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Do scammers use whatsapp8/15/2023 ![]() You are everything I love and wanted to love. You are everything I ever wanted in my life. Still, I will not complain about luck on the contrary, I just thank the fact that I am with you now and I will get to enjoy your presence, your intimacy, the sweetness and delicacy of your gestures, your skin and all the pleasure it will give me when it touches mine. I only regret the lost time, I regret not having met you before… But here’s a little secret, which can also be a life motto: “happiness, even if late!” I can’t thank faith enough for having found you. In a couple of hours I will get to see the love of my life. I never get to miss you because I have you in my thoughts all the time you are constantly in my heart, feeding my soul with love and affection, and leaving me with this feeling of fulfillment and happiness. I never get to miss you because I know you are always with me, even when we have many roads and miles between us. It’s great to have you in my heart and to be able to feel you close to me all day long. “If you’re unable to make contact with their original phone number or profile, verify that new communications of this sort are legitimate via a second factor, such as email if a text message comes through,” an ACCC spokesperson said.Good morning my love, i hope you’re having a good night. In the case of this scam, the ACCC recommends people “message the original number or social media profile for the contact to confirm they have lost their phone or changed profile”. ![]() ![]() To protect yourself, the ACCC says people should be suspicious of messages claiming to be a contact for whom you have a different phone number or social media profile. “Scammers may ask victims for money to help with bill payment or money for a new phone,” an ACCC spokesperson said. Scammers may claim their phone was lost, dropped or damaged, and they are using this new number until the old one is fixed. Message me if you’ve seen this,” a message might read, according to Scamwatch. The “mum and dad” scam works like this: A would-be scammer will contact victims through WhatsApp or text message, pretending to be their child. “(My wife) almost believed it.” ‘Mum and dad’ scam “Usually it’s either a private number or something you can’t trace too easily. “We were thinking maybe it’s somebody who knows him, because what surprised me is that the text came through from a mobile number,” Peluso said. While exchanging more messages with the scammer, the couple had heard from their son who told them to report the messages to police.Ī few days later they deleted the messages, thankful they weren’t caught out. “He came back with the bank name and a girl’s name - Michelle,” Peluso said, adding the would-be scammer harassed the couple, checking to see if the funds had been sent. “(My wife) got back to him and asked him, ‘Well how do we pay this money and where do we pay to?’,” Peluso said. Peluso’s “son” then asked for $4095 to help pay some of his bills. Credit: Supplied An example of a conversation with a ‘mum and dad’ scammer. An example of the type of messages that people have received. Her “son” - who was messaging from an Australian number - said he had dropped his phone down the toilet and had to get a new phone and number, Peluso said. When Peluso’s wife first got the message, there was nothing that rang alarm bells. There was just one problem - the person at the other end of the phone wasn’t his son. “The fact that he dropped his phone in the toilet sort of convinced us that it might have been him. ![]() Her son had previously dropped a phone down the drain so this latest incident didn’t seem out of character. ![]() Last month, Melbourne man Sam Peluso’s wife received a message from her son telling her he had a new number after dropping his phone down the toilet. ![]()
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