This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/scams by /u/that_orange_hat on 2025-06-13 21:51:16+00:00.

I’ve been getting an influx of those weird “fake wrong number” scam texts ranging from just goofy to vaguely ominous, and it really makes me wonder why people spend their time writing these ridiculous texts.

I get the basic premise of the scam and I’m sure it could be pulled off by someone really smart who could come up with a plausible premise for the “wrong number text” and an excuse to continue the conversation, but the texts I get are always weird and obviously sketchy – they text me something like “Hey, how ya doing?✶” (with some obscure emoji stuck on the end for no reason), and the one time I replied they introduced themselves as “Magdalena” and appended a picture that was obviously the result of looking up “normal girl selfie” on Google Images.

With the obviously sketchy way it’s executed, does this scam really have a high enough success rate for the people behind it to keep doing it? I can’t imagine who would actually start a conversation as a result of these absurd texts.