For the record, I’m a man whose name is not Annie and I don’t even like yoga.
They’re looking for a response even if your name isn’t Annie. You saying hey I think you got the wrong number or my name’s not Annie that is engagement. They’re hoping they could then talk to you from that point.
That makes sense. I guess there are people gullible enough to respond or they wouldn’t do it. I just have a hard time comprehending it.
A lot of times they’re looking for lonely people. Or maybe just bored people. There was a last week with John Oliver that did a pretty good in-depth dive on it.
I must have missed that Last Week Tonight. How sad that there are people out there who are that lonely.
It’s not just lonliness, they are preying on decency and kindness too.
I wouldn’t call it gullible to just assume it was a wrong number. 9/10 times I’ve received a message like this it’s just a wrong number so I would immediately assume that’s what happened.
Its a scam, when you show up to the yoga class, they will make you do yoga.
Ugh, every time…
Could also be a “ping” where they send this text to a lot of numbers, and those that respond get recorded as “alive”
Then they can either:
- Do some recon on the number for spear phishing
- Save money by aiming the bigger part of the campaign (possibly multiple or large texts) only towards online numbers
- Some other reason 🤷
Reply with a double entendre, something either horrifying, or revolting. Just to mess with them.
My succulent oyster is winking at you ;)
Don’t even reply because then you’ll get even more messages as your number has been confirmed to be legitimate
No worries there. I don’t plan to.
Edit: although I’m tempted to say, “did you mean my grandmother? Because she died in like 1993 and she didn’t have a cell phone and she wasn’t into yoga. She also didn’t go by that name.”
You should, it’s good for you
Stretching is good for you. Yoga is just ritualized stretching. I can stretch without the ritual.
I know I’m explaining the joke, but tbf yoga is a lot more about holding a stress position to gain strength than it is about stretching.
