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Received a text this morning from an unknown number about joining a bracket pool...kind of strange, but figured it might be from a contact whose number I didn't transfer when I got a new phone almost two years ago. When I read it, it sounded pretty normal until the last sentence about paying before getting the bracket pool info.
I've gotten a lot of automated telemarketers or calls from potential scammers with spoofed numbers in the past, which I don't answer, but this was a text and on top of that, an iMessage, not an SMS. The text is from what shows a local area code and another thing worth noting is that there's no potential bad link or Venmo (to send the money) in it at all- meaning whoever it is would have to respond to my reply and also potentially meaning that this is some small-scale scam, unless they have they have replies automated on a large-scale.
Here's a screenshot I took:
Has anyone heard about anything like this? Is it possible to spoof numbers of iMessages? Does it seem like I'm being targeted specifically (someone who I know/knows me with my number) or does this look like a larger-scale and/or automated operation using numbers from directories, etc.?
I've gotten a lot of automated telemarketers or calls from potential scammers with spoofed numbers in the past, which I don't answer, but this was a text and on top of that, an iMessage, not an SMS. The text is from what shows a local area code and another thing worth noting is that there's no potential bad link or Venmo (to send the money) in it at all- meaning whoever it is would have to respond to my reply and also potentially meaning that this is some small-scale scam, unless they have they have replies automated on a large-scale.
Here's a screenshot I took:
Has anyone heard about anything like this? Is it possible to spoof numbers of iMessages? Does it seem like I'm being targeted specifically (someone who I know/knows me with my number) or does this look like a larger-scale and/or automated operation using numbers from directories, etc.?