October 18th, 2023
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To scam me
October 18th, 2023
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Lizlodude
"I don't have internet!"
iMessage disagrees
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[deleted]
Hahahaha...exactly what I was thinking. Can't hide from the blue bubbles!
(Although iMessage is rare for scammers, from my experience)
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GavHern
i feel like it isn’t a “scam”, they just .. want them to go to a specific location alone ill say
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[deleted]
[removed]
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LivingDisastrous3603
That’s how I’ve met all my vict… ehm… girlfriends
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bugsyramone
Jesus Christ, Dahmer!
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aazws
Damher wasn't into girlfriends...
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Space-Potato0o
Bundy enters the chat
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AnotherAussie101
They however were into him …
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MiiiBiii
Nothing weird, just gay stuff
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silverclovd
Vict-ehm-girlfriends sounds eeriely similar to victim girlfrie....NOO!
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SecretlyaPolarBear
Seems legit to me
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samsergiochew
Googlefisch
Honestly more believable
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agnocoustic
This I got to see.
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BaronVonKeyser
You know.... after seeing this, the guy I saw playing ESO with the gamer tag "Kevin Hates Bears" makes a hell of a lot more sense
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Shortbread_Biscuit
Nah, they intentionally send a pin that's far away from any possible location to make sure no one would agree to go there.
The scam will probably start once you find this Maggie person on social media. Since you've already invested this much effort, you're invested in saving the "trapped" person too, so it'll be easier for this "Maggie" to convince you to send "her" money through Steam gift cards or cash app or zelle, which she'll claim she needs in order to send help to her "trapped friend".
Of course, she'll also claim to reimburse you several times the amount you give her, at a later date, as a reward for your kind act.
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Gelby4
No thanks, I'm already betrothed to my Nigerian Prince
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GospodinMajor
You too?
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ComprehensiveHornet3
Thats my Nigerian Prince, back off.
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CorgiMonsoon
Gurls, gurls, there’s enough Nigerian Prince for all of you
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MiiiBiii
Sounds like a better option
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_Odi_Et_Amo_
Hmm, that sounds possible
I had assumed they were just trying to get "Maggie" inside the 'friend' layer of socials to harvest contacts and anything incriminating and then go for some good old-fashioned blackmail.
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Bushdr78
Thanks for your explanation
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Wick3d3nd3r
That seems almost too convoluted to work on anyone.
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steelcity_
I know that you're right, because I've seen the "gift card" scam a billion times.
But why the theatrics? If they were in a car accident and are actively losing blood as we speak, how on God's green Earth am I finding another person, driving to the store, buying cards, driving back, and giving the codes to the person in time?
The scam already works sometimes, otherwise they wouldn't do it. Just feels way too complicated to work.
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Ashe171
I need 100$ in google play cards to save my friend. Trust me
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DeveloperBRdotnet
Shouldn't the OP or the person report this to the police? Maybe they find out what is going on there
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Eject0-Seat0
I imagine it’s more accepting the pin drop. Maybe it’s suppose to ask you to share your location or something. Don’t know I’ll have to test it on my boss.
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[deleted]
Right??! OP! ...are you afraid of meeting new people?? Lol
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lupinspoopins
It's just a spiritual sweat lodge. No Ill intentions at all. Just wanting everyone to sweat to God.
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qwertyjgly
“contact these people on social media” i feel like they’re trying to get a name to make future attempts more believable
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50rhodes
Probably hasn’t got online either.
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Zubenelgenubo
Please, can you install Telegram and use it to call the ambulance then send me a screenshot showing you tried to save my life...it's the only way cuz I'm on a work phone!
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[deleted]
Doesn’t do the emails
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sophiebophieboo
Email!! It’s just email!
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Quiet_Sea9480
classy!
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visual-vomit
And a specific gps pin
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TRR462
With no Internet.
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Officer-skitty
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Bonneville865
News report the next day:
Gatlinberg man dies from loss of blood after driving off a cliff. An extremely rare blood type, he would have survived if he had gotten a transfusion from Maggie Lizen of Bradford. The two had a pact that they would always be there if the other needed. Unfortunately, she arrived at the hospital minutes too late to help him.
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RedPandaMediaGroup
Too late to clhelp him
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space_absurdity
Your comments aren't clhelping.
