There’s only been a couple of instances where I’ve really felt so strongly about being scammed or manipulated in any way but there was a strange instance with a scam or phishing number that just wouldn’t leave me alone for one single day.
It was like any normal day for me. Getting myself ready for my first class, grabbing my meal prep from the fridge, watching a couple youtube videos before I leave, etc. I then got a text message on my phone from a number I didn’t know.
The text message read “Hey Logan! I hear that you were free tonight. Did you wanna call for a bit”. Attached to the text was a slightly blurry image of a blonde woman in her bikini that was obviously taken off of getty images.
How could I not know this was a fake number trying to scam me! My name isn’t Logan and no blonde woman would ever take a blurry photo of herself, as well as send a photo to a guy like me. So like any fraud number, I ignored it.
Later in the afternoon, while I was at work, I was surprised to get another text message. It read “I was wondering if you’re still free. I’d like to call you”. I started to question, what if this is just a real person who got the wrong number. But something in my gut told me that whoever this was, it wasn’t a slightly attractive blonde woman in her mid-twenties.
It’s now past midnight and as a procrastinator I tend to cram a lot of my homework. I don’t usually mind since I noticed that I tend to work better during the night.
Nearing three in the morning, I’m starting to get delirious but I continue to keep doing work. As my phone rests on my desk face down, it starts to vibrate. It a spam number. But as I checked the number texting me and the number calling, it was the same. For the hour, that number called me five times over and over.
My mind going delirious started to actually get scared over this random number calling me over and over at three in the morning. 3AM is what people usually refer to as the hour when ghosts and demons tend to roam the mortal realm and that thought did not help my anxiety over this random number.
I couldn’t help but keep stressing so I immediately blocked the number. It was then I realized, maybe I should go to bed.
I know this story isn’t much about being scammed but it’s the other aspects of being in the situation that could affect someone. It’s not just the fear of having your information being stolen but it’s the fear of being approached. Of being a victim.
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