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This turned out ok, but this kind of text looks a lot like the “pig butchering scam” that’s getting coverage recently
Pig-Butchering starts with a seemingly innocent text message, and once the scammers catch a victim, they convince them to start investing in crypto. They have the victim set up an account on a fake crypto exchange, and over the course of months, they steal more and more of the victim’s money.
they convince them to start investing in crypto.
The first time someone mentions crypto to me and they seriously consider it an investment I automatically judge them as foolhardy with their money. This doubles if they try to convince me to put money in crypto. My internal thoughtis “that’s nice honey. After you finish your milk and cookie, you can go play with your friends.”
I have WeChat, the Chinese messaging app and I don’t really speak Chinese. It’s very basic but I have friends on there. I’ll get a message from a girl every now and again “mistakenly” asking if I’m a tour guide or a friend of a friend.
My Chinese sucks so I usually message back and forth until they ask for money. I think some lady kept it going for three months before she told me her uncle was earning lots of money. I ignored that and she was like: “I don’t know if your Chinese is enough, but did you hear what I said about money?”
I should just flat out ignore them instead.
A close friend of mine was a victim of one of those last year. It broke her heart, because she met the scammer on a dating site and she thought they were a long distance couple. She took his advice to invest in crypto because she saw it as a form of bonding between the two of them, and a show of trust. She never told me how much money she lost but I imagine it was significant.
Very similar situation with my wife’s coworker. The coworker met some dude on a dating site and they connected pretty quickly. She even traveled to meet up with him in another city a few hours away by plane. Surprisingly he never showed up and claimed some lame excuse. In the end she “invested” 200k with him in crypto and POOF he was gone like Keyser Soze. So sad.
4% battery
Cricket Wireless
Too far
Nothing wrong with prepaid. Postpaid seems to costs a lot more for the same service. Perfect example. I was traveling from the USA to Germany on business. I had AT&T prepaid. My coworker had AT&T postpaid. Not only was he paying $80/month for close to the same service I was paying $40, when we both went to enable roaming in Europe the costs were this:
- AT&T post-paid $10/day
- AT&T pre-paid $25/week (= $3.57/day)
I’ll buy my phone outright and keep my prepaid, thanks!
On post-paid there’s also the added bonus of leaking your SSN when the provider gets breached. No such trouble with pre-paid.
I have a super old grandfathered T-Mobile prepaid plan from like… 2014? I think? Anyway I pay 30 bucks a month for unlimited talk/text, 5 gigs of high speed and infinite low speed data if that ever gets used up. AT&T tried to solicit me for a plan until I told them mine lmao
Not trying to get you to switch, but my current Mint Mobile plan is $20/month for unlimited talk & text and 15g high speed data. Uses T-Mobile’s network. Only issue is that you have to pay a year at a time to get the price that low.
Damn if that’s a good deal they’re really fucking you over there. I’m paying about $11 USD a month for unlimited calls, texts and data (Ireland) with roaming data included. I got an early deal with a new carrier about two years ago but it’s €15 a month for the same now.
Grant theft to get your nails done? Are you sure that’s worth it?
There was a woman from the town across the lake who was absolutely convinced my Google voice number was her pastor’s and she needed to pick him up from the airport. She reached out at least three times over two years. TBF, the three-digit “exchange” would have been from that town back in the landline days. I always explained very calmly that I’m sure Pastor Jeff would be very happy to hear from her but she was going to need to figure out his phone number herself.
Plot twist: Pastor Jeff’s been dead and gone for years, but every time Ethel’s dementia clears off, the smell of the flowers she had in her window that day returns to her mind so vividly that she’s transported back to a gentler time…
LOL, you might not be wrong.
I looked up my old GVoice texts, and she’s still there! It was Pastor Walter and Deedra and it was months, not years.
And yes, younger me may have messed with her, but just a little.
If it involves a pastor it’s highly unlikely to have been gentler.
Narrator: Pastor Jeff says God requires her service after long flights.
