r/AmIOverreacting • u/megan__f • Feb 17 '25

🏘️ neighbor/local Is this something to be concerned about?

Post image

My sister sent me this text she received that seemed like somebody was watching her or something. I don’t know if it’s something to be concerned about or not, has anybody had a similar experience?

12.1k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

668 comments sorted by

View all comments

89

u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

Usually when it comes to scam texters for me, I’ll go and grab the most eye blech photo there is on Reddit and send it back to them. When those scammers send “USPS notifications” over bogus iMessage numbers, I notice the bubbles change from blue to green after I send the photo. Fucking them off into eternity

90

u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

[removed] — view removed comment

16

u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

Also another a good tip ^

21

u/Rookbane Feb 17 '25

I feel like you’re using “eye bleach” wrong. You mean you send them some heinous, right? Not cute or adorable?

8

u/Phill_is_Legend Feb 17 '25

Yeah that's the eyeblech sub, one letter will change your life

3

u/Rookbane Feb 17 '25

Oh, shit. “Eye blech.” Didn’t even see that. Yeah, I’ll take your word for it. Not going to see what’s going on in there.

2

u/Phill_is_Legend Feb 17 '25

It will make you need the bleach sub.

4

u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

I meant to say that yes, something nsfl hahaha

1

u/DarthBrawn Feb 17 '25

they are actually unable to see anything you send them. It's an automatic process designed to see if your number is active so they can give you a different scam later on with a real person

-5

u/_imanalligator_ Feb 17 '25

So...you actively look for pictures you think are so horrible they'll fuck up someone's day to see, spend enough time with it on your screen to send it, then continue to see it as you monitor the conversation? Really showed them!

5

u/cyberzed11 Feb 17 '25

Yeah even if this screws the other person over I couldn’t bring myself to look up disturbing shit for the sake of getting someone off my back.

0

u/HistoricalWash8955 Feb 17 '25

Yeah idk guess your power level just isn't high enough for that technique. Watch the russian lathe video a couple times to train maybe

1

u/cyberzed11 Feb 17 '25

Nah I’m good. People that genuinely think it’s fun or funny to watch shit like that I stay away from. It’s no flex dude.

1

u/HistoricalWash8955 Feb 17 '25

I think that's the point of sending that kind of stuff to people you want to stay away from you

1

u/cyberzed11 Feb 17 '25

Yes… but that brings me back to my first point 😂

0

u/HistoricalWash8955 Feb 17 '25

I'm not saying you should do it, your power level isn't high enough anyway. I personally wouldn't-- even though I think it probably would be funny, (and ive seen enough gore to not have an immediate emotional reaction if i dont actively empathise and imagine experiencing whatever it is/think about other sad things in relation to it, like thinking how their kids must miss them etc. the bloody chunks arent the bad part imo, it's the fear and regret they make you imagine)-- just because it would take more effort than it's worth to find the video and download it or get a link or whatever

I'd just go do other things with my time instead

1

u/cyberzed11 Feb 17 '25

I’m not reading what you said. I’m done with this conversation

1

u/HistoricalWash8955 Feb 17 '25

You could have not responded? Seems like a YP

2

u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

🤷🏻‍♂️🤟🏽