So with the influx of calls from scam numbers I decided to save one to interact with WhatsApp. Above the texts back and forth. Petty? Yes but fuck them. Interestingly someone then tried to create a fake Facebook account of me after this interaction which wasn’t nice so be warned

by MajorGreenhorn

40 comments

  1. Why would you even respond? doesn’t it just show your number is a real persons

  5. Did that as well to a scammer though voice call. Said my money is blocked and it costs whatever to unlock and pretended I take the bait. He said he needs 2000 euro I said ok I’ll send you 5000 just in case and he started laughing and hung up
    He was a nice scammer I miss him sometimes..

  6. I got a call every week from the UK. Most of the scammers message me on Telegram.

  8. Great, you’ve pissed off someone who has your number, personal details and likely a large team and significant resources to target your number and identity. Probably not a smart move.

  10. You sure showed them lad I’d say you’re an absolute riot at parties.

  11. Mostly one sided conversation. They caught on pretty quickly. 
    Well done I guess 👍

  12. A lot of people involved in these scams are quite literally held as slaves in Cambodia. Not sure about your particular scammer, but you’re better off not engaging. Many are lured with the promise of a decent job and held captive and beaten, some killed. There are pretty frequent stories in SE Asian countries of jailbreaks, there was one recently of a group of 20 who manged to escape barefoot

  13. I recently told a scammer to get a real job and my phone started being INUNDATED with spam calls. I’m talking several in an hour. They must have passed my number on, I ended up having to change my number!

  15. My mum gets these and tries to build em up instead.

    Last phone call (‘Hello, this your bank, there is fraud, give me your details to fix this etc’), mum just went with roughly this;

    “Hey, sorry but I’m not doing that. You have an excellent grasp of English, and to be working wherever you are in the world you must have some decent technical skills. Why work where you are now scamming people, surely there must be better jobs for you to put your skills to use”

    I think it might have broke the poor bloke because Mum had a reply in a rather sombre tone.

    “There is nothing else around here”

    So Mum wished him better and that was it.

    Sure, fuck ’em and all that, but a lot of them don’t wanna be there either, why give em a reason to be more of a nusiance and feel good about it like the profile faking.

  16. You come across not much better than the scammer, to be honest.

  18. Your gonna get even more messages and calls from them now mate since you just showed them your number is real

  19. I’ve sent them the meatspin gif before too. Seems to get their attention 🤣 (don’t google it)

  20. Never said this before but I’m on team scammer for this one

  21. I would make a complaint to pixel crayons. They shouldn’t be speaking to people like this during the interview process.

  22. The transition from image 3 to image 4 was really something

  24. There’s a page called “is this scam still available”  and it’s people out manoeuvring scaammers.   They do iit with class though and it’s funny.  I’m afraid this comes off as crass and unfunny.  Get some  finesse! 

  25. OP, I’ll be honest you look worse here. That was utterly disgusting.

    They had stopped replying, and you then sent that absolute filth. Not really funny or clever. Bit fucked up if I’m honest.

  26. Ah lads. Do people actually think that these “scams” have someone sitting with a phone in their hand texting you 😂

  27. Just to add to this, many of the people working in these locations are kidnapped and smuggled into Myanmar from China, Laos, Thailand. The Philippines does a good amount of it also.

    Who you’re talking to is probably a victim of people trafficking and slavery.

  29. As annoying as they are be very wary about doing that – the scammers are frequently ppl not doing this stuff voluntarily – some very abusive indentured labour type situations. You could be hurling abuse at another victim.

    Also when it’s from a regular voice number, you could be calling anyone back. It won’t be the scammers real phone number. You’ll just be hurling abuse at some random entirely unrelated person in the U.K. or France or whatever whose phone number has been spoofed, and who could quite legitimately report you as an abusive caller.

    Just hang up and ignore them or turn on call screening if your phone supports it.

  30. A Sri Lankan friend taught me to challenge them on the sovereignty of Kashmir.

    That can provoke a lively response or two.

  31. Yeah that was just weird& petty, you clearly are the one that got worked up over this, they probably didn’t care and move on to the next person..

  35. I despair for today’s Irish youth speaking in Americanisms. It’s an arse, not an ass, you absolute arse nugget.

  37. It is a bot so you’re only wasting your own time and you’ve just confirmed it’s a working number so they’ll now never stop, congrats 

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