedricDur
I called one a scammer. They got mad and called ME a scammer.
SpamYarBlockers
Ooh self scam. Those are rare
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
Those recommended responses lol. "Yes, you did"
Clickbot9000
Okay
MrSmilingDeath
Makes it feel like a choose-your-own-adventure book
runtu
I received an SMS from our alerting system because a client's system went offline. My phone only recommended "Haha" as the response.
mikeatike
Google always suggests sarcastic replies. Gotts be careful not to click one when replying to my boss lol.
2graves
Yeah it's pretty tone deaf
mikeatike
I do prefer it, as opposed to chatgpt trying and failing miserably to figure out what I mean.
BurningVeryImportantThings
I've had more success with scammers over the years by focusing on the absurdity of their script. Being funny is fun but it is not effective.
BeagleHound
I ask them to call me back on my other number, then give them the number of my local FBI office.
BurningVeryImportantThings
I have it down to an art. when my mom or dad get scam callers I get them to drop their number just by pointing out how stupid the script is.
BurningVeryImportantThings
The key to success against scammers is to remember they are on a script. Even the best scammer can't account for sudden onset psychoses.
ActionJohnnie
What is the airspeed of a laden swallow?
MickeyCallahan
Laden with how much weight?
sCybrid
"yes"
Trankia12
African or European?
KrondorMocker
aaaAAAAGHHHHhhhhh!!!!
redsmerf
"I'm in apparel manufacturing" = "I work in a damn sweatshop and this is my scam to get out"
blindbyakko
Some of these people were also victims of scams( fake job postings that they took to help provide for their family). After they are scammed they are used for various jobs. one being that they are trained to scam people so they can pay off their debt that constantly gets bigger and bigger. Those are probably the lucky ones...
AgainstMethod
It sounds like a Bangladeshi scammer's idea of a generic business person's job.
Trankia12
Honestly if they just said that, they might actually have a better chance at getting the money out of sympathy.
Hurro
Exploit or be exploited.
scatter
In this world it's milk or be milked
CooCooCaChew
spookyu
Not exactly, it's often entire call centers or offices running these scams. They do it under the guise of something else in a country with few labor laws, they'll have some scripted baseline scam and just go from there. There's a good YouTube channel where a dude manages to get into the web/security cams of one these places in India, pretty interesting. Don't recall the name.
echoawoo
Don't hate the player, hate the game. They're just trying to survive same as us and they found an employer to give them pittance in a world stacked against them to try to scam us.
OlaphOfTheNorth
Almost everyone who does this does it in connection with (read: under the boot of) organized crime and a ton of them are being outright physically forced to do it: https://www.csis.org/analysis/cyber-scamming-new-destination-human-trafficking-victims
OlaphOfTheNorth
part of why it's so hard to get even a hint of real humanity out of so many of them: they're terrified
aetherfox
Someone on a scam subreddit pointed out that a lot of these people are probably being trafficked, and are required to meet quotas to keep loved ones safe. I'm sure plenty aren't, and are just scumbags, but it makes it harder to just hate all of them.
mikeatike
Ehh, or they are suckers that believe bullshit stories. I'm gonna guess "a lot" is a huge overestimation.
OlaphOfTheNorth
You wrong tho: https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2022/Hundreds-arrested-and-millions-seized-in-global-INTERPOL-operation-against-social-engineering-scams
Youhavinagiraffe
As fun (and completely justified) as stuff like scam-baiting is. I'm fairly sure most of them lead miserable lives. Like most criminals, they don't go into it because they've chosen instead of a bunch of other good opportunities in life
timmaybanks
Ehhh in India where the avg wage is 400 a month some of these guys make 4000 a week.
BlindGardener
Many of the scam places operate almost exactly like, well, ordinary telemarketing call centers, except they’re selling a scam.
echoawoo
Works this way in America, too, only we have one federal agency and the individual state agriculture departments (for some fuckin reason, why was I licensed by the department of agriculture to work telemarketing I have no idea) to take them down.
I have worked for 6 call centers in my life so far. I hope no more are added to that list and I can keep my current career. Of those 6, 4 were outright scams of the people we were calling, one was an international medical insurance scam company ...
echoawoo
That is based out of Canada but takes all of their income from American Healthcare by scheduling medical appointments I'm pretty sure they never bothered to provide if the majority of my customers could be believed.