There are a lot of business and personal loan scams too. I've only had my cell phone number a handful of years. Before that, the phone number belonged to someone else, a woman named Simone Reilly. How do I know that? Here's how: I keep getting calls and text messages from loan companies alerting Simone that she has been approved for the business loan she applied for, or reminding her that she applied for the loan and needs to follow up on the application. I also know she was an uber driver, because she kept getting calls from people seeking transportation. I ALSO know she was a porn actress. That part I googled.
One day, a stranger texted me and said he wanted to "hook up." I asked who is this? He said I know who it is, and he knows me too, we had a chat on some website the other day, and we should meet and have a good time. That's when I realized it wasn't for me, it was for Simone. So I googled his phone number and found out he was a teacher in a public school in Texas. I then responded to the text message telling him he'll need to delete this number from his contact list and never call it again, or I'll call his town's board of ed and inform them that one of their teachers is hooking up with porn actresses, and wouldn't the PTA in that district be interested to discover this information.
I never heard from him again.
I still sometimes get weird texts to Simone though.
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