Took me a few texts before I realised what was going on. Got me at first. Still unsure what the end goal is. Guessing they try gather data.
Well, that was an adventure.
Jizz lol
Never underestimate the tenacity of scammers. There are some very talented ones that can get plenty of information out of those who think they are leading them up the proverbial.
Never engage with scammers.
The issue is, when you engage with them. Even if you’re attempting to have fun with them, it means you are more likely to be contacted by other scammers in the future.
Now you’ve got yourself on a list of “numbers scammers know for sure are manned at the other end”. Best thing to do with numbers you don’t recognise is just totally ignore them.
Nope, because the second you reply, you’re a known active number who responds.
Brace yourself for the incoming storm.
I bloody love it. I had a great one pretending to be Benny from ABBA wanting me to transfer money to his publisher’s Italian bank account so he could release his autobiography. I kept him going for almost three weeks. He liked to eat chicken wings.
Washed my honda jizz 🤣🤣🤣🤣👌👍
TLDR: they meet up later to shoot pingpong balls out of their foreskin
Never mind that, I am about to Google Minesh Singh! Is he on YouTube?
You should join r/scambait
I too spent my Saturday washing my Honda with jizz.
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I tend to go full Alan Partridge.
“What time do you knock off? Fancy a pint?”
You’re aware they’re mostly Chinese, right? Not Indian
Gurpreet, I’ll come for the curry and the 3 ball show with you if Linneth isn’t interested.
I loved winding them up.
I had one on for 15 minutes years ago telling me something wrong with my PC, I told him this was not true as me and my brother in law were doctors in IT
I also enjoy telling them this number is ex-directory, so stop phoning up and selling your nonsense
If they already have your number why do they want whatsapp?
That made me chuckle, especially the bit where you said “my friend Linneth lives there”. And doubling down on Honda Jizz lol.
I’m sure plenty of smartarses will enjoy telling you you’re now on a list for more scams because you answered. It’s one of many Reddit user’s auto responses.
Where abouts is the Taj Fataal get it n Enfield? Sounds great! 😆
The number of scam texts I get went from 2/3 a month to 0 after I spent 3 months replying “hahahahahahahahahahahahaha” or something similar to their first message
Slough 💀
I love to play along with their ruse and pretend to be the person they think I am.
Yeah I do this a lot too haha and was that an attempt to outsource your SEO at the end? Genius!
Loved the part about the dog & the peanut butter 🤣
This was a wild ride!
Not really, I just block the number and get on with my day
“That time we had with your toes and that jalfrezi” 😂
Posted another on my profile, since some of you enjoyed this one.
419 eater dot com used to be funny back in the day. No idea if it’s still a thing
oh yeah, it’s good childish fun. Things like pretend there’s a murderer in my house til they go quiet, give them really stupid info like saying i live in London, Scotland, keep changing my story and even my name every message and giggle at how astonishingly long it takes them to notice it’s all nonsense. You were more subtle than me lol. If i don’t have time just ask them to skip to the bit where they ask for my bank details, or skip to my standard ending – send them an annoying gif of a screaming possum or whatever and block them. I haven’t noticed the frequency of scam attempts going up over the years, it’s roughly 3 a year i guess.
I shit you not. I think I spoke to the same person on WhatsApp in July 2023. They were called ‘Linnea’. From Singapore, business analyst – visiting London 😂.
I’ve got one on the go now, but it’s taking too long to get to the ‘give me your money’ stage and I’m getting bored.
Because of that thing with the dog and peanut butter 😂😂. You are a very bad man. 10/10 👌
Yes. Currently have one convinced they’re talking to disgraced media mogul Max Clifford. Even though he’s dead.
Brilliant. I love stringing scammers along but never for as long as that. Mine usually go along the lines of “Oh Hi, [insert whatever name here] I was just wondering if you got the £10,000 you asked to borrow? Can you give me your bank account details so I can make sure I transferred it to the right account?”
The conversation usually stops fairly quickly around this point.
I had a call from one of the tech support scammers recently, they directed me to a fake ‘BT Support’ website hosted on some free website hosting platform. I kept them on the phone long enough to email the platform’s abuse team and get their fake website shut down, they were fucking livid.
Although my favourite quote from an India scammer, after over an hour of ‘going to find my wallet’ etc, when I finally got bored and told him ‘I’m not going to give you any money, because I’m not a fucking idiot’ he replied with “I can assure you **Sir**, you ARE a fucking idiot”
I’ve taken to responding to the car accident scammer calls by saying things like…
Which accident? I’ve had a few this year, I am a terrible driver.
They’re like, the most recent one madam.
So I say, which car? I’m quite wealthy and have several cars, but am a terrible driver in all of them. Which are you referring to?
Whichever car you where in for the most recent one madam…
We go round in this circle for a while, I can hear their frustration through their breath. I try not to laugh as we go round and round…
Eventually they either hang up on me or I ask them “does this scam really work on people?” Then they always hang up at that point.
