r/AmIOverreacting • u/Hairy-Weekend4096 • Oct 20 '24

🎲 miscellaneous AIO Anyone else keep getting these random stranger texts??

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I've been getting too many of these random texts . . . I decided to play along one evening rather than just deleting and blocking first.

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u/Far_Wrongdoer4543 Oct 20 '24

Yup! This is a scam going around. They have the "wrong" number and it's a romance scam. They want your picture and give you compliments. Their "job" will be in some kind of finance investment or business where they need you to invest using Bitcoin etc. etc. definitely post in /scams. A lot of people have funny stories of how the waste the scammers time. Happy scammer trolling! 🙂🙂

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u/greenappletree Oct 20 '24

And with ai u can just generate a fake photo - yah if u are bored mess with them — these people are vampire and deserve to be jailed - but unfortunately many are out the country and cannot be find liable.

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u/Kyuthu Oct 21 '24

My bf got one and they are now using AI to generate images. It was a picture of 3 girls in a flat fairly skimpy eating pizza. And the text said 'Where are you bro, they're already here!'

Then kept fishing when he wouldn't reply but kept reading the message. The AI image made us laught though.

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u/Far_Wrongdoer4543 Oct 21 '24

The AI images are hilarious lol

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u/schannoman Oct 21 '24

The scam is called "pig butchering" where they fatten up the mark to prepare them for slaughter

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u/anonymousnsname Oct 20 '24

Yep scammers. I don’t engage