Why are text scammers so lazy?
Just had a text scam from the “USPS” that had those 3 Z’s emoji around the “USPS”, and handshake emojis around another sentence.
It was also an RCS chat which tells me it is a real person, not an automated text.
I have also gotten ones asking me what I am bringing to the BBQ. And yes, those are friendship/romance scammers.
I’m sorry for what I am about to say: but nobody with a brain who understands technology would fall for that. The USPS using emojis? Really? Maybe the friendship ones are harder to get. I assumed wrong number at first.
You’d think they want people to fall for their scams
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If they were competent then they wouldn’t need to scam. They would be able to get a normal job. I get scam texts weekly. Once a year one successfully tricks me. I paid a scammer $99 to reactivate my Microsoft Word subscription last year.
I also pay ~$15 a month for the original Microsoft Word and I don’t have a computer. Same is true for Amazon Prime. They charge me ~$9 a month for an account that I don’t have acccess to.
“nobody with a brain who understands technology would fall for that”
– It selects for undiscerning people, and weeds out people who are smart enough not only to see through their scams, but to go to the FBI and report it, etc.
In that way, it’s also a lot like a bunch of advertising – aimed at people who might be so easy to influence into buying something.
It’s also a bit like Fox News and GOP messaging – the talk to the audience of fools they want, since informed people will tend to reject what they say anyway.
Because it only takes on idiot. Sending on mass is quite simple. Same with emails.
You are not the target. There are plenty of people who fall for it. Like the one who sent 850 grand to a scammer pretending to be Brad Pitt.
People are gullible, stupid, vulnerable, naive, lonely, all kinds of things.
My grandma when she was still with us once told me she could not get Microsoft to quit calling her. I was like NOOOOO!!!! It’s not Microsoft!!!! Then I tried to help her log into her own computer then email and I was like LOL, that scammer never had a chance of getting ANYTHING…and I proceeded to pull my hair out handfuls at a time helping her login to Facebook and her bank to check that everything was really ok. It was, but that took fucking DAYS. At least I could take pleasure in how frustrated that scammer must have been.
Because it works. There are people stupid enough to fall for it.
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