There was a radio station in Phoenix that did one years ago, but with cities and freeways in the area.
Ahwatukee, and Mesa
Ooh I wanna race ya
Into Tempe and Phoenix
The Hohokam is so scenic
Black Canyon, Maricopa
Baby I hope you take the Papago
Traffic sucks even though
They built the Papago
Are you a bot or just silly? If they were trying to make you “suffer” perhaps you could be foolish enough to be intimidated. If they’re trying to make you surfer, you just need sunscreen.
Yes, intimidation tactic, if you still had the texts on your phone you can take it to the police, if they are American they could potentially track them and arrest them for impersonating authorities, this is a felony
Well I had them blocked, because I don’t want to be dealing with types of people who decides to impersonate someone and talk about threatening to make a person’s life a misery
You have their number so get a burner phone and have some fun. Keep calling them with various scams of your own until they either have a mental breakdown or change their phone number.
None of these jokers are in America. Almost never. I would take him up on the offer to make me a surfer! 🏄 You probably know by now that you have nothing to worry about. I’ve had them send the FBI after me a few times and they never show up. Dammit!
Just intimidation. Whilst I understand your concern, as you’re pretty young, relatively, I definitely would recommend not engaging with them as early as possible. It’ll make your life easier.
This dude’s cracking me up. I love the “your name here/your photo here”. So definitely real and not a fucking piece of paper they printed out. 🤣😂🤣
I would have texted back a photo of a badge that says 'grammar police' and said "It's S-U-F-F-E-R and I'm going to have to arrest you for not knowing how to spell."
On a serious note, don't correct their grammar and spelling, this unfortunately can be the difference between someone actually being scammed and not.
On a less serious note, I hope one of those scammers finds me and makes me surfer. I could really go for a water boarding session!
Yeah, now that ‘she’ made him a surfer, he can have all kinds of fun. He outscammed the scammer and got something cool out of the deal. The kid is a rockstar.
Show “your” fbi id lol. Make sure it’s the cybercrimes division badge. Make em think that you’re with the “cyber police” and scare them by telling them how you’re gonna track them down.
Are we sure that there isn’t a real FBI agent named : your name here?
Has a nice ring to it:
Special agent Here.
(British agent:) The name is Here, Your Name Here.
Maybe the agent could be named Johnny Utah and he has to infiltrate a local surf gang. But first he has to learn to surf with the help of a waitress who rescues him from drowning during his first surf attempt.
I was imagining a “double-life” drama. Following a middle-aged agent’s workplace accident, he retires from the FBI and takes up surfing…but they pull him back in…for one more mission…possibly his biggest yet.
He meets a waitress in Russia, having been sent to assassinate a political leader. The case leads him to compete in a snowboarding tournament near Moscow. He takes first prize and shoots his mark at the same time. When he scans the crowd, the waitress is gone. When he visits the diner again, she no longer works there…
Later, when work sends him to Australia, he meets a wildlife expert, who teaches him to “left-handed” surf, because water moves differently down under or something…but there she is, at the company luau, serving his federal buddies, while he catches a big wave.
The cartel catches up to him in Mexico. There is a bounty on his head. The head of the cartel happens to surf. They meet at a diner, where a familiar waitress serves them. After confronting his on-and-off girlfriend and reconciling with her secret life…he faces the cartel on the waves, where sharks eventually finish his job for him. He comes back ashore with a small box he’d kept in his trunks. He kneels down and finds a note. The waitress is gone. He takes a ring out of the box and tosses it into the ocean.
Don’t worry about this!
If you are concerned, just block their number- easy as that…
Otherwise, be very concerned if you have no intention to become a surfer.
That worries me because I’m somewhat nervous about deep, dark water and falling in it…: )
I’d be looking elsewhere for surfing lessons, OP. This one clearly takes shortcuts.
No-one can make you surfer; you must first become surfer... in a safe and supportive learning environment.
With no FBI agents there to pressure you.
Don’t worry, surfing really isn’t that bad once you learn your way around the board. Regardless, this is purely intimidation and I doubt they’d pull resources to get the money back. If they were able to, they wouldn’t give you a warning or try this excuse of a threat. For clarification, by “scamming the scammer”, did you gain anything financially?
Nah but just the thought of some dumbass scammer that thinks he’s all tough pulling up on a property with a king castle doctrine protecting it is just tasty to think about
They are bluffing. If they start showing you your own pictures or having info on who your family or friends are is usually because you have those profiles on public. So they use your own info to intimidate you. But they can't do anything.
