This person friended me from an online game I played asking if I wanted to be paid to be a penpal. I’m familiar with a lot of phishing scams and other sorts of scams but I’ve never seen a scam like this one. What exactly is this person trying to get from me, are they hoping to infect my device with something sinister or are they trying to phish information from me without me knowing it? They seem to put a lotta emphasis on me VIEWING this photo they’re gonna send me and it makes me think that whatever they’re gonna send me must be infected with some sort of trojan. Can someone explain to me what’s going on here?
As long as you understand that you absolutely are taking the risk of fraud being assosiated with your own personal bank account.
Like don’t post in 2 days “GUYS!!! I WAS HACKED!!! THEY STOLE EVERYTHING!!!”
Nah I aint givin this fucker my bank account. I do wanna troll the shit out of em but idk how to go about it other than just wasting his time by yapping about random shit
Oh, ok.
I remember when I was 17, my mom would hand me the phone whenever telemarketers would call.
I’d waste their time as a hobby. Sometimes I’d say my mom was on vacation in Jamaca, eating lots of blue flavored snow cones. Other times I’d say she was in the shower.
Either way, I’d start a counter to see how long they’d stay on the phone with me. My record was 2 hours 26 minutes. And my mom actually ended it. She came up and asked who I was talking to. I held up the hand signal for telemarketer.
She was in one of her pissy moods, so she grabbed the phone out of my hand, and screamed into the phone “THIS IS HIS MOM! WE DON’T WANT ANY!!!” and hung up.
To this day, I still believe I could have hit the 5 hour mark if she had just let me.
My reasoning was if they’re talking to me, they AREN’T talking to someone who could be scammed.