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07-11-2016, 04:44 PM
So I was at a wedding yesterday and I shook hands with a man right at the start.
5 hours on, this man wanted to talk to me, he said he's been talking to someone and my family has been invited to a wedding, he kept explaining and from then on he said can I have your mobile number, he kept persisting where can I get your number from? Can I ask your friend for your mobile number.
Why couldn't he tell me this earlier? He lives 40 metres away from me, he could easily have come to my house or even phoned my father before and told him over the phone.
I feel this guy messed me around and the fact he kept asking me for my mobile number, instead of my house[/align] number and email, I feel this was a give away.
What are your thoughts on this situation?
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07-11-2016, 07:38 PM
Bruh he's secretly finessing you to steal your life savings. I wouldn't trust him if I were you.
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07-12-2016, 03:10 AM
Thanks guys.
I told my dad if their is supposedly meant to be a wedding and he said he's heard of nothing, funnily enough the guy hasn't even come to my father to invite my family to a wedding, why was he so desperate for my mobile number? Moreover, he didn't even tell me who the wedding was. All of this tells me is chatting crap.
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07-12-2016, 03:47 AM
I think he was telling a lie to me, that is what I believe. I'm unsure as to why he was so desperate for my mobile number, as opposed to my home number. or other methods of contacting me.
I recently had a number of prank calls to my phone, one in particular where their was a fake call from the government stating I owe them hundreds of thousands of pounds and I'll end up in jail, where the other person just listens to this conversation silently on their phone.
In a sense, you can never know how this person would use my mobile number.
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07-12-2016, 04:33 AM
Sounds quite peculiar have never experienced anything like that a guy chasing me for a phone number, might be a one-off.
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07-12-2016, 04:53 AM
There is no larger issue to discuss from your anecdote.
This is a very specific, individual, random incident- as well as being inconsequential. It should have gone in the lounge if anything, not thread worthy.
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07-12-2016, 08:50 AM
Quote: (07-12-2016 03:47 AM)Atom89 Wrote:
I think he was telling a lie to me, that is what I believe. I'm unsure as to why he was so desperate for my mobile number, as opposed to my home number. or other methods of contacting me.
I recently had a number of prank calls to my phone, one in particular where their was a fake call from the government stating I owe them hundreds of thousands of pounds and I'll end up in jail, where the other person just listens to this conversation silently on their phone.
In a sense, you can never know how this person would use my mobile number.
That's not a prank call, that's an increasingly common but random scam call, usually by scam artists from India or Africa who prey on gullible senior citizens and immigrants.
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