A while back I got a strange text message from an unknown number that seemed to be inviting me over for a barbecue

I copy pasted the text into Google to see if it was a common known spam text where they reveal themself to be a hot young Asian woman looking for love (and money)

Instead, Google happily accepted my invitation to the barbecue

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netsharc 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The invite is probably a bait for people to respond with "sorry, I think you got the wrong number" - this would verify the number is active, and then the scam attempt could begin.

	▲	mcintyre1994 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I wonder if iMessage enables links in subsequent messages after you reply too. All the scams I get now ask me to reply “Y” to enable the links lol, because replying enables it on the previous message. I’m not sure if it enables it on the follow ups too.

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pansa2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I was trying to find the song “Lobachevsky” by Tom Lehrer, but had forgotten both the title and the artist. So I searched for something like “plagiarism song”.

Google told me it was unwilling to help me violate copyright law