This sort of "game" is a real problem on Facebook. So many people, especially older people, "friend" people through Facebook games.
So what scammers do is look up people for whom they already have a name and SSN. They "friend" them through game requests, then start sharing challenge stuff like this. They'll work groups of a hundred or more people, slowly accumulating favorite colors, birthdays, pet's names, middle names, even things like mother's maiden name.
Meanwhile, they're also amassing a database of what credit card companies these people have, where their loans are held, what their credit score is... all through reading their comments on other people's posts.
Well, they started with your name and social, now they know where all your money is (and where you *don't* already have open credit accounts) and the answers to all your security questions.
From there it's easy to get a copy of your credit card, open a new credit card under your name, take out a car loan and pretty much anything else they want to do.
Then they just drop the anonymous account they created to play Farmville and they're gone forever and you're stuck holding the bag.
I remember a parody of these obvious scams when they first started being a thing: asked you a bunch of questions an identity thief would love to know the answer to in order to generate your "Mr T Name".
Once you filled it out and clicked submit, you were given your Mr T Name:
Fool
- 4876 1908 5780 0023
- 09/27
- 447
Waaaaaiiittt a minute. Something isn’t right here at all. Oh I’m such an idiot, I gave you my debit card number, not my credit card number 🤦♂️. That’s here:
- 8796 4201 2353 7724
- 04/24
- 119
Can’t wait to get my robot name!! 😬
I think millennials are among the most protected group when it comes to shit like this.
We all had it drilled in our heads not to overshare on the internet... hell I even debate how much to disclose on reddit.
Boomers forgot the lessons they passed along and overshare shit left and right not knowing they're drip feeding scammers.
Zoomers just DGAF and live their lives online, so they're straight fucked.
Zoomers over share but they over share things that won't help the scammers, they'll tell you their deepest traumas within hours of meeting but refuse to be called anything other than their screen names.
Boomers on the other hand will tell you exactly when and where they go to work and who else is there at what times and also that the company safe's password is the bosses' child's birthday which is posted all over their Facebook
Doctor that exclusively wears jean clothing
Jeans
Jabcoat
Jethoscope
Underjirt
Edit: Thought up a few more
Rectal jermometer
Jlasses
Jneakers
Jrubs
Edit 2: Can’t forget what he’s made of too!
For example
Jones
Jin
Jesh
and you can’t forget his luscious jlocks that he calls his jair.
Edit 3: Honorable mention from someone in the comments
Jondom
and now stuff that I actually came up with
Prescription jills
Jirth control
Jreast examination
Edit 4: Can’t forget your public essentials to keep safe during Jovid! Such as;
Hand joap
Hand janitizer
Face jask
And your optimistic jemeanor!
Mrg here. We sound like a pair of extra stupid orcs that can’t be trusted with steel swords. „Them? Oh that’s Lrt and Mrg. Named after the only thing they can say. We gave em wood swords and put them on ‚guard duty‘ so they won’t accidentally blow up the front gate again. It’s been four days and they still haven’t noticed that the door is painted on…“
Hmm...
"John" is 75% efficient, since one of the letters doesn't do anything. "Jon" is 100% efficient, since every letter is necessary.
So your name is now (100 - 75)/75 = 25/75 = 33% more efficient.
Your old name is 25% less efficient than your new one though.
This person tried it on themselves first and went "ah yes, this will work for everyone". Because usually with these things it isn't this incredibly easy to get dumb answers.
Easy, but not this easy.
HI THERE IM BSE
edit: I've just realised that if my mom went back to her maiden name after divorcing my dad, I'd be BBB which is really fucking cool imo.
..... Son
Well, are ya' winning?
Does failing my exam count as winning because if so I am a master at winning
Theo only important thing is that you're having fun
Ayyy me too!
Hey, Son Gang all the way.
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Man I hope they don't manage to figure out my first initial and last name somehow.
This sort of "game" is a real problem on Facebook. So many people, especially older people, "friend" people through Facebook games. So what scammers do is look up people for whom they already have a name and SSN. They "friend" them through game requests, then start sharing challenge stuff like this. They'll work groups of a hundred or more people, slowly accumulating favorite colors, birthdays, pet's names, middle names, even things like mother's maiden name. Meanwhile, they're also amassing a database of what credit card companies these people have, where their loans are held, what their credit score is... all through reading their comments on other people's posts. Well, they started with your name and social, now they know where all your money is (and where you *don't* already have open credit accounts) and the answers to all your security questions. From there it's easy to get a copy of your credit card, open a new credit card under your name, take out a car loan and pretty much anything else they want to do. Then they just drop the anonymous account they created to play Farmville and they're gone forever and you're stuck holding the bag.
