Would you suspect SPAM?

[Ymichael14]

On a US swing site, a woman I emailed for the first time, responded in 5 minutes and said she never checks her messages and gave me her phone number.
Do any of you call when they give a phone number first, or do you suspect SPAM?
I tried looking up the number online, I got, it was SPAM, it was a landline,it was a cell, no SPAM complaints and it was somewhere in New York state, which includes New York city. That is like saying " somewhere in London".
Not much help .
I though of trying one of those services where you can text a cell from an email account.
So, what do all of you do?

 

[Pearls]

Never use the number and report the account. ??

 

[Ymichael14]

Never use the number and report the account.

thank you

 

[Pearls]

thank you

If you’re ever unsure of anything then feel free to drop me a message and if I can I’ll try to advise, I emphasis Try ?

 

[AlmeriaH]

These numbers are nearly always from scammers and usually have associated WhatsCrapp or similar accounts. My Internet access is via the mobile network, so of course it has a SIM card with a number associated with it. So I use WhatsCrapp web using this number and make contact. If it is a scammer I just play along, but it's really so obvious it's almost funny. I act daft (which is surprisingly easy for me) (OK, maybe it's not a surprise to you guys) and as though I don't know anything (that's pretty easy too, now I try to think about it).

I try to keep them busy for as long as I can, and I try to get them to ring me. They usually don't, but occasionally they try. Well, since a router is not a phone, if someone calls it, it doesn't ring. I try to get them to email me on a temporary email, and try to get as much information about them as I can.

Keep 'em busy, while the're wasting time on us, they're not scamming someone else. My record is two and a quarter hours. Can anyone beat that?

PS You can get temporary email from many sites such as ✉ SharkLasers.com It's useful if you want an article or a download, but you don't want the subsequent emails you get when they sell your email address to the world.

 

[Ymichael14]

These numbers are nearly always from scammers and usually have associated WhatsCrapp or similar accounts. My Internet access is via the mobile network, so of course it has a SIM card with a number associated with it. So I use WhatsCrapp web using this number and make contact. If it is a scammer I just play along, but it's really so obvious it's almost funny. I act daft (which is surprisingly easy for me) (OK, maybe it's not a surprise to you guys) and as though I don't know anything (that's pretty easy too, now I try to think about it).

I try to keep them busy for as long as I can, and I try to get them to ring me. They usually don't, but occasionally they try. Well, since a router is not a phone, if someone calls it, it doesn't ring. I try to get them to email me on a temporary email, and try to get as much information about them as I can.

Keep 'em busy, while the're wasting time on us, they're not scamming someone else. My record is two and a quarter hours. Can anyone beat that?

PS You can get temporary email from many sites such as ✉ SharkLasers.com It's useful if you want an article or a download, but you don't want the subsequent emails you get when they sell your email address to the world.

Thanks.
But my fear would be calling/ texting and then getting so much SPAM I couldn't use the phone. Get a message a minute.

 

[AlmeriaH]

Thanks.
But my fear would be calling/ texting and then getting so much SPAM I couldn't use the phone. Get a message a minute.

That's why I use the number of the SIM card in my router. It doesn't ring when it's called. The space available on a SIM card for text messages is only a few hundred characters, so by sending messages they are just wasting their time, which is what I want them to do. I don't even bother to delete them, I just let it fill up!

 

[Ymichael14]

That's why I use the number of the SIM card in my router. It doesn't ring when it's called. The space available on a SIM card for text messages is only a few hundred characters, so by sending messages they are just wasting their time, which is what I want them to do. I don't even bother to delete them, I just let it fill up!

I don't have a router.
Internet access is through my cell phone.
Data at home, WIFI when i am out.

 

[Ymichael14]

Update - her account has been deactivated .
Not by me, site probably caught her spamming .
I thought she might be real because she had the account for 5 years.
Probably hijacked somebody's account.
Thanks everyone.