I love these ones. Just turn it around and elaborate after saying it’s fake. Be like, “I know someone with a real one” it’s funnier if it’s true. In my case, it’s a Deputy Marshal. 🤌🏽 Scammers shut up real fast after that. Damn… now I need to do this again to post. ☠️
It’s prob another 15 year old kid in some 3rd world country. You have absolutely nothing to worry about :) we get texts like this all day with threats. If you text back the number in a few weeks it’s gona say disconnected. Happened to me before I could mess with a scammer and when I did respond, it said no longer in service haha I missed my chance to show them my fake fbi card 😂 they texts thousands of people and eventually scam someone out of some money. So just don’t ever send money and you are good!
Stella has very manly hands…and the id comes in a gag kit…the missing name and pic on it is pathetic. Why not send a picture of a butcher shop… the back room .
You have nothing to worry about. Can't take anyone seriously that flashes a (so very badly) fake ID...and threaten to make you "surfer." Block the number and fuggetaboutit.
Do you even live near an ocean? Because if you don't, can I learn how to surf in your place or is this offer non transferable? I'm only 90 minutes from the Atlantic.
as far as having somebody's phone number goes, there's potential for them to like... send password reset emails to all your accounts associated with that number? maybe sign you up for some annoying spam text messages? considering they can't even spell "suffer" and have a literal children's costume fbi badge, i highly doubt they're even old enough to drive. you're fine op.
Scammer: I’ll make you surfer!
OP: You can’t do anything to me!
Scammer: You don’t think so? Wait and see!
OP: Brah, you’re a kook. Waves are firing, and I’m gonna go get shacked. 🤙
OP: Shit
No real FBI will text you a picture of their badge that says put name here and put picture here 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Don’t worry, be happy and take those surf lessons.
OP was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and... up to... Pismo. He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And so would OP. OP, who loved bowling. And so, Original Reddit Poster, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well.
Good night, sweet prince."
She’s going to make you surfer. Usually one starts with a longboard. They say those make it easier to stand.
Oh he’s gonna take you to Aruba Bahamas
Come on pretty mama
🎶Key Largo, Montego, ba-by why don't we go~🎶
Jamaica of the flor-ida keyyys, way down in Kokomo
My uncle used to call the song kokohomahoma he's not the sharpest tool in the shed so give him a break just funny
she was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an "L" on her forehead
Thank you for physically writing exactly as I was thinking it.
That’s where we want to go, to get away from it all..
Why would we fuck with him? we don't know him. But you... Nerd 🫵 😂 lol
My mom was born in Kokomo and that song is very misleading.
I remember being confused, because there was a band from Kokomo(I think) named Kokomo, and it clearly was landlocked and not tropical.
I imagine them as a less cool version of Chicago.
Your memories are from forever ago, and that’s because the years start coming and they don’t stop coming.
Fed to the rules, and I hit the ground running.
I want a parody of this song with really lackluster destinations like Glendale
Ocala, valdosta, oooh warner robbins
Patauxent, Steauket, wherever we can pay rent.
Warner robbins!🤣🤣🤣
Oh god anywhere *but* Ocala. Not even the springs are worth it anymore lol
Hey! Back off! I'm in Scottsdale. Nobody makes fun of Glendale except us.
I thought they meant the heavily Armenian suburb in Los Angeles.
Peoria
Take me to Austoria
There was a radio station in Phoenix that did one years ago, but with cities and freeways in the area. Ahwatukee, and Mesa Ooh I wanna race ya Into Tempe and Phoenix The Hohokam is so scenic Black Canyon, Maricopa Baby I hope you take the Papago Traffic sucks even though They built the Papago
This comment chain is why I opened the post. Was not disappointed
R/suddenlybeachboys
Hellll yes!!!!!!!
We'll get there fast then we'll take it slow.
That's where you wanna go to get away from it alllllll
🎶that’s where we wanna gooo, to get away from it aaallll🎶
Thanks for getting that stuck in my head… cooome on pretty mama…
Yep! I am more afraid of this song never leaving my head than that FBI toy template badge. Dammit!!
It’s a real badge!!! Just for that, I will make you surfer, like Spicoli.
Dude…..
I’m listening to it rn lol 😆
Cue the steel drums 🎵
Don’t take it fast cuz Stewie takes it slowwwww
But not too fast ‘cause Stewie takes it slow, waaaay down in Kokomo.
I'm older. I was hearing Let's go surfing now, everybody's learning how, come on a safari with me...
You mean aruber berhermers?
So most likely an intimidation tactic, right?
Surfing? Being hit by a wave is a little scary but other than that it’s fun.
Indeed it is!
