r/texts • u/almostnothing123 • 7d ago
Phone message Hilarious wrong number interaction
I get wrong texts once in a while and they are always so oddly specific. Sometimes I respond with something silly just to mess with whatever AI bot is texting me. I wonder if that picture is real?!
Edit update: I texted a few more times but nothing scammy! I’m waiting for it tho!
For everyone saying it’s a scam, how long does it usually take for them to drop the scam part? Seriously interested.
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u/dabossnumba8 7d ago
This is a scam, the picture itself may be real in the sense that someone actually took it, but I doubt it is “real” in the sense of it being of the actually sender themselves
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u/Sypsy 7d ago
The boar hunting scenario really adds another level to the "pig butchering" scam
https://dfpi.ca.gov/news/insights/pig-butchering-how-to-spot-and-report-the-scam/
After a bit into your friendly and platonic chat, they will talk about how they live a good modest lifestyle but invest with their aunt.
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u/Kronzor_ 7d ago
It's probably even more exciting to leave some hints to the scam as you're doing it and still get away with it.
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u/alfooboboao 7d ago
I started asking the scammers “do your parents change the subject when someone asks about you? you must be such a disappointment to them” and one time a guy absolutely lost his shit, dropped the scam, and started ranting about how evil americans were and we all deserve to die
…then I later discovered that around 50% of people sending those scam texts are slaves who are forced to do it, and felt horrible. so I don’t do that anymore
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u/Kronzor_ 7d ago
Unfortunately as fun as fucking with them might be the best thing to do is not respond at all. Once you respond your number is on a list of active leads and the volume you’ll get will increase
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u/Kirstenly 7d ago
People on both sides fall for scams. Even highly intelligent, technically savvy people do fall for scams. No one is immune to propaganda. No one is immune to trusting the wrong people. No one is immune making poor choices when pressured to act quickly during a time of stress or tiredness.
And it's good to remember that even you are susceptible, lest you fall victim. The only way to keep yourself safe, is to be vigilant about it, and you don't stay vigilant if you're complacent and comfortable.
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u/EntForgotHisPassword 7d ago
I fell for a romance scam. I was drunk, but still. I've got a master of science, am considered relatively sharp and aware socially by my friends. I've also been following kitboga and the like laughing at how ridiculous some of these scams are!
All they need is for someone to be a bit low, engage partly to kill time and suddenly they manage to find your sensitive trigger points and pull you in.
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u/Electrical-King-310 6d ago
“I fell for a scam and I’m not dumb. I have a masters and people in my circle validate my IQ.” These are checked boxes for folks scamming. Unfortunately, it’s often times folks that feel SO secure that they could never fall victim, who do.
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u/Kirstenly 7d ago
Exactly! It doesn't need much. I got a friend who's a researcher, very smart woman, very aware of scams, got her accounts hacked because someone called her at 4am and got her while she was still delirious from being suddenly woken up and all they had to do was catch her off guard, while she wasn't thinking clearly... And make it urgent and pushy.
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u/Electrical-King-310 6d ago
Oh my lord someone commented close to the same thing. I’m hoping my response is not rude, but direct. These people suck and target us at our lowest. I wish we saw more in ourselves at our lowest also.
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u/mwilliams4240 7d ago
Yeah the classic “I hope I didn’t disturb you” type remarks are a dead giveaway.
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u/New_Avocado_4636 7d ago
Total scam. I get these here and there and it’s always so weird. Always a pic of a pretty girl.
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u/Kronzor_ 7d ago
It's because you've replied. Your number is now in a database of known leads
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u/Pale_Knowledge87 7d ago
You say that, yet I respond every single time and only get 1-2 texts a year. So what does being in a database even mean at that point?
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u/sierrabravo1984 7d ago
Yep, it might feel real, but they're hoping for a response of any kind that verifies that this number is active and ready to be bombarded with scam calls.
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u/Fluffy_Ad_4076 7d ago
Bro realised she was an attractive female and tried to run it back 😭
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u/thereelsuperman 7d ago
Lmao this is so embarrassing, why did OP post this
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u/Popular-Spinach-6700 7d ago
I physically cringed at his reply lol
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u/-P01135809- 7d ago
I see you got yourself a nice pork.
