Wasting a scammer's time.

[thecdnhermit]

So lastnight, just after 11pm, my wife started getting texted by a scammer. It appears that they somehow found an old address of ours and put together an image of a fake Facebook Messenger conversation where my wife responded to some questions in process of applying for money. They started with this fake screenshot (which I don't think came through right away), and then said "Hello", "It's this Ms thecdnhermit", at which point my wife showed me the messages and I took over. I've simply included all the screenshots. Personal or possibly identifying info has been censored.

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I left them hanging and went to bed. This morning my wife's phone rang, and she hollered for me: it was the scammer calling! Ballsy!

Even though I'd planned to continue the game this morning, since he called, I simply called him out on his scam. He attempted to argue and say he was legit and after a couple arguments from him, I simply hung up on him. We haven't heard from him since. I think my wife blocked the number anyway, but of course, being a generated number, that's easy enough to get around.

Interestingly, he had an Indian accent, just like most of the scammers in videos from Scammer Payback. It was actually watching Scammer Payback that gave me the idea to mess with him like this. Of course I don't have the resources to track these guys down, but at least I probably wasted this guy's time for about two and a half hours lastnight.