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by ThalesX 1903 days ago
What some spammers do in my country for example, is call old people and pretend their (grand/)children were involved in an accident and ask for money for quick interventions (the hospital is out of funds, bla bla). It's sometimes hit or miss cause the person might be next to them, or they just talked, or sometimes they can't figure out if you have a daughter or a son etc.

With a correlated leak like this, it's super easy for me to find your profile, see who you are, what you look like, even from just your profile picture I could potentially see you have a daughter yourself, so I can target your mother that something happened to her granddaughter and you, which would make her pay up even faster possibly.