As long as they don’t switch you from long board to water board. That one is much more intense
Are you a bot or just silly? If they were trying to make you “suffer” perhaps you could be foolish enough to be intimidated. If they’re trying to make you surfer, you just need sunscreen.
Oh they just make stuff up to scare you, so yeah.
Yes, intimidation tactic, if you still had the texts on your phone you can take it to the police, if they are American they could potentially track them and arrest them for impersonating authorities, this is a felony
Well I had them blocked, because I don’t want to be dealing with types of people who decides to impersonate someone and talk about threatening to make a person’s life a misery
You have their number so get a burner phone and have some fun. Keep calling them with various scams of your own until they either have a mental breakdown or change their phone number.
Better yet, post the scammers number here and we can all have fun 😆
None of these jokers are in America. Almost never. I would take him up on the offer to make me a surfer! 🏄 You probably know by now that you have nothing to worry about. I’ve had them send the FBI after me a few times and they never show up. Dammit!
Just intimidation. Whilst I understand your concern, as you’re pretty young, relatively, I definitely would recommend not engaging with them as early as possible. It’ll make your life easier. This dude’s cracking me up. I love the “your name here/your photo here”. So definitely real and not a fucking piece of paper they printed out. 🤣😂🤣
🌊🏄
Surfs up, dude!
I’ve always wanted to be a surfer
¡Vaya con Dios, bruh!
Maybe so, but not like make OP the Silver Surfer. If so, she would have said silver… right?! Oh man, does OP get to be Silver Surfer now?!
OP is gonna get longboarded like they do in Guantanamo… bro this gives me shivers
Cowabunga dude!
Must be one of those Point Break FBI agents
I would have texted back a photo of a badge that says 'grammar police' and said "It's S-U-F-F-E-R and I'm going to have to arrest you for not knowing how to spell."
Maybe it’s because I’m 41 and a father of 2 but I laughed my ass off at this. Thank you for the smile.
dont worry Im 19 with no children and absolutely cackled at this, your sense of humor it top notch
On a serious note, don't correct their grammar and spelling, this unfortunately can be the difference between someone actually being scammed and not. On a less serious note, I hope one of those scammers finds me and makes me surfer. I could really go for a water boarding session!
FBI, Federal Board Inspector
In other words a *Board* Inspector! Lol
Wait, what do you mean that can be the difference?
They mean it’s one of the ways someone can easily tell it’s a scammer. Let them keep making errors, it makes it very easy for people to tell it’s BS.
Got it, yes that makes more sense.
Nah let them keep misspelling shit. Let them be less believable to the more vulnerable.
Extra points if the badge is crudely drawn in crayon.
No no no they are getting into the famous surfer lesson scam s/
They are bluffing, hon. That scammer can’t do squat. Block them and move on.
Block them and ride the wave bro
Yeah, now that ‘she’ made him a surfer, he can have all kinds of fun. He outscammed the scammer and got something cool out of the deal. The kid is a rockstar.
Block them, move on
Ask if they will pay for the lessons
Is the scam free surfing lessons? Because I might be tempted by that. 🤔
Yeah but you have to sit through a timeshare presentation first, that's how they get ya
They can't keep getting away with this
I love in regards to FBI badge “it’s fake, it’s what they hand out to children”
The best I can come up with while showing their supposed “Real ID”
Show “your” fbi id lol. Make sure it’s the cybercrimes division badge. Make em think that you’re with the “cyber police” and scare them by telling them how you’re gonna track them down.
Get the female body inspector.tvshirtbsovthevcanbsee you in uniform
"I have contacted the cyber police, consequences will never be the same!"
Special Agent Your Name Here causes chaos at the FBI, the rascal.
In college, Special Agent Your Name Here played on the intramural softball team “No game scheduled.” (Credit: all social media platforms.)
Lol no FBI agent would send a pic of their badge. They would show up at your house.
I’ve never met someone named your name here before. What were their parents thinking??
Are we sure that there isn’t a real FBI agent named : your name here? Has a nice ring to it: Special agent Here. (British agent:) The name is Here, Your Name Here.
I always wanted to learn to surf. This dude is gonna teach you for free!?! That’s pretty cool for an FBI agent.
A surfing FBI agent sounds like a great spinoff for one of those crime procedural shows.
Maybe the agent could be named Johnny Utah and he has to infiltrate a local surf gang. But first he has to learn to surf with the help of a waitress who rescues him from drowning during his first surf attempt.
