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Originally Posted by Locke
Good luck! Honestly.
I had this happen to my mother just a couple weeks ago.
She got a text 'from me' saying that I was broke and my phone doesnt work so I'm using someone else's phone, please send money, thanks!
Thankfully she was smart enough to at least check! She actually believed it, instead of even just trying to call my cell...for whatever reason, she called my office where she got my receptionist.
"Hey Locke, your mom says you're broke...you need money? You sent her a link from someone else's phone?"
- "DO NOT CLICK THAT"
Some of these scams are wild, and we all think we're too smart to buy them, but some can be pretty convincing. The authorities treat them like they're harmless but they can be very damaging.
For instance, in my line of work I deal with CRA all the time, one of their constant bitches is:
"Nobody believes its actually us!"
Well...whose fault is that? You should have been ruthless in putting down all of those CRA scams, but you let them go on for years so now nobody believes its actually you when you call them.
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I received one of those texts this week - didn't hurt that it got ID'd as potential spam by my phone. The spammer was posing as my child. For fun, I replied asking them for their birthdate. Go figure, they never replied. A little disappointed as I was hoping to play their game a little longer.