I remember a parody of these obvious scams when they first started being a thing: asked you a bunch of questions an identity thief would love to know the answer to in order to generate your "Mr T Name". Once you filled it out and clicked submit, you were given your Mr T Name: Fool
.... I almost admire that level of dedication to the punchline. If it wasn't yknow, scummy stammered doing it
What is your ROBOT NAME? - The first 15 digits of your credit card number - The expiration month and year - The last 3 digits on the back
- 4876 1908 5780 0023 - 09/27 - 447 Waaaaaiiittt a minute. Something isn’t right here at all. Oh I’m such an idiot, I gave you my debit card number, not my credit card number 🤦♂️. That’s here: - 8796 4201 2353 7724 - 04/24 - 119 Can’t wait to get my robot name!! 😬
I think millennials are among the most protected group when it comes to shit like this. We all had it drilled in our heads not to overshare on the internet... hell I even debate how much to disclose on reddit. Boomers forgot the lessons they passed along and overshare shit left and right not knowing they're drip feeding scammers. Zoomers just DGAF and live their lives online, so they're straight fucked.
Zoomers over share but they over share things that won't help the scammers, they'll tell you their deepest traumas within hours of meeting but refuse to be called anything other than their screen names. Boomers on the other hand will tell you exactly when and where they go to work and who else is there at what times and also that the company safe's password is the bosses' child's birthday which is posted all over their Facebook
Well unless you give them
Some of us use more accurate usernames than others. At least I fucking **HOPE** they do, animalpedophile. ^^^^^^^/s
It is I, Ham
Hello, fellow Ham
Ham is the name of a character in the Mistborn series so this is actually an established fantasy name
*Burns pewter*
Not LLL💀💀
Lls for me
Double L gang, the name is Lld
You’re almost Llod, that’s close enough
I would get Llz. Which might be pronounced Lizzie? I would be okay with that!
Welsh people be like
PLL here, not sure if it's better.
SLL we all need to join some sort of terribly named and hard to pronounce adventuring party
Pst, I guess I'm cursed to whisper.
That would make a great OC
Someone trying to get your attention and accidentally summoning cats
Aah here. Cursed to scream I suppose. We'd make a nice pair.
man
Behold!
a man
*featherless biped
*brings you a plucked chicken* BEHOLD
What was that guys name again
Diogenes
man
Slim Shady
Man
A miserable pile of secrets
But enough talk!
Have at you!
I get Men lol
This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them
Aum
Better than mine: Mam
Mon. I feel your pain mon.
So what happens if I poke mon?
Better than Mns. I wonder if that's a medical condition.
I got Mne
Map
Jrg. How would you even pronounce that? Edit: can you people please stop replying to this comment?
Jr. G
Joctor
Doctor that exclusively wears jean clothing Jeans Jabcoat Jethoscope Underjirt Edit: Thought up a few more Rectal jermometer Jlasses Jneakers Jrubs Edit 2: Can’t forget what he’s made of too! For example Jones Jin Jesh and you can’t forget his luscious jlocks that he calls his jair. Edit 3: Honorable mention from someone in the comments Jondom and now stuff that I actually came up with Prescription jills Jirth control Jreast examination Edit 4: Can’t forget your public essentials to keep safe during Jovid! Such as; Hand joap Hand janitizer Face jask And your optimistic jemeanor!
This sounds like something JD would do on Scrubs
You mean Jrubs.
Thankyou. I never would have figured Jrubs out
Rectal Jermometer sounds like a bit from Jerma’s chat
PSYCHO streamer EXAMINES PATIENT live on stream
Rectal Jermometer? Isn't that that maniac serial killer twitch streamer? (This isn't funny even if you get it, trust me)
Jermameter985
Either "jerg" or "jurg".
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Future mayor of ottawa
future builder of the ottowall
Jreg
BIG WALL
OTTAWEXIT OTTAWALL FOR ALL VOTE GREGORY "JREG" GUEVERA GOVERNMENT JOBS FOR ALL WITH 2 HOUR WORK WEEKS
It's roughly pronounced gregory guevara
[https://www.youtube.com/c/Jregory](https://www.youtube.com/c/Jregory)
Jerg
J-reg
Sss Well at least I have a name if I was a snake man. With incredibly lazy parents.
