The text messaging began like other scammy ones that preceded it, and so I played along. During that conversation I googled salons in SF and decided a Sutter Street address sounded right. Unfortunately, the next day, I accidentally sent a text intended for someone else (who’s doing the recording for the audiobook version of myContinue reading “Scam Whoops!”
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An Uninspiring Scammer
This is another in my series of improvs with scammers. They send me a message, then claim it’s a wrong number and try to elicit conversation. I thwarted this one immediately by being an attractive Asian woman fashion designer and cryptocurrency dabbler. Because that’s what so many of them claim to be. I guess “she”Continue reading “An Uninspiring Scammer”
And Now, A Third!
Just as I was telling a friend about my texting improv with a scammer, my phone pinged with a third. While the last one was not a good improviser (see previous blog posts for #1 and #2), this one had a little more going for him/her. I decided to get a little more baroque inContinue reading “And Now, A Third!”
Damn Your Spam!
So the scammers started a new thing: they send a text to you asking you a question, but it’s not your name. Oh, no, wrong number! Can we still be friends on WhatsApp? I’m not sure of the endgame, and instead of playing with them, I started sending this message: “How many times I haveContinue reading “Damn Your Spam!”
The Best Relationship Advice Ever
If you want really good relationship advice, don’t look to self-help books or see a therapist. Answer one of those “wrong number” texts and play along. Or maybe you haven’t gotten any of those texts. I get them frequently, and once had three in one hour. The unnamed sender pings you with something like, “Ariana,Continue reading “The Best Relationship Advice Ever”
