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The Scam That Am
transcript of an actual honest-to-goodness scam communication
I seem to get a lot of scam communications. I think I’m on the GOM (Gullible Old Men) List published annually by the National Scammers Association.
Here is the transcript of a recent attempted scam via text messaging. The pretext was that the scammer was trying to contact someone and used my number by mistake. The rest of the exchange is unedited and presented exactly as it was written — complete with garbled syntax and punctuation— by someone apparently not totally familiar with English. Scammer comments are in bold and my responses are in italics. Annotations are added to three comments.
I am really sorry about my confusion hope you don’t mind
No, I don’t mind.
Thank you. Even though I have wrong but nice to meet you
👍😊👍
You are friendly and kind.I don’t know what’t your name?
Gene.
Nice to meet you Gene. You have nice name
Thank you.
I am Elena I live in Miami how about you ?
I live on Earth. Been here all my life.
What state?
Confusion.