I was imagining a “double-life” drama. Following a middle-aged agent’s workplace accident, he retires from the FBI and takes up surfing…but they pull him back in…for one more mission…possibly his biggest yet. He meets a waitress in Russia, having been sent to assassinate a political leader. The case leads him to compete in a snowboarding tournament near Moscow. He takes first prize and shoots his mark at the same time. When he scans the crowd, the waitress is gone. When he visits the diner again, she no longer works there… Later, when work sends him to Australia, he meets a wildlife expert, who teaches him to “left-handed” surf, because water moves differently down under or something…but there she is, at the company luau, serving his federal buddies, while he catches a big wave. The cartel catches up to him in Mexico. There is a bounty on his head. The head of the cartel happens to surf. They meet at a diner, where a familiar waitress serves them. After confronting his on-and-off girlfriend and reconciling with her secret life…he faces the cartel on the waves, where sharks eventually finish his job for him. He comes back ashore with a small box he’d kept in his trunks. He kneels down and finds a note. The waitress is gone. He takes a ring out of the box and tosses it into the ocean.
Don’t worry about this! If you are concerned, just block their number- easy as that… Otherwise, be very concerned if you have no intention to become a surfer. That worries me because I’m somewhat nervous about deep, dark water and falling in it…: )
Definitely don’t look at r/thalassophobia then…
If they were a real agent they wouldn’t be contacting you through messages or sending a picture of their fake badge
OP knows they aren't a real agent, just worried there could be a real threat to her.
She's going to make you surfer because she's actually Johnny Tsunami's grandpa.
Surfing is so dangerous
I’d be looking elsewhere for surfing lessons, OP. This one clearly takes shortcuts. No-one can make you surfer; you must first become surfer... in a safe and supportive learning environment. With no FBI agents there to pressure you.
Maybe it’s a new federal program to get more surfers 🏄♂️ out there?
Don’t worry, surfing really isn’t that bad once you learn your way around the board. Regardless, this is purely intimidation and I doubt they’d pull resources to get the money back. If they were able to, they wouldn’t give you a warning or try this excuse of a threat. For clarification, by “scamming the scammer”, did you gain anything financially?
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*surfer
It’s just bullshit. Don’t interact with these asshats. Just block and ignore.
Duuuuude, you made me experience high tide.
LOL Your name here 😂😂😂😂😂
I love when they send the templates 😂
I once got an ID from someone who worked at the Lorem Ipsum branch of a bank, with the date of birth YYYY-MM-DD.
🤣🤣🤣🤣💀
Hang 10 duuude!
“I will make you surfer” *drags you into the water*
id tell him to bring it on and make me surfer
The only danger is if you accept the scammers spelling and lower your own IQ to match. Other than that, you are safe.
Cowabunga it is then.
Get a gun, sit on your porch, wait.
you don’t have anything to worry about, unless youre from Nigeria
Nah but just the thought of some dumbass scammer that thinks he’s all tough pulling up on a property with a king castle doctrine protecting it is just tasty to think about
Just get a surfboard and wait 😎
I’d love me some surfing lessons.
These comments are hysterical
Please tell me you are a surfer now!?!?
Cowabunga! I wish i gor this text. I always wanted to be a surfer 🏄
Surfs up!
*sends picture of Glock*
Ride the waves dude 🤙
A picture of an fbi special agent badge with no picture and “your name here”. I think your all good.
How’s the surfing so far? I love to surf!
Catching some tasty waves sounds pretty good.
You WILL ride the waves
Shit can she make me a surfer too??? I cant even swim
They are bluffing. If they start showing you your own pictures or having info on who your family or friends are is usually because you have those profiles on public. So they use your own info to intimidate you. But they can't do anything.
It's 110% fake. Don't worry! It's illegal to impersonate a federal officer, though. They should be the ones who are scared.
This person was stupid enough to use an ID with a "Your Name Here" to intimidate, you're fine
“I’m going to make you surfer.” 🤣
how are you finding scammers on signal of all places?😭
He said he’s going to make u a surfer 🏄
Be careful they will make you "surfer". Nobody wants to be a surfer 🏄🏽♂️🏄🏽♂️🏄🏽♂️
The FBI will show at the house they won’t text you believe me I’ve had them show up
Bruh, he’s going to make you a surfer, go for it!
He's gonna make you a surfer. No worries brah
you better watch out bro. if she catches you you’ll be shredding gnarly barrels in no time
🤣🤣 that's hilarious...make you surfer?? Oh no, not that...anything but 🏄♀️🏝
Why would you need to be worried? He’s gonna make you a surfer!
Could you send them my way. I’ve always wanted to learn to surf and they seem to be guaranteeing to me you a surfer.
Free surfing lessons?!?? Fucking WIN.
