Someone Tried to Catfish Me

[Otter74]

You can always reply with, "Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

Request for PSA: Tell Us About Common Phish/Scams

[john70t]

Originally Posted by RobFrost

It's possible it starts out as a bot then a real person pays the bot company to take over the conversations that reply.

That's exactly what happens. The simple bots can't handle questions that go off-script and just keep talking.
So rude.

So that deep commanding bot voice on the line was not afraid of law enforecement either..
https://nationalpolice.org/main/
We don’t engage in telemarketing. If your phone rings, it’s not us.

[RNajarian]

Originally Posted by Gogar

You replied, now you're going to get a few a day until the end of time.

David hasn’t called since I called him/her out.

I imagine once you call the individual out they move on to the next scam.

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by john70t

That's exactly what happens. The simple bots can't handle questions that go off-script and just keep talking.
So rude.

So that deep commanding bot voice on the line was not afraid of law enforecement either..
https://nationalpolice.org/main/
We don’t engage in telemarketing. If your phone rings, it’s not us.

I would get a call every month or two from the sub police organization. It was always a different phone number that I blocked after not speaking and hanging up. Last time I said, take me off the list, and hung up. So, we’ll see if the calls continue….

[unclebilly]

We tried to catfish the kids last night…

No takers…



Wait… wut?

[stealthn]

I smish our clients all the time with AI, it’s part of phishing tests and security awareness training. About 60% fall for it (at the start)

[WolfeMacleod]

Here's my most recent. A couple days ago. I've had several of these lately.

[KFC911]

^^^^ LOL ... and you know it's probably just some old dude named Earl .... catfisher extraordinaire!