Alexander Mendoza Scam

[SHUBEAR]

Has anyone else rec'd this text message (this was not verbatim, but, essentially the same tone/vibe): 

I am Alexander Mendoza, I am contacting you about a matter that is happening with several of my girls. Your number has been reported because you were bothering them and you are only wasting their time and their time here is valuable and so you have just been issued a fine which you have to pay and do not try to avoid my messages because it will be worse for you and your family you will have consequences for not having done things well for making my girl waste time with you || You are in serious trouble with my business, you have a fine which you must pay for the good right now, if you don’t pay the fine, you will suffer, we will solve everything, it is better that you pay .???

Obvs, I immediately went to the internet and searched his name and found this ... 

I've blocked the number, but, am curious if anyone else has gotten this. 

 

[+ DrownedBoy]

Yeah. When someone tries to blackmail you with vague remarks and can't get basic English sentence construction right, I just ignore it 

[fancyboot]

My threatening text looked a little different. But the message was the same. The scammer didn’t use a specific name. 

[SHUBEAR]

5 hours ago, fancyboot said:

My threatening text looked a little different. But the message was the same. The scammer didn’t use a specific name. 

Glad I'm not alone! My first instinct was to reply ...

 

[fancyboot]

I came close to responding 

[MikeBiDude]

31 minutes ago, SHUBEAR said:

Glad I'm not alone! My first instinct was to reply ...

 

28 minutes ago, fancyboot said:

I came close to responding 

I’m curious…why would there be any inclination to reply?

[fancyboot]

Deer in headlights syndrome ? Idk. 

[BuffaloKyle]

It really makes me stop and wonder how guys that hire providers are getting this text. Are there male and female providers that are selling phone numbers to someone? Because if someone who doesn't partake in hiring gets this text they aren't even going to understand what exactly it means. 😅

[SHUBEAR]

46 minutes ago, BuffaloKyle said:

It really makes me stop and wonder how guys that hire providers are getting this text. Are there male and female providers that are selling phone numbers to someone? Because if someone who doesn't partake in hiring gets this text they aren't even going to understand what exactly it means. 😅

I can only assume I found an intriguing profile and wanted some additional information. But, to your point, I absolutely agree! It's a pretty specific threat!

[SHUBEAR]

2 hours ago, MikeBiDude said:

I’m curious…why would there be any inclination to reply?

knee-jerk reaction! lol 

[soloyo215]

On 9/7/2024 at 9:50 PM, SHUBEAR said:

Has anyone else rec'd this text message (this was not verbatim, but, essentially the same tone/vibe): 

I am Alexander Mendoza, I am contacting you about a matter that is happening with several of my girls. Your number has been reported because you were bothering them and you are only wasting their time and their time here is valuable and so you have just been issued a fine which you have to pay and do not try to avoid my messages because it will be worse for you and your family you will have consequences for not having done things well for making my girl waste time with you || You are in serious trouble with my business, you have a fine which you must pay for the good right now, if you don’t pay the fine, you will suffer, we will solve everything, it is better that you pay .???

Obvs, I immediately went to the internet and searched his name and found this ... 

I've blocked the number, but, am curious if anyone else has gotten this. 

 

Never saw that before, but it's quite laughable.

Being the king of smart remarks that I am, I'd reply with something that will make them cringe.

I don't know if it's experience in life, in technology, or experience in telling stupid stories, but I can spot that as a scam from miles away.

@SHUBEAR: My inclination to reply is to make that person feel like the shit that they are from trying to scam people, while having fun at their expense, just for the cheap thrill.

[+ DrownedBoy]

It's a common scam towards straight men. The most popular is to pretend they somehow have computer camera footage of you jerking off while on a porn site. They refuse to give proof, only saying that you'll get the proof if you don't pay up and the video appears everywhere.

EDIT They send it to random emails hoping they'll find some cowardly and gullible guy who likes porn and will pay up. I laughed when they sent it to me, an openly gay man.

Meaningless and obvious to anyone with the slightest acquaintance with scams.

Edited September 9, 2024 by DrownedBoy
Clarify scam process

[+ DrownedBoy]

8 hours ago, soloyo215 said:

I'd reply with something that will make them cringe.

Let's hear some ideas. Not that most scammers bother reading non-monetary replies.

[MikeBiDude]

3 hours ago, DrownedBoy said:

Let's hear some ideas. Not that most scammers bother reading non-monetary replies.

The scam bots don’t read them, and you might be confirming that your text number is legit…leading to more bot scammers.