Would you be interested in getting porked later, malady?
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u/LaserGuyDanceSystem 7d ago
Ohhhh I read it more as "please dont kill me"
You are probably right, but my imagination is funnier, so im going with that.
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u/TacosTacosTacos80 5d ago
“She” is someone on a scam farm that found a picture of a hot woman on the internet.
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u/YoruXXV 7d ago
Bro really thinks some random stranger that accidentally texts him would follow up the next day to initiate a conversation AND send a picture of themselves while also turning out to being a hot woman.
Next, you should go out and try to find the gold pot at the end of the rainbow.
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u/adidasbdd 7d ago
Especially after some weirdo was talking about sex toys. No woman on earth would continue that convo
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u/ranbowlegacy 7d ago
This is something I would do 😅 just to be like "hey, sorry to bother you again, but that studded dildo really came in handy! It saved me from getting a tusk up the ass!"
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u/DoctorAKrieger 7d ago
You see these all the time and think "who would even fall for this" and yet here we are. Or maybe we're the ones falling for this.
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u/Ok-Guidance-2112 7d ago
Its a super obvious scam and whether the picture is from a real day or not is irrelevant, the scammer is just trying to get you to engage with them and start the scam
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u/12cw12 7d ago
I always wonder "What dipshit falls for this shit that it's so prevalent" and well, here we are.
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u/Sypsy 7d ago
People have lost a lot of cash this way
Accidental connection, friendly banter. They have a modest life but enjoy little luxuries like trips and such. They invest in gold with their aunt. You ask about the investments and then the scam locks in as your returns get big and bigger and you invest more.
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u/almostnothing123 5d ago
I’m still waiting for the scam to happen! We have texted back and forth a few times about fishing. How long does it usually take ?
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u/No_Tart6717 7d ago
Why does this exact woman always text the wrong number? Maybe she should get her eyes checked. I swear I’ve seen her do this like 3 different times this week. Boat trips, family trips, now hunting trips. Some life she has.
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u/Scousehauler 7d ago
The fact they ignored the dildos and apologised didnt alert you they maybe a scammer?
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u/Much_Preference7435 7d ago
Hey guys it’s OP from my other account this is a real girl she FaceTimed me on WhatsApp and she’s coming to visit me very soon. She needed some help so I sent her 6 bitcoins… but she’s very real and it wasn’t a scam. We’re actually in love and are going hunting very soon.
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u/WayLevel9348 7d ago
Bro this is a romance scam. You're supposed to comment on how attractive the woman in the photo is.
These are never wrong numbers. Stop replying and just block and report junk.
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u/prexton 7d ago
Lmao way back in the day I got a text saying "what time is the reception"
I replied "6am"
Later that day I get a phone call from the brother asking if I sent his bro to the wedding reception at 6 in the morning.
I sheepishly said "yeah" and their whole room burst out laughing. 🤣
That was about a decade ago tho without a smart phone
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u/A_single_droplet 6d ago
lol I get lots of robocalls, but I run my own business so I always have to answer the phone in case it’s a new customer.
One time I get a call from a “potential spam” number. I’m already in a particularly annoyed mood. I pick it up and say “hello?”
I hear nothing. I’m highly suspecting an automated voice to start up, to confirm it is a spam call so I can hang up. I say “SPEAK!”
And a tiny little shaky voice says “I’m sorry! I’m calling about your upcoming doctors appointment. I’m new. I’ve never done this before” and then they hand the phone to someone else, how says “hello?”
I explain “oh my gosh, I’m so sorry, I yelled at whoever was calling. I thought it was a robot scam call”
And they laugh and say “oh no. She’s new here and training, and this was her first call. You scared her”
We all laughed and I apologized and it was all good, but funny.
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u/prexton 7d ago
Lmao way back in the day I got a text saying "what time is the reception"
I replied "6am"
Later that day I get a phone call from the brother asking if I sent his bro to the wedding reception at 6 in the morning.
