I’ve gotten a few of these, but I just moved so it only included Google maps images of my old apartment, and I guess the data scrape didn’t get my phone number, so it included language like “I bet you wouldn’t like it if I called you at 0000000000, would you?”
I’m savvy enough to laugh and delete, but I’m sure this would be very effective against some older Americans.
Yeah, I definitely knew it was fake when they called it a “beautiful neighborhood”. My friend did you even look at the picture you sent?
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Good. I could use a house.
This is so good. Congratulations.
nice setup, by the way
thanks man, but how did you get a picture of my room ?!?
I especially like when they tell me my address lol, as if I’m supposed to be scared into responding.
Ha! I don’t even have a house!
Hi, can you send me copy of the video too? You have me email address.
I’m torn between asking them to put up or shut up, and maybe just not confirming they got an address that still works.
I keep kind of hoping I get this one. I’m ace, so I definitely haven’t been watching porn of any kind, and my house has changed dramatically since the last time google came by, so it would just be entertaining. But then I see people on nextdoor all freaked out that “someone has pictures of their house,” and it makes me wish for a large, extremely targeted sinkhole to open up under all these scammers.
My sister got the one where the scam says her son got into a car accident and - mumbling through ‘a broken jaw’ so thats why the voice is off - Officer Peterson needs to arrange bail, but off the books.
It was surprisingly effective, and my sister had a freakin’ heart attack as any parent would, and THOSE people can rot in a hell made of mealworms, ticks and black flies.
These scams are effective because of a thing called Amygdala hijack which
“is an emotional response that is immediate, overwhelming, and out of measure with the actual stimulus because it has triggered a much more significant emotional threat.”
You can get any human to do dumb things if you can by-pass their logical brain and have them work off the lizard brain.
The hard thing is to actually get past their lizard brain and contact their logical brain.
I wonder what those do with people who live in apartment buildings, lol.
It will show street view of the building or road
Pointless – you need to beep through 4 doors to get to my unit. Hell, the elevator won’t even take you to the right floor unless you can get a fob from one of my neighbours so that button will work. Stairs are locked to get ONTO a floor, so they’re only good as exit stairs without another key that only firemen get, and you can’t get in by rappelling onto my patio either, Ethan Hunt.
And I’m behind four firewalls!
Which also has nothing to do with what’s being discussed.
Nobody wants to get into your apartment. This thread is about a digital scam. Have you been paying attention at all?
Watching me while I’m browsing the net?
I got this one
Me too. They had an old address I lived at five years ago. I’m shaking, I’m shaking.
That’s the way to win. Never fill in your actual address. Just keep them trying and make up new fake addresses as soon as you can.
I’ve got a variant of this one about 15 times (minus the picture of my house). I sometimes read it out to my partner for the luls. I never keep a web cam attached to my computer, so I find it even more hilarious with the details they go into about my jerking activities and the questionable porn I watch (everything I enjoy is insanely tame lol)
You make it tempting to actually read scam email …. Almost
I got example 1 verbatim about a month ago complete with Google street view picture of my house. Jokes on them, all of my porn viewing is on an ancient tablet that does not have a front facing camera.
It’s all good.
I’ll just call it a deepfake and get on with my life.
My wife got that one twice already. Not very bright people.