[+ DynamicUno]

56 minutes ago, MikeBiDude said:

The scam bots don’t read them, and you might be confirming that your text number is legit…leading to more bot scammers.

Sadly, it's not even bots usually. The scams like this are often being run by criminal orgs operating in Southeast Asia that use people trafficked and held in remote compounds and  forced to run the scam scripts against their Western targets.  Pig butchering is a cruel scam that devastates lives, and it's even worse to realize the criminals are using slaves to do the work for them.

[maninsoma]

14 hours ago, DrownedBoy said:

It's a common scam towards straight men. The most popular is to pretend they somehow have computer camera footage of you jerking off while on a porn site. They refuse to give proof, only saying that you'll get the proof if you don't pay up and the video appears everywhere.

EDIT They send it to random emails hoping they'll find some cowardly and gullible guy who likes porn and will pay up. I laughed when they sent it to me, an openly gay man.

Meaningless and obvious to anyone with the slightest acquaintance with scams.

When I got that scam email, I'm not even sure they hinted at what "naughty" material I was viewing.  I guess they probably realized it was more lucrative to not specify what someone was supposedly viewing because their lie would be obvious if they approached someone who only watched gay porn with suggestions that they were obviously looking at straight porn.  My scam email also contained a couple of extremely grainy images of what they claimed were me jacking off.  What amused me is that despite the extremely low resolution of the photos (presumably chosen by them because it was nearly impossible to see any detail) it was still obviously not me because (a) I don't even have a camera attached to the computer I use when viewing porn and they guy in the photos was clearly younger and thinner than me.

[soloyo215]

20 hours ago, MikeBiDude said:

The scam bots don’t read them, and you might be confirming that your text number is legit…leading to more bot scammers.

I agree. But some are calls from people, some are posts that are monitored by people too. In my experience, however, I have not gotten bombarded with calls or messages after a reply, and sometimes my reply is just "go away, spambot". In fact, in social media, they just disappear.

Once there was a person offering me loans, and I said that I don't need them because I am a multimillionaire.

The religious ones got a number of funny images of Jesus getting gangbanged by the apostles, and by the Romans.

The offers of dating, sex or hooking up, some of them way off, by supposedly women ( 🤮 ) , depending on my mood, I start asking them if they are willing to do borderline serial killer stuff (don't want to be too explicit since recently there was a post about personal safety).

The ones that come up with an alleged charge to my account and they need to "verify" by asking me my account number, I say something like 69-69-69, or whatever comes to mind. Since I speak several languages, one of them Ojibwe, I have fun by pretending not to understand their English.

My inspiration to have fun at their expense or reply something (of course, not to all, in some cases I ignore and delete) is a combination of my mood at the time, my availability to take time to respond, and what they are asking/selling.

The moment that they try to pull some scam on me, I have no mercy, no consideration and no respect for any of them. That's the bottom line.

[DFdub]

On 9/8/2024 at 3:21 PM, MikeBiDude said:

I’m curious…why would there be any inclination to reply?

Duh... I had to send him my routing and acct info to resolve before the deadline of 3:12p CT or I woulda got charged more texas, fies and fynnes. Boy, are you going to be sorry when they put a lien your house.

[+ DrownedBoy]

22 hours ago, soloyo215 said:

I agree. But some are calls from people, some are posts that are monitored by people too. In my experience, however, I have not gotten bombarded with calls or messages after a reply, and sometimes my reply is just "go away, spambot". In fact, in social media, they just disappear.

Once there was a person offering me loans, and I said that I don't need them because I am a multimillionaire.

The religious ones got a number of funny images of Jesus getting gangbanged by the apostles, and by the Romans.

The offers of dating, sex or hooking up, some of them way off, by supposedly women ( 🤮 ) , depending on my mood, I start asking them if they are willing to do borderline serial killer stuff (don't want to be too explicit since recently there was a post about personal safety).

The ones that come up with an alleged charge to my account and they need to "verify" by asking me my account number, I say something like 69-69-69, or whatever comes to mind. Since I speak several languages, one of them Ojibwe, I have fun by pretending not to understand their English.

My inspiration to have fun at their expense or reply something (of course, not to all, in some cases I ignore and delete) is a combination of my mood at the time, my availability to take time to respond, and what they are asking/selling.

The moment that they try to pull some scam on me, I have no mercy, no consideration and no respect for any of them. That's the bottom line.

I know about the chatbots, but if I've already picked up the phone, I always screw with their head like this 👿 

There are millions of ways to do it. I even read a book with some good mind f@cks for scammers and telemarketers.