• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 hours ago

    I’ve gotten a few of these, but I just moved so it only included Google maps images of my old apartment, and I guess the data scrape didn’t get my phone number, so it included language like “I bet you wouldn’t like it if I called you at 0000000000, would you?”

    I’m savvy enough to laugh and delete, but I’m sure this would be very effective against some older Americans.

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      8 hours ago

      Yeah, I definitely knew it was fake when they called it a “beautiful neighborhood”. My friend did you even look at the picture you sent?

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      2 hours ago

      I got example 1 verbatim about a month ago complete with Google street view picture of my house. Jokes on them, all of my porn viewing is on an ancient tablet that does not have a front facing camera.

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        1 hour ago

        That’s the way to win. Never fill in your actual address. Just keep them trying and make up new fake addresses as soon as you can.

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      4 hours ago

      I’ve got a variant of this one about 15 times (minus the picture of my house). I sometimes read it out to my partner for the luls. I never keep a web cam attached to my computer, so I find it even more hilarious with the details they go into about my jerking activities and the questionable porn I watch (everything I enjoy is insanely tame lol)

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      6 hours ago

      thanks man, but how did you get a picture of my room ?!?

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      5 hours ago

      I’m torn between asking them to put up or shut up, and maybe just not confirming they got an address that still works.

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    8 hours ago

    I keep kind of hoping I get this one. I’m ace, so I definitely haven’t been watching porn of any kind, and my house has changed dramatically since the last time google came by, so it would just be entertaining. But then I see people on nextdoor all freaked out that “someone has pictures of their house,” and it makes me wish for a large, extremely targeted sinkhole to open up under all these scammers.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      5 hours ago

      My sister got the one where the scam says her son got into a car accident and - mumbling through ‘a broken jaw’ so thats why the voice is off - Officer Peterson needs to arrange bail, but off the books.

      It was surprisingly effective, and my sister had a freakin’ heart attack as any parent would, and THOSE people can rot in a hell made of mealworms, ticks and black flies.

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        Pointless – you need to beep through 4 doors to get to my unit. Hell, the elevator won’t even take you to the right floor unless you can get a fob from one of my neighbours so that button will work. Stairs are locked to get ONTO a floor, so they’re only good as exit stairs without another key that only firemen get, and you can’t get in by rappelling onto my patio either, Ethan Hunt.

        • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
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          Nobody wants to get into your apartment. This thread is about a digital scam. Have you been paying attention at all?