This one is quite elaborate… Really don’t get how they can sleep at night after scamming the vulnerable and empathetic portion of our society.
This one is quite elaborate… Really don’t get how they can sleep at night after scamming the vulnerable and empathetic portion of our society.
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Christ, that is particularly scummy.
My ma would know it’s not me because she’d batter me if I called her ”mum”
Unfortunately this isn’t a new tactic, it’s been doing the rounds a while. It is fucking horrific.
But is the girl ok?
Best advice you can give them in these situations is 1) call the person they are pretending to be on the number you have for them and if that doesn’t work 2) call the number.
It’s not new
“Glad you got your phone sorted dear so you can text someone who gives a fuck” – my mother.
The big giveaway to me is asking them to text back. As if a parent or anybody for that matter, would just send a text in this situation.
My ma got this one a few years ago.
Benefit of calling your mam mam like a normal Irish person.
It’s shit and over 60s will fall for these things easily sit your parents down and make a plan for what to do when they get these texts. Have a codeword or tell them to ring your original number. A parent will panic if they see a message like this and won’t think rationally.
This would only work on Protestants
Two male colleagues of mine got this last week. Same thing, addressed to Mum
That ones been going for the last 40 years.
I got this a few weeks ago. Bastards
Lol thats a UK number
Sister got this one today and mam last week. Stupid scammers
Thanks for sharing!
Do people even use sms? Even my parents use WhatsApp for everything in their mid 60s
Just got the same one in Germany (in German) haha
This is just a returning one from the mid 00s
My sister got a similar message the other day but only saw the preview and then couldnt find the message ( I think it moved to spam) but she was in a panic then thinking something had happened to my niece who is in primary school. So she rang the school saying she think she got a text from her daughter and the school was like ya no she fine, your not the first parent to have called about this recently.
Oof, I recently changed network and they screwed up the move number between networks. It got sorted in the end but I did have a different number for a week, so I could totally have sent this type of message in that period.