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[–] 156 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Interesting way to deal with scammer, but then sometime they spoof their number so the victim got double victimised.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    There was a period where I kept getting phone calls from people angrily asking me to stop calling them. I think a scammer was spoofing my number :/

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I got a few of those. One memorable one in particular was from a guy that was raging hard.

    "If you don't stop fucking calling me, I'm going to come to your house and kill your whole family."

    Okay, chill dude... I'm not doing it. Clearly someone is faking my number. Just block me and move on.

    "NO! I'M SICK OF MY PHONE RINGING ALL DAY LONG! YOU NEED TO STOP OR WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IS YOUR FAULT!!!"

    Okay... So I'm gonna go ahead and call the police now... Have a better day, man.

    It was like the start of a damn horror story.

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  • [–] 105 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    how would scammer know its them?

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  • [–] 90 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    How did the scammer in the picture know that it was this specific person who did it, out of the thousands they daily spam with their message?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    The image in the post is the actual scam, you can see the fake hyperlink as well.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Yes, but even assuming the origin number was real (it almost certainly isn't), they spammed countless others. If they got counter spammed, they'd have no inking which victim caused it to happen. Unless the person told them, which according to the picture didn't happen. Or they told the Craigslist people his own real number to let the spammer know who sent them, which seems like an even worse idea.

    It is a fake story.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Well yes, that's my point. It was not an image of the reply.

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  • [–] 78 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They don't use their own number

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  • [–] 60 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    This won't work they just spoof other peoples numbers so you're fucking over other people.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Listen to the advice above ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️and don't do it, scammers spoof the ANI to look like a lagitamate number from your area because people are more likely to click, so you will be sending to a real person not the scammers (if the number is in use). If enough people complain about you, your carrier might kill your service or other carriers mighty block you. Also since your making fake listings you could end up with the cops involved.

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  • [+] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    "Officer, they made a listing to sell tickets to Taylor Swift's wedding, but when I asked to buy them, they didn't have the tickets!"

    "And how much did you pay them?"

    "Nothing. They didn't have the tickets!"

    "Okay, then."

    Seriously, though, the only way this becomes a crime is if the phone number actually gets through to the scammer and they take payment for merchandise they don't deliver. Then the person who posted the ad could be charged with participating in the scam.

    More likely is that the scammers spoofed the number and some random innocent person is getting messages they don't understand.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Yeah, most likely not, I was thinking there has been some task forces on scelpers, but fake listing would not be that and only be an annoyance that would force some poor soul to get a new number. Still shitty thing to do.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    I prefer to report the website to their registrar and their hosting provider. I’m in the US so reporting to the FTC is fun, and the UK’s version of the same agency (can’t remember its name) is excellent as they’ll get the website taken offline quickly.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    wouldn't know it was them specifically

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago

    Rofl "what have you done?"

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Just give them a bunch of new potential victims?

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