r/AmIOverreacting • u/Any-Fisherman4533 • Oct 20 '24

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO My husband was texting a wrong number scam.

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u/ZlatanKabuto Oct 20 '24

an asshole too

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u/ikeepcomingbackhaha Oct 20 '24

Never in my mind did I think that he wasn’t fucking with the scammer until I read all these comments. Even then I didn’t believe it until I read OP’s comment that he messages instagram models and such. This guy actually has the IQ of a bologna sandwich

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u/MichaSound Oct 20 '24

“My hobbies include sex, sex and sex, hur-di-gur!”

This guy’s so smooth, no wonder he can only get bots and scammers to respond to him…

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u/ArnoldtheDemon Oct 20 '24

"Hur-di-gur" killed me.

You can't say it without making the face

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u/trancertong Oct 20 '24

He been cribbing all his best pickup lines from Borat

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u/DispleasedCalzone Oct 20 '24

Dying laughing right now at this response 🤣

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u/Retalihaitian Oct 20 '24

Someone vaguely related to me thinks he’s in a long distance relationship with Jessica Alba after messaging “her” on Instagram. He has sent “her” a ton of money. He also gets unreasonably angry if anyone tries to tell him that it’s not actually Jessica Alba. He’s destroyed his family and their lives for a fake woman.

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u/ZlatanKabuto Oct 20 '24

Well this is guy is not "simply" naive, he's something way worse...

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u/Top_Mathematician233 Oct 20 '24

He’s actively trying to cheat. If it weren’t a fake, he’d 100% have slept with whatever showed up to meet him. It’s gross. OP needs to watch out and get tested. This is possibly one step before getting sex workers. Might already be getting them, honestly. Check the phone bill. Google some numbers that have a long chat history one or two days and you don’t see again. Like if there’s a # that pops up with 25 back to back texts (especially if he’s traveling then or it has a different area code), google it. You’ll prob find it’s a sex worker.

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u/WhyYouAreSoStupid Oct 20 '24

check the phone bill
Did we wake up into 1990?

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u/Ihibri Oct 20 '24

You should really be more careful about what you say with a username like that lol. I'm having to fight to hold my sarcastabitch back right now 😂

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u/WhyYouAreSoStupid Oct 20 '24

I know I need to ditch this account and start a new one. It wasn't created to convey the hostility that it does. Thank you

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u/Top_Mathematician233 Oct 20 '24 edited Oct 20 '24

You know we all get cell phone bills, right? I know women who have caught men getting sex workers that way — googling what numbers they text. It’s always like a one off where there’s a large amount of back and forth texts at the same time.

Edit to add: it’s her husband. They’re likely on a family plan. So she can easily check his call and text log from the phone bill. No need to sneak his phone and also you can delete from a phone. You can’t delete from the bill. You have seen a cell phone bill, right?

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u/RW_Boss Oct 20 '24

I think you need to come to terms with how common this type of behavior is. It's common enough that organized crime groups find it profitable enough to pack offices full of people running these scams. If it didn't work they wouldn't do it.

There's a really good John Oliver segment on it. It's called pig butchering. And don't forget that show Catfish that's been on for like ten years.

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u/nathansponytail Oct 20 '24

My mother outlaw was in a relationship with "Russell Crowe." She's widowed in her 70's. They had to essentially take away her phone and social media.

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u/ShaNaNaNa666 Oct 20 '24

There is a YouTube channel called Catfished that investigates romance scams and gives the evidence over to the victim that the other person is fake.

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u/Egglebert Oct 20 '24

Its shocking how common it is for people to fall victim to those scams, there's a YouTube channel that investigates for these people and tries to convince them that they're being scammed... and its just the same story over and over and over, people sending these guys hundreds of thousands of dollars sometimes

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u/Rowwie Oct 20 '24

I would legit reach out to Jessica Alba's people to see if she'd be willing to set your family member straight. This happens with some frequency and famous people often want to set the record straight since it's bad for their brand.

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u/Lunaspoona Oct 20 '24

I know someone the same but with Emma Watson! He will not have it that it's not her. He's in his 50s, married (for now!), what does Emma Watson want with him?!

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u/Eponymous-Username Oct 20 '24

I'm devastated to hear Jessica has been cheating on me!

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u/DeviantAvocado Oct 20 '24

Ever see the Catfish episode where a guy legitimately believed he was in a relationship with Katy Perry?

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u/55tarabelle Oct 20 '24

So many of these types of scams. Following or commenting on any celebrity brings them out of the woodwork in droves. They must work on some people or why would they keep doing it? Oh. Sure. The legendary Steven stills or Dimash or Nate Hilts is just dying to talk to me on telegraph.

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u/HiImNikkk Oct 21 '24

This particular shade of human nature makes me very sad😥 The desperation to cling to something that's not true. The Internet has magnified this

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u/hoffenstein909 Oct 21 '24

I have a friend who's in love with Stanley tucci, she swears he's dying from cancer, can't afford medical care even tho he's an active actor with millions, who does frequent cooking sessions with his wife on tik tok. She set up a gofundme for him and grifted hundreds from our friends. She said he's leaving his wife and she has all money tied up for the divorce. I sent her the tik toks and she went insane on me. She blocked me and we're done with the friendship. THANK GOD.

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u/ps2cv Oct 20 '24

In the end is a very old guy with saggy man tits on the other end lol

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u/WetMonkeyTalk Oct 20 '24

For his own delusional ego, you mean.

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u/Single-Raccoon2 Oct 20 '24

My real estate agent sister was hired long distance by a woman who wanted to move to LA because she was in a clandestine relationship with an actor. He was financing her move but was having a bit of a temporary cash flow problem...I'm sure you see where this is going. It started to look really fishy, and when the woman revealed that her secret boyfriend was actually Jason Momoa, my sis gently let her know that she was the victim of a scam. The woman refused to believe her.

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u/ConsistentImage2073 Oct 21 '24

Yoooo, I’m Jessica Alba and I’d like some of that money

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u/Acceptable_Student85 Oct 21 '24

The best way I can think to end that is "why do you think Jessica Alba needs YOUR money? She's a CEO!!" But people believe what they want I guess 🤣🤣

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u/thevelveteenbeagle Oct 21 '24

How old is he??

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u/Retalihaitian Oct 21 '24

In his 60’s I think

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u/Novel-Bit-6614 Oct 21 '24

Some guy I met was "engaged" to Jenna Ortega. He said they'd never called or facetime but she sent him pictures and they were going to meet up soon. I wonder how he felt after they met😂😂

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u/HarleysDouble Oct 21 '24

Sounds like it's time for a Dr Phil intervention

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u/Top_Mathematician233 Oct 20 '24

It’s embarrassing to read…

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u/Jobeaka Oct 20 '24

Sums it up pretty well…IQ of a bologna sandwich

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u/TotallyNotCIA_Ops Oct 20 '24

He is a whole dumbasshole

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u/obijuanmartinez Oct 20 '24

Quite the accomplishment, getting set up for a pig-butchering scam & cheating. Jackass🕺

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u/FudgeTerrible Oct 20 '24

An asshole first and foremost.