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Re:What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts? by thaumasiotes on Friday July 01, 2022 @07:48PM (#31954514)
A bit over a year ago, I received over SMS a photo of a young woman using her mouth to lift up her shirt and reveal her bra. Her face above the very bottom of her nose is not visible.

This was followed by the text "hi, is this Grèg frm Sañta Barbara?.? It is Jennifer."

Clearly some sort of scam is afoot, but I don't know what it is. And virtually no effort has been made to be at all convincing, given the diacritics.

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Re:What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts? by jhugo on Saturday July 02, 2022 @02:53AM (#31956833)
Being less convincing saves the scammers time, because you won't reply unless you're easily fooled.
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Re:What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts? by aaaaaaaaata on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:51AM (#31958259)
Multiple people I know rec'd this.
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