Just depends on how it hits. I got a random message like

“It was great seeing you Sally, we should catch up like that more often.”

My name isn’t Sally. But my mom’s is. And my mom is at an age where sometimes I get a TXT via email, if you get me. And she complains about her friend not understanding tech…And this friend was visiting from out of town for the first time in years, one who I had told mom to give my number too in case they needed assistance while visiting.

So I said “Hey, Maureen, this is Sue, you must have pressed the wrong button. I’m sure Mom agrees! How was the restaurant? I’ve been meaning to try it.”

Now… That was not smart. I gave actually checks and changes real name to Sue my real name, my mom’s and a well known restaurant name. If the scammer had have been smart, there’s a million things they could have done with that to trick me, either immediately or by waiting awhile and then acting.

But they were on their pig butchering script, so their next TXT was clunky, and was like “oh! No this is Ally, I must have gotten the wrong number! Silly me.”

And I was like. “Oh ok. No problem, glad you got to catch up with your friend then!”

And then like 2 hours later they txtd “is that restaurant in city? I’ve always wanted to visit.”

And I didn’t reply.

And the next was a hilarious cut and paste from the wiki of the city like “it has 1.9 million people and an economy of 59million annually! How cool!” Do you live there?"

By then I had figured it out.

But they do this all the time, there are alot of them, and it doesn’t take much luck for your guard to go down…