Everyone active on the CC sub gets them, Crypto Scammers Blowing up our DM’s. Usually they pretend to be an attractive Asian Woman looking for companionship or wanting to talk about trading strategies. They are always a scam, most commonly a Pig Butchering Scam. A recent cryptocurrency scam has highlighted a need for fraud awareness. The new scam – called “pig butchering” – includes a sophisticated new twist that combines a romance scam with an investment spin. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the term “pig butchering” refers to a time-tested, heavily scripted, and contact intensive process to fatten up the prey before slaughter. Source ——————————————– Like most of you I usually just ignore the scammers. But occasionally I’ll respond with the sole purpose of annoying them, by sending “?” until they stop messaging me. Usually the scammer will give up after a few minutes but this scammer ended up sending “?” back. https://preview.redd.it/knh8rjj52mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=1f20308846fed6289e4fae316db14f2894a33b19 https://preview.redd.it/65sx5jgg2mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=b21162d78296545f63c1dc06c03a5402b1824a19 This “?” back and forth went on for a few minutes before I decided to hit the scammer with a twist a supposed level advancement, suggesting they were playing some elaborate chat game. https://preview.redd.it/ebyekhzw2mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c2abfb10edca7e5d79841501aa485204b4753c5 After four minutes of the Level 2 “??” response I decided to mess with the scammer by suggesting a supposed failure and “restart of level 1”. https://preview.redd.it/daaz81213mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=c399cd0e0d6ca69a3a781ac5597b76b3869c0dc3 This pissed off the scammer and they started spamming question marks until they eventually tried to “end the conversation” https://preview.redd.it/7x9phm7l3mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=8176a3d895a95159fd66ca7c367f96d8bf42a61b https://preview.redd.it/1cdmoc0m3mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=a8d5c5c29ca97761025f062e0715faaa5a71db3c https://preview.redd.it/mal1rz8n3mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=691290157da3afc3a36b09dd2115e0cf1ebdf4cd At this point they were starting to get angry – and they decided to skip their entire conversation build up to throw out their “hook”. https://preview.redd.it/dd5fq7sy3mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=9a6bcdff826712f9952252cfb0109669db766e4b https://preview.redd.it/y35256764mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=40d9d1c824eba24a557a6b2627cc28cf69f609d4 There is no way for the scammer to end this chat without blocking me, something the scammer isn’t aware of. So I continued to just send, “?” after every message they sent. https://preview.redd.it/znsq88in4mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c994e70f44a35dac815c68622024f79043850b0 Eventually they realized they should just stop messaging me to end the conversation. Unfortunately for them I was already committed to messing with the scammer and decided to make them think they were stuck in a chat with a text bot by sending, “Level 1 has timed out. Restarting Level 1” every ten minutes https://preview.redd.it/ouibj52s4mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=bcf8bb60cde579f78a6c6edf4f5bfc741517fc74 I knew it might be over so I threw out another twist for the scammer “Are you still there? Type “Y” for Yes. To end the game type, “End”. https://preview.redd.it/rxgr3uk65mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=eeff22f2981719af83b3b080b894f55a655d0a5c It worked! After telling The scammer they couldn’t end the game because they hadn’t advanced to Level 3, they full blown lost it, Rage sending 200+ “F*** you!” messages in about seven minutes. https://preview.redd.it/31via3sn5mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=c487b586d58aec113731b2949bce2c69ad142b66 https://preview.redd.it/v03fyyzo5mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=1725540e8ad6b2444536baf1bf64d256cb3b5cdf Due to the sheer amount of messages I decided to further irritate them by suggesting they overloaded the system and “restarted level 1”. https://preview.redd.it/ty5gjy2q5mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=0512d8a511f1661fdfe173331a10165d6f723a5d https://preview.redd.it/wuqps4dr5mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=d83bdc13a223232979f4c1d0ec484251ebdd3a64 https://preview.redd.it/ntqpw52t5mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=cd6715f7cdcb963510d0371a33aa86d9f5860bc3 https://preview.redd.it/j4w9wn4u5mab1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=0899d0483fba8322d586c6151b273faef4de980c Eventually they stopped responding and the last message I sent them was, “Thank you for playing. To leave feedback for the developer. Enter a number between 1 and 10.” submitted by /u/GabeSter [link] [comments]
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Everyone active on the CC sub gets them, Crypto Scammers Blowing up our DM’s. Usually they pretend to be an attractive Asian Woman looking for companionship or wanting to talk about trading strategies. They are always a scam, most commonly a Pig Butchering Scam.
A recent cryptocurrency scam has highlighted a need for fraud awareness. The new scam – called “pig butchering” – includes a sophisticated new twist that combines a romance scam with an investment spin. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the term “pig butchering” refers to a time-tested, heavily scripted, and contact intensive process to fatten up the prey before slaughter. Source
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Like most of you I usually just ignore the scammers. But occasionally I’ll respond with the sole purpose of annoying them, by sending “?” until they stop messaging me. Usually the scammer will give up after a few minutes but this scammer ended up sending “?” back.
This “?” back and forth went on for a few minutes before I decided to hit the scammer with a twist a supposed level advancement, suggesting they were playing some elaborate chat game.
After four minutes of the Level 2 “??” response I decided to mess with the scammer by suggesting a supposed failure and “restart of level 1”.
This pissed off the scammer and they started spamming question marks until they eventually tried to “end the conversation”
At this point they were starting to get angry – and they decided to skip their entire conversation build up to throw out their “hook”.
There is no way for the scammer to end this chat without blocking me, something the scammer isn’t aware of. So I continued to just send, “?” after every message they sent.
Eventually they realized they should just stop messaging me to end the conversation. Unfortunately for them I was already committed to messing with the scammer and decided to make them think they were stuck in a chat with a text bot by sending,
“Level 1 has timed out. Restarting Level 1” every ten minutes
I knew it might be over so I threw out another twist for the scammer
“Are you still there? Type “Y” for Yes. To end the game type, “End”.
It worked! After telling The scammer they couldn’t end the game because they hadn’t advanced to Level 3, they full blown lost it, Rage sending 200+ “F*** you!” messages in about seven minutes.
Due to the sheer amount of messages I decided to further irritate them by suggesting they overloaded the system and “restarted level 1”.
Eventually they stopped responding and the last message I sent them was,
“Thank you for playing. To leave feedback for the developer. Enter a number between 1 and 10.”
submitted by /u/GabeSter
[link] [comments]