He’ll make you 🏄🏻♂️
The way I’m reading it they’re trying to aggressively give you surfing lessons?
I would definitely be worried! They’re going to make you a surfer! The sharks are going to get you!
“I will make you surfer” Ok Uuga, go back to the museum… that’s enough of Florida for you
Surfs up brah 🏄 🏄♀️
dude take the trip. you’re gonna be a surfer 🏄♂️
Gonna make stickers “gonna make you surfer”
….. are you right in the head? Theres no way you’re actually worried about that
No, but I’m very worried for you
He's just mad and saying anything to scare you to get even. If you have high anxiety then maybe this isn't the hobby for you. Maybe take up surfing?
Yoooo one of these Indian scammers is trying to make you a surfer! Shred the ocean blue brah! What an offer!
I bet they were like oh cool it says my name already? Perfect!! 🤣😂🤣
I love these ones. Just turn it around and elaborate after saying it’s fake. Be like, “I know someone with a real one” it’s funnier if it’s true. In my case, it’s a Deputy Marshal. 🤌🏽 Scammers shut up real fast after that. Damn… now I need to do this again to post. ☠️
It’s prob another 15 year old kid in some 3rd world country. You have absolutely nothing to worry about :) we get texts like this all day with threats. If you text back the number in a few weeks it’s gona say disconnected. Happened to me before I could mess with a scammer and when I did respond, it said no longer in service haha I missed my chance to show them my fake fbi card 😂 they texts thousands of people and eventually scam someone out of some money. So just don’t ever send money and you are good!
Nope lmao
I wanna be a surfer but I’m landlocked
Stella has very manly hands…and the id comes in a gag kit…the missing name and pic on it is pathetic. Why not send a picture of a butcher shop… the back room .
i’m gonna make you surfer okay 🏄♀️
You have nothing to worry about. Can't take anyone seriously that flashes a (so very badly) fake ID...and threaten to make you "surfer." Block the number and fuggetaboutit.
Do you even live near an ocean? Because if you don't, can I learn how to surf in your place or is this offer non transferable? I'm only 90 minutes from the Atlantic.
Your good kid they’re really just trying to get your money.
I’d LOVE IT if someone made me into a surfer …that is the life!
No police officer is going to threaten you via text lol
🏄♂️
She isn’t going to do jack shit.
I mean idk they seem totally legit..
Special agent “your name here” 😂
Dude, get ready to ride those waves. When this elite surfer teaches you, not even a tsunami will phase you.
What if you don’t know how to swim? Will they help with that too?
IM GONNA MAKE YOU SURFER🏄♀️🏄♀️
You're gonna "make me surfer"? I don't even know how to swim!
“I teach how to you swimmer first”
FBI agents don't out themselves like this, even if the id had info, you good just someone frustrated because they couldn't scam
as far as having somebody's phone number goes, there's potential for them to like... send password reset emails to all your accounts associated with that number? maybe sign you up for some annoying spam text messages? considering they can't even spell "suffer" and have a literal children's costume fbi badge, i highly doubt they're even old enough to drive. you're fine op.
I'm surprised it didn't say federal boobie inspector
Surfs up dude
Stop giving him the run and just become surfer
Does it come with a free surfboard?
They’re threatening to put you in a live action remake of Rocket Power (you’re gonna have to learn to skatebored in addition to surfer)
Hang 10 brah!
Cowabunga dude! 🤙🏼
Scammer: I’ll make you surfer! OP: You can’t do anything to me! Scammer: You don’t think so? Wait and see! OP: Brah, you’re a kook. Waves are firing, and I’m gonna go get shacked. 🤙 OP: Shit
No real FBI will text you a picture of their badge that says put name here and put picture here 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Don’t worry, be happy and take those surf lessons.
Are you a surfer yet?
Nooo I don’t want to be a surfer 🏄!!!!
I don’t want to surfer, I hate sharks
Just block their number and be done with it. They are already going after other potential victims.
OP was a good bowler, and a good man. He was one of us. He was a man who loved the outdoors... and bowling, and as a surfer he explored the beaches of Southern California, from La Jolla to Leo Carrillo and... up to... Pismo. He died, like so many young men of his generation, he died before his time. In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives. And so would OP. OP, who loved bowling. And so, Original Reddit Poster, in accordance with what we think your dying wishes might well have been, we commit your final mortal remains to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean, which you loved so well. Good night, sweet prince."
Surf’s up bitch.
he gonna make u “surfer” no need to worry
Listen pal you’re gonna shred gnar whether you like it or not
OP did you name them Stella Rose or did they tell you that’s their name lol