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by anongraddebt 1187 days ago
One of my close friends was recently scammed out of $203,324 and the scammer used a text message, from an invalid/unused number, as the entry point. The full scam was quite involved and took a little over a month to run through.

She is an immigrant and her parents cleared out a savings account in the process (the scammer convinced all parties involved my friend would be deported unless…).