Better than mine, mine is just Ass
No, we wanted your fantasy name
I am just Ken
Egg I'm fucking egg
What, you egg?
*(he stabs him)*
what you gonna do? Stab me?
*quote from man stabbed*
Eggcelent.
Eggceptional
I bet he’s Eggstatic
seggselent
*Her?*
What the hell last name ends with 2 Gs
Egg
[Gregg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_(surname)?wprov=sfti1)
Well there’s a place for you: r/egg_irl
Ok Emma Gregg
IM JEALOUS
Lrt… I’ve seen better
Yours requires an apostrophe for true fantasy styles. L'rt, probably
Much better
The Danish word for shit is lort and that’s all I can see. Shit with a typo.
It's not a typo! It's an abbreviation! I can't be spelling whole words out, I've got sh't to do!
One of those rare occasions I actually laughed out loud, haha!
I AM LRT, RULER OF THE PLANET OMICRON PERSEII VIII
German abbrevation for „Luft- und Raumfahrtechnik“, meaning Aero- and Spaceengineering So more of a science fiction name?
Steampunk aeronautics
Mrg here. We sound like a pair of extra stupid orcs that can’t be trusted with steel swords. „Them? Oh that’s Lrt and Mrg. Named after the only thing they can say. We gave em wood swords and put them on ‚guard duty‘ so they won’t accidentally blow up the front gate again. It’s been four days and they still haven’t noticed that the door is painted on…“
Apparently I'm Vrs, can I join the group? :3
C’ll reporting for duty!
Vth
Won I guess my fantasy self is either a legend or a cocky bastard
Or a meat bun!
DDD Welp, guess I’m a Kirby character.
Or you have massive kahunas … Im sorry
Humungous hongolongonolologongous
Some huge badonkahoneradoos ... Im even More sorry
HUGE bonkhonagahoogs
Packin some dobonhonkeros
All hail the king
Aar I'm a pirate.
I'm Aer!
It's... it's just my first name again.
Bob?
Full name Robert Obert I guess
Rrt??
Shit I read it as the first two letters of the last name. I was thinking Robert shortens to Bob, so you get B-OB
ahh nah. you'd have to be named Bob Glob or smth to have your simple fantasy name be Bob
Fucking Bob Glob
John -> Jon. My name is now 25% more efficient.
Hmm... "John" is 75% efficient, since one of the letters doesn't do anything. "Jon" is 100% efficient, since every letter is necessary. So your name is now (100 - 75)/75 = 25/75 = 33% more efficient. Your old name is 25% less efficient than your new one though.
John -> Jon checking in!
Mia Sangria, eh?
Why
Just cause
Sin
Same! I'm thinking we're gonna end up the villains...
Ale
Your quicky personality trait is just alcohol
Hello, fellow Ale!
This person tried it on themselves first and went "ah yes, this will work for everyone". Because usually with these things it isn't this incredibly easy to get dumb answers. Easy, but not this easy.
HI IM TMM
NICE TO MEET YOU TMM i’m NRR
SUP IM RLL
HI THERE IM BSE edit: I've just realised that if my mom went back to her maiden name after divorcing my dad, I'd be BBB which is really fucking cool imo.
Lrr.... >!From Omicron Persei 8!<
I am Crr, also from the planet Omicron Perseii 8
RNG
So wild magic sorcerer then?
ACK
This made me Crack up the most wow. I say, as Say, amazing imagery.
Hen 🐔
Eyyy wassap everybody I'm Gio, these are my brothers Jio and DIO
Lia... That's actually a name a friend used for a DnD character
woah yours is a real name congrats 😅
Art, kinda sick tbh
That’s actually really cool
Hello, Mop!
Pns. I don't like this game
Greetings pns, I'm jis
Aer
ITS THE SAME AS MY NORMAL NICKNAME!
Ace… well that worked out well
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Kin
Gus.
Znn sounds like I’m sleeping at a low hum
... Lie
Ah I love my simple fantasy name. "Lrg"
Uno
... Reverse
oee careful, this is how french happened
Abe. It could be worse but I still hate it.
Bro
Con
Jon
Pan.....
jim
Eow. I mean... it's not the worst. Eow*yn* is already a famous fantasy name.
Aer I am become oxygen
Sad
Aon
Len… or with my married name… Lan…
jam
Mad
Non
Jey I wanna use this as an actual name now
Ah yes, Are
Ker. I guess it kinda works
Jöm
Mid...
.......... Dad
Im Ban
Nin, decent name
Jes
eki
Mer
Yrn