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A comment on Ask HN: Recent uptick in spam emails and text messages?.

Re:Ask HN: Recent uptick in spam emails and text messages? by permo-w on Sunday October 23, 2022 @10:14PM (#33312290)
I’ve gotten a text saying:

“Hi mum I'm texting you off a friends phone I've smashed mine and their phones about to die, can you WhatsApp my new number 07—————- please x”

3 days in a row from 3 different numbers. god knows what scam lies on the other end of that number

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Re:Ask HN: Recent uptick in spam emails and text messages? by Trouble_007 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @10:22PM (#33312349)
>scam:'Hi mum I'm texting you off a friends phone I've smashed mine and their phones about to die'< : <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=scam:'Hi mum I'm texting...>
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