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Old 04-15-15 | 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by jj1091
What's funny is how the sender mixed up his order of texts, and didn't send texts 2 and 3 sequentially. It's probably all done by software. I followed another one earlier, and it led to him wanting me to send him a good-faith check via Western Union, only a part of that "extra" he'd be sending me, so I would hold the bike for him in case it took a while. These 5 texts all came in during the same minute, so I know he couldn't have been sitting there typing on his cell.

Maybe, but just FYI when you type an extra long text and send it out, the system often splits it up into separate texts, and occasionally they arrive out of order. This has happened to me more than once under innocent circumstances. So while the content of the message indicates a probable scam, the text order and speed doesn't really have anything to do with it.

And now the scammers have your phone number.
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