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Thy_Chicken_Lord
Neither are clyours
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space_absurdity
Clclearly
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TheOnceAndFutureTurk
Gatlinberg was a good Marine, it’s only a shame the heartless monster he texted couldn’t be bothered to simply reach out to Maggie Lizen of Bradford, now widowed with three kids and a mortgage.
His last words, choked with his own innocent blood, were reported to be: “Mf blocked me.”
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ThreeTwoOneInjection
“The police was unpleasantly surprised to discover the cargo of his car. Three of the seventeenth constrictor boa were killed by the crash but the rest of them were released in the surrounding area. The experts still don’t know where does the snakes were coming nor why they were wearing huge socks with “happy birthday” written over it. More on page 5”
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danielv123
This is how I want to receive all my news.
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PsyKeablr
I had a similar thought as well.
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TheDerpiestDeer
I know right? They even sweat to god it wasn’t a scam.
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BoredBorealis
And they gave some good advice too.
Pleas help.
Just not if they go unheard apparently.
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LucarnAnderson
If this person really needed help they would call emergency services not continue to text a random person. It’s very likely they tried to lure someone to the area to mug them or have them contact the “correct” person who then would ask op for money to get over there.
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RandomRedditor15243
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LucarnAnderson
I know the comment was a joke dude lol i was just commenting about what the real scam could be
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MarioNinja96815
Good save. No one will ever know.
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danijay637
They’re gonna know
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MarioNinja96815
How could they know?
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Honorable_Heathen
Also possibly the trajectory car took off cliff.
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[deleted]
I appreciate you, I was trying to think of what a scam could be here.
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HalfSoul30
They SWEAT to God
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sandwichlick
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NotJustAnotherHuman
Or just or where it’s just a phishing link, like… let me have my fun messing with you… be more creative!
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NarwhalPrudent6323
Met a crypto catfisher on Tinder once. Didn't realize it immediately, took a couple days for them to try to bait me. Once I did realize, I was mad, so I strung them along for like a week. Eventually I got bored so I told them I wanted to invest in crypto. They moved right in to steal-all-my-money mode. After an hour of torturing them by pretending to not understand a single instruction and messing up literally every step they gave me multiple times (there were lots of quotes from the HIMYM episode where Marshall finds out he'll be a judge and his mother can't remove the picture she posted), I let them know that I had spent enough time dabbling in crypto to have smelled their scam a mile away, and that there was never any crypto for them to steal (I cashed out all my holdings a couple years ago and never looked back), and that I had been purposefully wasting their time.
I got everything from them still pretending to be in character and hurt, to finally breaking down and threatening me. They seemed to have forgotten we were on WhatsApp, so I just forwarded the convo along to the local police and blocked them.
I'm sure nothing actually came of it, but it was indeed fun screwing with that shit head for a week.
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KindlyContribution54
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PM_Me_1_Funny_Thing
Yeah for real. R&L or nah bish
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Far-Offer-1305
Even that's better than what I get. "Canada post has a package for you. Please give us your SIN and credit card info." Lazy assholes.
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chefmattmatt
Haven't got that one yet. That sounds fun
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smalls714
I'm getting it texted to me 3x a day you can have my extras. Or all of them really. The numbers are always from the Phillipines so i tell them to choke on pagpag
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Interesting-Month-56
If OP engaged, she’d try to sell him crypto. If he goes to the dropped pin, he’ll be robbed.
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thekrone
If OP engaged, she’d try to sell him crypto.
... How? Surely there's not a real smooth transition from "I was in a horrible accident and I'm bleeding out and dying oh god please help me" to "Hey wanna buy some crypto?" Unless this is a real long game...
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Anitay
OP please help, I'm bleeding out. I need you to buy these crypto bandages so I can patch myself up.
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SanityPlanet
NFT band-aids
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CoMaestro
Likely he messages the person mentioned, who is easily found through Google or something. He messages that person. That person says "oh my god I need to get over there, but I don't have any money, can you help?"
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Werbebanner
Weirdly enough, that's not the case. Out of interest i searched for the person and couldn't find her. But maybe it's because of my location.
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agk23
It's because she died.
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SeaChallenge4843
She never would have made it
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1stEleven
The first messages are meant to filter out anyone with even a bit of critical thinking.
That's why scam messages are so obviously fake. That's by design. You want to be left with only extremely trusting, gullible people.
Then once you find one of those, it's easy to sell them shit.
"As a thank you for saving my life, I have this great offer for you!"
