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I keep kind of hoping I get this one. I'm ace, so I definitely haven't been watching porn of any kind, and my house has changed dramatically since the last time google came by, so it would just be entertaining. But then I see people on nextdoor all freaked out that "someone has pictures of their house," and it makes me wish for a large, extremely targeted sinkhole to open up under all these scammers.
My sister got the one where the scam says her son got into a car accident and - mumbling through 'a broken jaw' so thats why the voice is off - Officer Peterson needs to arrange bail, but off the books.
It was surprisingly effective, and my sister had a freakin' heart attack as any parent would, and THOSE people can rot in a hell made of mealworms, ticks and black flies.
My grandma almost fell for this. Asked my mom what to do. Mom almost fell for it. After an hour of freaking out and preparing to go buy itunes gift cards or whatever it was, my mom thought to call me. "Oh my god are you ok what happened where are you etc"
Uhh I'm at my apartment, getting ready for work.
Everyone should talk to their parents and grandparents about this scam.
These scams are effective because of a thing called Amygdala hijack which
"is an emotional response that is immediate, overwhelming, and out of measure with the actual stimulus because it has triggered a much more significant emotional threat."
You can get any human to do dumb things if you can by-pass their logical brain and have them work off the lizard brain.
The hard thing is to actually get past their lizard brain and contact their logical brain.
My mom and I have talked about that kind of thing and she knows to call me directly if someone ever tries to say something happened to me. She's not stupid, but maybe just not growing up with people constantly trying to scam her at every turn hasn't prepared her for the depths these assholes will sink to, and they've gotten so much more sophisticated.
Ah yes, one of the neat advantages of being ace, easily being able to ignore people claiming to know you've watched anything sexual. Either because you never have, or because it'd have to be incredibly specific to ever be right, depending on how being Asexual affects you.