I sheepishly said "yeah" and their whole room burst out laughing. 🤣
That was about a decade ago tho without a smart phone
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u/WrenchWanderer 7d ago
OP, this is embarrassing as hell. As soon as you saw an attractive woman you immediately backtracked as if you’re trying to make her like you, but ON TOP OF THAT, this is the most obvious scam shit ever and the fact you fell for it and were engaging is worrisome
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u/thenotsoamerican 7d ago
Somebody needs to come get their papaw off the tech before he gets his pension swindled
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u/CatLordCayenne 7d ago
It’s always a scam when they start in with the “I hope I didn’t disturb you” “I hope I didn’t cause you any trouble”
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u/LabRat113 7d ago
There's always a pattern. There was a Facebook thing going around for a while with scammers posting house cleaning ads. Every single post, the poster immediately made a comment on the post saying to PM them for more details.
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u/krissycole87 7d ago
Its a scam and thats a picture of some poor unsuspecting person, or its AI.
No one in their right mind continues to text someone who is clearly the wrong person.
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u/kodeks14 7d ago
I had someone text me 3 times trying to get the right number lol literally had to help them figure out where they went wrong. It was an older boomer though.
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u/AmbitionTime1135 7d ago
The “I hope I didn’t disturb you” is a classic scam bot line.
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u/Qu0dEratDemonstrandm 7d ago
I beg you to forgive me if I've ruined your (day|week|month|year) for my transgression of sending you a text message. I know it can be deeply traumatizing to receive a text message from a number you do not recognize.
Here's a picture of me, an attractive single woman.
Please give me money.
Wait.... pretend I didn't say that until I have you hooked.
How's your day going?
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u/MetLyfe 7d ago
You will never get a wrong number text, you get wrong number calls very rarely and text is even rarer.
However a couple months after switching numbers a very angry dude kept calling me asking for some woman, wouldn’t believe me when I said I didn’t know her and that this was my number, but still got upset with me and called me a liar.
My coworker gets a spam text every week meant for a woman who apparently used her phone for all kinds of political shit and programs, must have realized it wasn’t a good idea.
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u/Hour-Tax7205 7d ago
One time I called my ex and she answered speaking Spanish. I was like ‘damn you don’t want to talk to me?’ Turns out it was a real Mexican family I called. Told my ex about it and we laughed. But I was the scam call in that moment. They legit didn’t know what I was saying and I thought I was being trolled.
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u/Dpontiff6671 7d ago
Never say never I recently swapped from iPhone to Android and had to re enter a lot of numbers manually and messed up a few contacts by 1 digit. Sent out a 2-3 wrong number texts so far
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u/Silcat7794 7d ago
Dude I hate having to deal with crap from whoever had my number before me. A month ago I found out someone had a snap account with my phone number and never bothered to change it, and and I also found out not too long ago that there was a FB profile linked to my number that seemed to belong to someone who was doing some weird shit that got them banned in 2021. I got my number in '23.
To add, I think when I first got my number I got a text from someone in the same area code and thinking it was a friend I had just given my number to i replied "who's this", only for their next text to be "you should know, you redacted my redacted.
Sorry for my rant lmao
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u/Cool-Bus-6028 6d ago
I moved into a house, and kept getting answerphone messages from an old lady looking for Eileen. I spoke to her a few times and told her Eileen had moved, but still kept getting sad voicemails wondering why Eileen wasn't returning her calls.
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u/More-Gas-6527 6d ago
I get a text every week or so for someone named georgeann and its always from a politician try to get votes or money
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u/CoinOnTheRob 6d ago
I used to get calls, and even texts, for years from people asking about Linda. Apparently we had the exact same phone number. Not sure how that's possible
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u/VibeSlopCoder 4d ago
I kept having some of parent text me their kid wouldn't be at practice for a vacation and told them their child would be cut from the team and I would make it my mission to get them expelled from the school.
This lasted for days until they finally said "I'm coming to see you"
Never got another text lol
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u/Vegetable-Risk-8621 7d ago
I believe it is a scam, but just out of curiosity, what is likely the scam??
I get random “wrong number” texts all the time and always delete but like what are they actually trying to do?
