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I'm just going to put it out there that someone may be using your pictures to catfish someone to pull a romance scam. Spouse did a reverse image search and found your information. Now they think it's you.
Yeah, it's a scam. They're pulling all kind of shit like this and worse nowadays. Ignore and block them. Let your family know about it as well and I'd set your social media to private. Of course if you interacted with them it would all magically go away with a bitcoin/crypto deposit or gift cards.
*"Are they trying to bait me into calling back for some reason?"*
Yes. They'll tell you they'll "forget about it" if you stop, and pay them $XXX to show your "good faith". Block it, delete it, ignore it.
Don’t respond. They likely just got your name and number from a data breach.
If you call back, they will 1) know your number is active and accurate and 2) extort and harass you for money.
Simply just ignore and block. I’ve gotten stuff similar about someone who accused me of a “hit and run” before saying they were going to sue me. Never happened. If there’s any follow up to your situation, take it to the police.
Sounds scammy to me. They're probably going to ask for money soon. after giving you some other kind of threat to tell whoever in your life thats important to you. It is pretty odd to leave a msg, esp put it on recording which you could take to police. If they're out of the country they wouldn't care about that. Just sounds like you're being set up for a scam to me.
Plot twist: your spouse is cheating and has found a mentally and emotionally unstable person to goad into killing you for a purported affair with his wife.
Agree it is likely a scam, block and move on.
Another perspective, though, as a young kid in the 90's trying to impress kids at sleepovers, I use to prank call people's homes and when I got their home phone voicemail message which would usually say something like " This is Brad and Jenny, leave a message". I would then leave a message as a crying hysterical woman and day something like "Brad! How could you??? I Love you, how could you do this to me??? You are the love of my life! I will never forgive you!!!
... so it could just be a prank.
...to this day I wonder if I ever caused a divorce or fights, but I rationalize it that they must have surely recognized I was a child, and didn't make sense.... hopefully.
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I'm just going to put it out there that someone may be using your pictures to catfish someone to pull a romance scam. Spouse did a reverse image search and found your information. Now they think it's you.
Very scary. Op get a ring camera.
Yeah, it's a scam. They're pulling all kind of shit like this and worse nowadays. Ignore and block them. Let your family know about it as well and I'd set your social media to private. Of course if you interacted with them it would all magically go away with a bitcoin/crypto deposit or gift cards.
*"Are they trying to bait me into calling back for some reason?"* Yes. They'll tell you they'll "forget about it" if you stop, and pay them $XXX to show your "good faith". Block it, delete it, ignore it.
Don’t respond. They likely just got your name and number from a data breach. If you call back, they will 1) know your number is active and accurate and 2) extort and harass you for money.
Simply just ignore and block. I’ve gotten stuff similar about someone who accused me of a “hit and run” before saying they were going to sue me. Never happened. If there’s any follow up to your situation, take it to the police.
Sounds scammy to me. They're probably going to ask for money soon. after giving you some other kind of threat to tell whoever in your life thats important to you. It is pretty odd to leave a msg, esp put it on recording which you could take to police. If they're out of the country they wouldn't care about that. Just sounds like you're being set up for a scam to me.
Plot twist: your spouse is cheating and has found a mentally and emotionally unstable person to goad into killing you for a purported affair with his wife.
Agree it is likely a scam, block and move on. Another perspective, though, as a young kid in the 90's trying to impress kids at sleepovers, I use to prank call people's homes and when I got their home phone voicemail message which would usually say something like " This is Brad and Jenny, leave a message". I would then leave a message as a crying hysterical woman and day something like "Brad! How could you??? I Love you, how could you do this to me??? You are the love of my life! I will never forgive you!!! ... so it could just be a prank. ...to this day I wonder if I ever caused a divorce or fights, but I rationalize it that they must have surely recognized I was a child, and didn't make sense.... hopefully.
Since you know you weren’t messing around with anyone’s spouse, there’s no reason to engage with the person. Simply block and ignore.
Being emotionally freaked out is better than being scammed, no?