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someguy0211
the same reason scam emails are intentionally sounding like they're written by idiots
because only an idiot would fall for it, the perfect target
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butterflydeflect
That’s exactly what they just said.
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BakedPastaParty
they said exactly that
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butterflydeflect
That was exactly how they said it.
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perpetual_stew
The guy actually drove off a cliff and is bleeding out to build trust with OP, to sell him some NFTs six months from now. Super common scam.
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Interesting-Month-56
They always find a way
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[deleted]
Incredible assortment of issues to deal with.
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AyoBruh
OP is the scam all along
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SuspiciousDuck976
Just checked their profile, on the banner it says it's a burner account used by people who want to share stories without revealing themselves.
Was that there when you checked it? I'm wondering if they put that up to avoid being called out on their bullshit.
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XYuntilDie
Amazing
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marimalgam
this guy's life could be a movie
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creamymoe
You’re the real mvp, nice spotting
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CheapTactics
Not just that, they claim that this account is used by hundreds of people as a burner account.
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Accomplished_Line_10
Op messages Maggie. Maggie rescues her friend. They want to send op a gift of maybe 10k for saving. But that gift got struck somewhere and op need to pay 500 to claim it
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JaronK
Possibly it's this girl's blocked ex who's trying to get her info?
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sidewaystortoise
My money's on it just being a shit prank.
Used to be a surprisingly common thing in dial up days on random chat servers. Although more "there's a fire and I'm trapped".
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mdruckus
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wrenchandrepeat
"Victim found covered in sweat, after furiously sweating to God for hours to no avail"
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Bobcat81TX
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NotJustAnotherHuman
“Admission to the funeral via bitcoin only”
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EnergyRelative1144
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brudzool
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prexton
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ThatsNotARealTree
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[deleted]
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SmadaSlaguod
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Grouchy-Bug5223
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rVarrese
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[deleted]
Or just from another country and learned more formal English.
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Mil_mascaras86
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[deleted]
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raninandout
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[deleted]
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solarnova64
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LETS-GO-GIANTS1981
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06035
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AgentOfDreadful
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marklar_the_malign
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WooliesWhiteLeg
Can’t believe all he wanted to do before he died was reunite with his high school friend and your just let him die!
Cold blooded OP :p
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unknownpathahead
I googled, "Car drives off cliff in Gatlinburg Tennessee in October 2023" Nothing came up.
Either it's fake or they're dead, and no one found them yet..
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TriPigeon
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ExistingReputation63
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BdoeATX
They want you to contact the other person, and send money to help them.
Seen it once before.
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Rentsdueguys
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Interesting-Month-56
LMAO, “I’m dying but I won’t call the cops”
My response would be, hey - I called 911, cops are on the way
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RoselysPaleFace121
Legit this is the best comeback. Had someone fake committing suicide on me and so I had the police going door to door on a military base looking for that boi. "I'm fine! Call them off!" were his last words before I heard a knock on his front door.
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PhasePsychological90
I'd legitimately call the cops and send them to the location. Then I'd tell the scammer I'm on my way with Maggie. When the cops get there and find three junkies with illegal firearms, waiting to rob people, it's a great day.
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BluebirdLivid
Yeah but maybe let's not send a group of police officers into a trap? Maybe the cops shouldn't just "get there and find the junkies." They should have a fuckin swat van and helicopter just in case
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AbdulClamwacker
Sounds like the cops' problem
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Cookman_vom_Berg
Why did I laugh because of that??
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TheRebsauce
I did too. We're terrible people. See you in hell fellow traveler!
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Devisidev
"We're terrible people."
...they're cops.
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vandealex1
Honestly they'd likely get the wrong address anyway.
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A_well_made_pinata
You tell the dispatcher what’s going on. The cops will do what they need to do.
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Novel-Outside452
True. Tell them what they said. Tell them you believe it's a scam, but in the wild case it wasn't you didn't want to do nothing.
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evemeatay
Who the fuck should we send?!? All the bad shit the cops do and the one time they might be useful you’d be like “sounds dangerous, let’s just let this criminal go”. ?!?
It’s not a trap if the cops know what’s up. It’s a reverse trap.
And if this is an attempted robbery or something worse then it would be pretty shitty to just let it go because you didn’t want to tell the cops because they might get hurt. What if some innocent person is killed the next time they try it? I don’t think that’s what’s happening here but it could be.
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The__Nick
Who the fuck should we send?!? All the bad shit the cops do and the one time they might be useful you’d be like “sounds dangerous, let’s just let this criminal go”.
