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Are You Smarter Than a Scammer?
Megan* considered himself a pretty savvy tech girl. So when the text came in, she thought it was just a friendly person texting her.
She had just gone through a bad breakup too and was a little lonely. So she was looking to make some new friends.
The text started out innocent enough:
“I missed you the other day at the party. What is going on?”
She had been to a party the other day and responded.
“Who is this? We met?”
The conversation continued from there. Until a week later she was lured into buying crypto. Then she realized it had all been a scam.
According to NBC News:
The text message came late Tuesday. Like others I’d been getting recently, it wasn’t an obvious scam from the outset — no promise of a warranty or that I’d won a prize, no link to a suspicious website — but instead it seemed to be a frantic message intended for someone else.
It’s the kind of text message that has become common for just about anyone with a smartphone.
“Una, good evening, tomorrow morning the contract time of 10am is shifted to 3pm for signing, I don’t feel well, I need to go to the hospital tomorrow morning to see the doctor”
I responded that it was the…