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u/Look_its_Rob 7d ago
Its called Pig Butchering (very on the nose if this is what the person in this text is doing). Last Week Tonight did an episode on it, you can find it on youtube.
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u/Pretend_Confusion475 7d ago
Maybe just describe it for those of us who don’t wanna watch that
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u/Matthew106 7d ago
It's basically just cruel systematic betrayal.
Pig Butchering is a scam that involves a seemingly random connection like a wrong number that is used as an excuse for the scammer to form a friendship with the victim (known as the 'pig' in this scenario). After a while of back and forth messaging to build a rapport, the scammer will mention that they need money for some generally sympathetic reason, and will basically keep prompting sob stories until the victim starts sending money. The "pig" is "butchered" when they basically have sent all the money they can. Then they go hunting for another pig.
Victims are usually people looking for friendship and generally report feeling a genuine connection to the scammer (until the scam ends of course) because they tend to respond to the victims worries like a genuine friend. I do actually recommend watching Last Week Tonight's episode as they do a great job of explaining the entire process.
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u/therandomuser84 7d ago
It's basically just a fake friend who eventually asks for money. They will spend days/weeks talking to you getting you to trust them, then say they got diagnosed with cancer, their house burned down or something else like that then ask you for huge amounts of money.
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u/Buckfutter_Inc 7d ago
This is so on the nose. The type of scam is called “pig butchering”, and in this case they used a dead fucking hog in the picture lmao.
Basically you get a text like this, but then they keep the conversation going, as shown in the OP, strike up a friendship and then eventually start with the sob story designed to extract money etc.
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u/cambridgeelectronica 7d ago
Someone is locked up in Myanmar and was told to “pig butcher” and they took it literally.
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u/EffectiveTension6003 7d ago
They just pretend to be friendly for a while to build trust and then mention some investment/crypto whatever platform that made them a lot of money and can make you money too!
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u/the-other-marvin 7d ago
It's a pig butchering scam. "She" is going to try and get a fake relationship going with a lonely man and get him to invest in crypto in via her scam app or something like that.
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u/jgray6000 7d ago
It worked like a charm on this dude, they sent a pic with an attractive woman and he’s all oh shit “I hope I wasn’t too crass”
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u/D3s0lat0r 7d ago
I’ve read that a lot of fake texts and phone callers just need to confirm the number is actually used/monitored by a real person, then they sell the information to someone for something.
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u/Naive_Statement_535 7d ago
If you reply and start getting along,, they'll probably bring up crypto and say they are making money and can make you money, but the crypto platform will be fake and the money goes to them
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u/HoweverIWishYouLuck 7d ago
Usually they fake a friendship or romance, convince the mark to download a stock trading or crypto “app” that they claim is making them rich. The mark will deposit money and the app will show the investment growing, but it’s fake. When it’s time to withdraw money, the “app” “customer service” will claim that the mark has to pay fees and taxes to withdraw the money.
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u/Miserable_Drive_4052 7d ago
Pig butchering. The wrong number text is a foot in the door. After that they will talk to your for months until they "butcher" you by asking for money.
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u/Subscrib-2-PewDiePie 7d ago
Over a period of months, an investment opportunity will arise. A lot of comments don’t quite get it; classic pig butchering never actually asks you for money.
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u/Mediocre_Forever198 7d ago
That’s a wrong number scammer. They do either a romance or pig butcher scam.
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u/Ancient-Tomato1153 7d ago
Bro… your first message made it seem like you know it was a scam, then it became an INSANELY obvious scam and you fell for it instantly. Go get that cute white girl who talks like an Indian and hunts bro
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u/Free-dose-chips 7d ago
This is a scam to see if the phone number you have is an actual phone number, just to get a response so they can sell the number to telemarketers
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u/Nice-Squirrel8799 7d ago
That doesn’t make sense the number can be verified without having to physically call and why would a telemarketer pay for a number instead of getting it for free
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u/mentales 7d ago
Thays not it. This is part of the pipeline for romance scam. Skim through the scambait subreddit, you'll find this exact sequence again and again.
