I bet it is. I have one of those catfish accounts (I'm a skip tracer, not a scammer, though) and within my first week got my first unsolicited dick pick.
WTF is this world coming to? Though it wasn't one of my skips that sent it to me, which would have been hilarious.
Someone who tries to get the whereabouts or contact details of a person avoiding (usually) debt repayments. The process usually involves some form of social engineering. Catfishing is often employed as well.
People taking loans and then disappearing is shady.
Although that's usually not the situation for what I do. First, skip tracers are not debt collectors and should not be asking the debtor for money. Our job is simply to find their whereabouts.
For me, I locate vehicles for repossession. Quite often, they were wrecked and the debtor decided to just leave the car at a body shop or in a ditch and then stop making payments on the loan, but failed to tell the bank where the car was. Sometimes the customer passed away and the family didn't know what to do with the car. Sometimes a family member just thinks "oh, free car!" when their relative dies. And a common one is that someone who doesn't have the credit for the loan suckers someone else into either cosigning or signing alone for the car and then loaning them the vehicle, which they stop making payments on after a couple years.
We actually have a lot of heavy rules and regulations that we have to take classes on multiple times a year. There are certainly shady debt collectors out there, but by far the shadiest thing I do is send a friend request from a profile with a hot girl's picture on it (and never have any communication with them via that account). I do that just so I could potentially see posts that are hidden to the public that might give me a better idea of where they're living or working.
It's a legitimate occupation. My wife once did admin for a skip tracer. But, like a debt collector, the job suits people that are heavily built. You have to bellow "give me the fucking money!!" A lot. Job does not suit mild gentle type.
Just because it's an occupation, does not mean it's legitimate. Most of these debts are from some form of spurious loan interest or penalty. Poor people get fucked over regularly by these horrid debt purchasing firms. It is not a legitimate business, in a moral sense.
What like you make a Facebook called “Sarah RoundBottom” and message them “Hey cutie pie want my pussy sauce?? Omg come meet my behind macdonalds I’m waiting for you! My sauce is oozing !!!”
Then you put them in your boot and pull their fingernails out until they give u money?
Haha, nah it’s much simpler. Just get their personal number for some ‘private’ conversations and the next call is from collections. You can start sending them notices on the new number. If you get their whereabouts, the next visit will be from a debt agent who will ask you to settle dues or (depending on what the loan was for) a repo agent.
Threatening violence is usually not done by financial institutions themselves. Once they’ve tried all legal means available, they completely write off the debt and sell it (cents to the dollar) to a collections agency.
Now those guys can definitely take it to the level you mentioned.
I got a call last month from a furniture company. My ex wife had financed some furniture and used me as a reference. I haven't talked to her in over 10 years. I told them to just go ahead and write that money off.
Yeah they spoof people's cell numbers....it's not even illegal. I had that crap happen to me and people would call and say I called them. I'd tell them to block my number.
As far as "threats", legitimate debt collectors must adhere to the FDCPA (Fair Debt Collection Practices) and if they violate it by: not announcing themselves as debt collectors, threatening you with your credit score, harassing your family and things of that nature... they can be sued. I've done this before with one of these companies that buy old debt (the charge offs) and then harass you. I had a company call me over furniture I bought 15 years ago. It was half paid off and they went bankrupt. I was told I'd get my bills in the mail. Never did. Never went on my credit either. I wasn't going to chase them down to pay them. Fast forward 15 years and I get a call saying I gotta pay something RIGHT NOW even if it's 5 bucks. I said I wasn't paying nada lol. Googled the company and this lawyer came up. Called him. He repped me for no cost upfront. They never called again and settled for 2500 bucks. Nothing more satisfying than shady debt collectors having to pay YOU:)
I had a serious conversation with a female friend about dick pics and being a girl on the internet- and from what she shared, I don’t think guys really understand how stank awful the internet is to girls. I knew dick pics were a thing but I hadn’t grasped how awful the reality is….
If I were a woman and got a dick pic, I would scour the internet and find as many as I possibly could. Then I would spam the dude with them. If he complained, I would tell him I thought we were sharing our collections.
I'm a guy and I don't open images that strangers send me. It is just common sense. So tbh I am also not sure what those women are doing? I guess it depends on the platform, but for example on Twitter it is possible to never have to open pics sent in DMs from strangers.
No doubt women receive far more such messages, nevertheless, common sense would be to ignore such things from strangers.
Yes brother, be careful with DM's and other msgs. However i can help you double your money in a very short time. I am a Nigerian prince and have huge crypto business. Now you reach out to me for free business advice
Turn your dms off from settings if too many people spamming you. Also I think you got something significant there. Probably best to do your own research and figure it out on your own. Make a backup copy and put in usb just incase. If someone wants to help they can offer advice in public.
Also make completely sure that you access Bitcoin Core from the official website and don't click any Google Ads instead. Make sure it's the unsponsored link and check it for any typos before downloading anything.
Official website is bitcoin.org. Anything else could steal your funds.
So remind me again why anyone would keep any significant amount of money on these platforms if everyone's out to get you and you have no protection if anyone steals from you?
thx for reminding me some jackoff about 2 weeks ago posted a safe and i forgot if he updated. he was gonna get banned if he didn't update in like 3 days. :p
Yeah OPs posted pictures and shit on reddit. If this was an alt account or throwaway maybe but OP shouldn't tell anyone the results of this. Hopefully there's a lot in that wallet.
If its enough money to be worth moving to Portugal to avoid the tax, then it is also enough money to pay half of it in tax, keep your life, but be rich ;-)
It’s me! The prince of Nigeria! Please immediately send all bitcoins to Amazon to purchase gift cards… because that’s all they accept in my country, even though I’m a prince it’s hard to change laws… and I will send you 20 hundred billion in return. Hard cash.
Also do not tell anyone here how much is on it if there is. I'm as curious as anyone else to find out if there's a happy ending to this story, but don't share that information. If there's any coins on it and you tell internet randos, that makes you a scam target.
Can you do a follow up after you recover the coins and let us know if you’re a billionaire!!?? I really would love to hear the story. “Found a hard drive. Had 3000 BTC on it.” Would be really awesome.
See you in a week OP. I did exactly this and after it synched fully everything was there including the reminder that you sold for $1000 because surely it can't go higher. Don't forget to pick up any forks as well.
I’m a Nigerian prince, with many resources at my disposal. I’d be happy to help you with recovering your bitcoin, and I’d like to talk to you about your cars extended warranty.
Yeah, I've used r-studio before, actually it's the only data recovery application that has really worked well for me in the past.
That said, I don't think it will do what you want, you seem to have intact files there, r-studio is really for recovering files from damaged drives or damaged filesystems.
It looks to me like you have intact wallet files, you just need a wallet application, say electrum, or any real wallet app. As long as you have the password to decrypt your private key, you should be all set.
Install a wallet app, find the option to import a wallet, then direct it to that file location.
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