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Took me a few texts before I realised what was going on. Got me at first. Still unsure what the end goal is. Guessing they try gather data.
Well, that was an adventure.
Jizz lol
Never underestimate the tenacity of scammers. There are some very talented ones that can get plenty of information out of those who think they are leading them up the proverbial.
Never engage with scammers.
The issue is, when you engage with them. Even if you’re attempting to have fun with them, it means you are more likely to be contacted by other scammers in the future.
Now you’ve got yourself on a list of “numbers scammers know for sure are manned at the other end”. Best thing to do with numbers you don’t recognise is just totally ignore them.
Nope, because the second you reply, you’re a known active number who responds.
Brace yourself for the incoming storm.
I bloody love it. I had a great one pretending to be Benny from ABBA wanting me to transfer money to his publisher’s Italian bank account so he could release his autobiography. I kept him going for almost three weeks. He liked to eat chicken wings.
Washed my honda jizz 🤣🤣🤣🤣👌👍
TLDR: they meet up later to shoot pingpong balls out of their foreskin
Never mind that, I am about to Google Minesh Singh! Is he on YouTube?
You should join r/scambait
I too spent my Saturday washing my Honda with jizz.
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I tend to go full Alan Partridge.
“What time do you knock off? Fancy a pint?”
You’re aware they’re mostly Chinese, right? Not Indian
Gurpreet, I’ll come for the curry and the 3 ball show with you if Linneth isn’t interested.
I loved winding them up.
I had one on for 15 minutes years ago telling me something wrong with my PC, I told him this was not true as me and my brother in law were doctors in IT
I also enjoy telling them this number is ex-directory, so stop phoning up and selling your nonsense
If they already have your number why do they want whatsapp?
That made me chuckle, especially the bit where you said “my friend Linneth lives there”. And doubling down on Honda Jizz lol.
I’m sure plenty of smartarses will enjoy telling you you’re now on a list for more scams because you answered. It’s one of many Reddit user’s auto responses.
Where abouts is the Taj Fataal get it n Enfield? Sounds great! 😆
The number of scam texts I get went from 2/3 a month to 0 after I spent 3 months replying “hahahahahahahahahahahahaha” or something similar to their first message
Slough 💀
I love to play along with their ruse and pretend to be the person they think I am.
Yeah I do this a lot too haha and was that an attempt to outsource your SEO at the end? Genius!
Loved the part about the dog & the peanut butter 🤣
This was a wild ride!
Not really, I just block the number and get on with my day
“That time we had with your toes and that jalfrezi” 😂
Posted another on my profile, since some of you enjoyed this one.
419 eater dot com used to be funny back in the day. No idea if it’s still a thing
oh yeah, it’s good childish fun. Things like pretend there’s a murderer in my house til they go quiet, give them really stupid info like saying i live in London, Scotland, keep changing my story and even my name every message and giggle at how astonishingly long it takes them to notice it’s all nonsense. You were more subtle than me lol. If i don’t have time just ask them to skip to the bit where they ask for my bank details, or skip to my standard ending – send them an annoying gif of a screaming possum or whatever and block them. I haven’t noticed the frequency of scam attempts going up over the years, it’s roughly 3 a year i guess.
I shit you not. I think I spoke to the same person on WhatsApp in July 2023. They were called ‘Linnea’. From Singapore, business analyst – visiting London 😂.
I’ve got one on the go now, but it’s taking too long to get to the ‘give me your money’ stage and I’m getting bored.
Because of that thing with the dog and peanut butter 😂😂. You are a very bad man. 10/10 👌
Yes. Currently have one convinced they’re talking to disgraced media mogul Max Clifford. Even though he’s dead.
Brilliant. I love stringing scammers along but never for as long as that. Mine usually go along the lines of “Oh Hi, [insert whatever name here] I was just wondering if you got the £10,000 you asked to borrow? Can you give me your bank account details so I can make sure I transferred it to the right account?”
The conversation usually stops fairly quickly around this point.
I had a call from one of the tech support scammers recently, they directed me to a fake ‘BT Support’ website hosted on some free website hosting platform. I kept them on the phone long enough to email the platform’s abuse team and get their fake website shut down, they were fucking livid.
Although my favourite quote from an India scammer, after over an hour of ‘going to find my wallet’ etc, when I finally got bored and told him ‘I’m not going to give you any money, because I’m not a fucking idiot’ he replied with “I can assure you **Sir**, you ARE a fucking idiot”
I’ve taken to responding to the car accident scammer calls by saying things like…
Which accident? I’ve had a few this year, I am a terrible driver.
They’re like, the most recent one madam.
So I say, which car? I’m quite wealthy and have several cars, but am a terrible driver in all of them. Which are you referring to?
Whichever car you where in for the most recent one madam…
We go round in this circle for a while, I can hear their frustration through their breath. I try not to laugh as we go round and round…
Eventually they either hang up on me or I ask them “does this scam really work on people?” Then they always hang up at that point.