Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Know Your Scams #2 — What’s the deal with those weird wrong-number texts you’ve been getting?

These texts are usually the lead-in to romance scams that usually end with fake crypto deposits, written so as to imply wealth and success on the part of the scammer, who is often an abused and captive worker operating multiple phones and attempting to con several people from a compound operated by shady gambling rings somewhere in Southeast Asia…