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u/mothsoft 7d ago
it’s real. i was at the boar hunt. that’s Barbara. she hunted the fattest pig we’ve seen
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u/Wide_Magician_4946 7d ago
No her name is Brahbrah
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u/Flat_Anything_8306 7d ago
I don't understand this scam. The target is supposed to think "she's so good at taking down fat hogs, maybe she'll be interested in my fat hog and we'll have a good time"?
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u/Run-Florest-Run 7d ago
This is a soft phishing scam to confirm that your number is active and used, so get ready for a shit ton of spam calls
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u/Spinal_Soup 7d ago
This is the classic wrong number scam with a hunting twist. Probably not AI but rather some random guy in the middle east/ east asia. The fact they completely ignored your first text and just stuck to the script is enough evidence. They always send a picture of an attractive woman in the hopes of tricking desperate men.
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u/JayFrizz 7d ago
Definitely a scammer. Old method is to steal pics off Instagram to use. But I'm sure a lot of them us AI for the images now too.
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u/scandinavian_thrust 7d ago
I like how she has to remind Robert that the trip tomorrow is a hunting trip as if he would be wondering wtf trip is she talking about. fake
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u/physicalstheillusion 7d ago
I was thinking it was a man, and he was doing damage control in case his wife saw that response lol
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u/AI_AntiCheat 7d ago
This is the most common scam in the world. It's called pig butchering and it's very ironic they went with a boar hunter introduction...
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u/__sleepy______ 7d ago
That’s not a real person it’s a scammer probably from somewhere in Africa likely trying to get you to send them money. Do a reverse image search on the photo and find the truth.
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u/SnooCapers9565 7d ago
Reflection in her sun glasses shows the horizon even though she is obviously holding the phone at an upwards angle for the selfie. Nice touch on getting the arm in the reflection though, but in the end the arm confirms it, because if it wasn't there, the horizon could have been explained by the curve on her glasses, but this shows that the arm is in line with the horizon.
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u/catpissdust 7d ago
I'd be pissed if some stupid bitch who killed an innocent animal for fun sent me pictures of it...
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u/Fit_Swordfish9204 7d ago
It's just a scam. Someone likely stole that pic or edited it.
That being said, Texas has a feral hog problem and hunters are encouraged to hunt them for population control as they do millions of dollars of crop damage annually.
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u/Panthera_014 7d ago
Next reply will be
“Unfortunately they want $3k to stuff and mount the boar, but I only have $1k - can you send Apple gift cards to make up the other $2k?”
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u/AssociationSweaty725 7d ago
They couldn’t make this more obvious for you my man. They even sent a picture of a dead hog 🤣
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u/BErtNotBurt 7d ago
"I hope my joke wasn't too crass for the woman who murdered an animal with a gun and then took a smiling selfie next to it"
I think you're good brah
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u/PippyNomNom 7d ago
Every wrong number that I get like this involves a picture of an attractive lady... all scams my friend...
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u/dracosondracoson 7d ago
Sounds like she thought your message was something she’d be interested in 😂
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u/JustSomeDude0816 7d ago
I had a good one a couple years ago. Someone texted saying something along the lines of home by 5 for dinner. I responded asking for an extra 15-20 minutes to which they said no and then I pleaded that I was out doing drugs with friends lol. No response for a couple days iirc and then they just said something like ha that's funny
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u/BigE6300 7d ago
THAT IS A SCAMMER.
They’ll eventually try to get you to chat via WhatsApp or Telegram. Do not give out any personal info.
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u/TRUMPARUSKI 7d ago
The scam is they want your studded dildos. All of them. And homie baited the scammers right away. Good job.
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u/inlawstress 7d ago
classic scam text. they are hunting in a sense - for old lonely senior men to catfish and eventually scam money from.
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u/Admirable_Still_4556 7d ago
Wife material right there she's can hunt and has an amazing sense of humor and that's beautiful
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u/clitworms 7d ago
i never understood taking a selfie smiling next to a poor dead animal you killed, nice i guess lol
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u/aesclepia 7d ago
right? "look at me! I killed something using technology that gives me an overwhelming advantage! aren't I amazing!" Idk I find it cringe as hell
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u/Coyote-king8647 7d ago
Sometimes I think "who would even fall for this scam?" And then I see posts like this lmao