This person friended me from an online game I played asking if I wanted to be paid to be a penpal. I’m familiar with a lot of phishing scams and other sorts of scams but I’ve never seen a scam like this one. What exactly is this person trying to get from me, are they hoping to infect my device with something sinister or are they trying to phish information from me without me knowing it? They seem to put a lotta emphasis on me VIEWING this photo they’re gonna send me and it makes me think that whatever they’re gonna send me must be infected with some sort of trojan. Can someone explain to me what’s going on here?

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    2 days ago

    I feel like🖕would’ve worked fine (assuming you don’t otherwise make rude gestures at your mom).

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      1 day ago

      If Family Fued had the question “Name 10 ways to get a smack in tbe back of the head from your mom”, I think “giving her the finger” might actually be the top answer.

      All your family would hear it, and say “Good answer, good answer!” And it’s absolutely on the board. Steve Harvey would then make an outragious claim that your mom is whoopin your ass after that.

      It’s like…Jeez, Steve! Calm down! It’s 1 slap! If your mom is realing for the cane, I think you might have just been raised in a toxic home. Which for him is absolutely true.

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        22 hours ago

        In your previous comment it sounded like you had discussed it beforehand, so your mom would’ve known the gesture wasn’t meant for her and thus wouldn’t smack you.

        LOL at the Family Feud extended metaphor, though!