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Some weird variant of "pig butchering scam"? https://www.propublica.org/article/whats-a-pig-butchering-scam-heres-how-to-avoid-falling-victim-to-one https://ww
by r721 3y ago
Some weird variant of "pig butchering scam"?
https://www.propublica.org/article/whats-a-pig-butchering-scam-heres-how-to-avoid-falling-victim-to-one https://www.propublica.org/article/whats-a-pig-butchering-sc...
- cpach 3y agoNot a bad guess. I wonder why there’s no apparent spaces in the message. Perhaps it was supposed to be some Asian script and then then it became garbled somehow…?
- keepamovin 3y agoBoth possible, but I'd figure the Asian script one would have been decoded by the HN hivemind if it was merely an encoding bork. Regarding possible scamming, I guess to play the role of victim I should reply: “Are you OK? Your message was garbled.” But the curly tail of that theory is that it came from a telco service number.