Come on, evemeatay. This isn't like somebody is driving slightly faster than the speed limit or an unarmed black dude. These are real criminals who might fight back.
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KnightHawkXC
If they know they may have weapons they might not even show up.
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regarding_your_bat
the fuck you think cops are for
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Fit_Reveal_6304
Next time you get robbed, who else is going to show up 3 hours late and shoot your dog?
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PhasePsychological90
I didn't say I'd send them unwittingly.
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divuthen
One of my friends came back from the army hooked on heroine and kept threatening suicide to get people to give him money for drugs. I just blocked him one of my friends he was staying with got tired of it slapped his Glock down on the table and said fine fuck it just end it then, he stopped trying that one. Then he kept using 5150 to get out of duis and the cops would just drop him off at the va rather than deal with it. Luckily he finally got his his shit mostly together.
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Yetis-unicorn
That’s the way! Some People who try to use suicide scares to keep you in their life or under their control. If they call and say they’re going to kill themselves and it’s all you fault for whatever reason, just call the police and let them handle it. Don’t get involved directly.
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AmazingAd2765
"Call them off!"
They aren't hunting dogs. XD
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RoselysPaleFace121
Legit idk what he was thinking, lol okay let me tell them you lied, I'm sure they'll really appreciate that.
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BIgChiefTNG
Called the cops on my ex fiancé when she was threatening suicide post break up her family was not happy with me. They thought I was trying to manipulate her somehow but I had all the messages from her talking about it. Even had a few from mutual friends in group chats where she talked about killing me because I took custody of our son. But I haven’t seen her in 8 years now.
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[deleted]
were his last words
So instead of having to kill himself, the cops did it for him?
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DrHugh
Oh, you have stuff in the car the cops shouldn’t see? I’ll just wait until you are dead and see what I find.
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LordCornPop
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Dark0Toast
Right Guard!
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NameUnbroken
Richard Simmons Presents: Sweatin' to the Gospels.
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aazws
What's your phone number?
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29A_3E7
salty religion
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kk074
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Mvk2533
-bone breaking noise- OHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
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Das_bomb
I fear it might be gangrenous.
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2ClearlyInsanePeople
The wound is beginning to smell a little like almonds, which is not good…
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[deleted]
No, really. I am very badly injured.
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[deleted]
Its killing me. Austin powers?
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iltby
Yep Austin Powers 2
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[deleted]
Knew it
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wolf_9823
I was just about to ask if this was Mustafa?! 😂
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kk074
You have to kill me!
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cautiontape2021
Is this mustafa?
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Intelligent-Travel-1
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Would_daver
Nigerian Prince scribbles notes furiously
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fxbob
[Nigerian Music intensifies]
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Jolly-Pound6400
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[deleted]
This might even be the same story after being recycled a few times.
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Why-R-People-So-Dumb
Maybe it’s not the story but his spirit still looking for help 👻
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Jolly-Pound6400
Lmaaaooo! So true.
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biradinte
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[deleted]
It was obviously going to Gatlinburg, TN 37738
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[deleted]
Tennessee, where the cliffs have no internet 🎶🎵
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didntgrowupgrewout
Must have owned a Ford, probably on their way to uncle Rick.
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Wilful_Fox
“I have shit in my car”
I thought they were trapped and had shit themselves when I first read it
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JayGold
"No, don't call the police, I'd be so embarrassed if they saw that I shit myself".
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Outrageous_Tie8471
"You, a random stranger knowing, on the other hand, is fine."
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[deleted]
I definitely would have gone, just to take photos.
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jimilee2
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SpecificWorldliness
Not to mention sending a gps pin while supposedly having no internet. The holes in the story are a solid mile wide with this one.
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doctorniz
You don't need internet for GPS to work :)
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Y0UR_NARRAT0R1
I've been watching a lot of scam baiting so I've seen pretty much all the big ones (and some more obscure ones) but I've never seen this. Seeing as they aren't using a burner phone number, I would say this is more of an attempted kidnapping/murder than a scam. And they're using normal English (most scammers spam "kindly" in almost every text they send)
Definitely dodged a bullet by not taking them seriously.
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essieecks
Scammers are Bioshock fans. Confirmed.
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Grokent
Just Indian. I don't know why they all decided to use 'kindly' in every request, maybe it's their native language, maybe it's cultural, but whatever it is, it's very irritating.
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vol865
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