Long Scams...
By DE
@DaddyEvil (159543)
United States
September 13, 2025 6:26pm CST
For the last year or more, some girl has been sending me texts, talking to me and asking questions... I don't know her so keep telling her I don't know who she is... She told me she's my niece but I don't have a niece, as far as I know, with her name.
I called a niece who knows our family better than I do and asked about this girl and she doesn't know the name, either.
I just got a phone call from a bail bondsman saying the girl has been arrested and is hoping I'll sign for the bond to get her out of jail... I told the guy I have no idea who she is. He asked if I could suggest someone else who would sign for her... I asked how I could suggest someone when I don't know who the girl is?
He hung up.
Weird!
Have you ever had something like that happen?
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14 responses
@Soobinah (168)
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10h
Haven't experience that kind of message but if i were you, I will not respond to her message. I would first ask my family members if they knew her. if not I'll block her.
I also experienced receiving scam message, that my son had an accident and he's in the hospital. the sender asked me to transfer money but i just laughed because I'm single and do not have a child 
I do recently receiving so many messages from different numbers that i won in a lottery or that i gained interest from a site. I just block them. But its really annoying how they get my number.
I do recently receiving so many messages from different numbers that i won in a lottery or that i gained interest from a site. I just block them. But its really annoying how they get my number.2 people like this
@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
10h
I did ask my family and nobody knows her. I have no idea how she got my name and number.
I would block those kind of messages, too. If she hadn't tried to get my signature, I would have let her keep talking to me.
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@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
10h
@Soobinah Here, the bondsman put up the money but somebody else has to sign that they'll pay the bond if the girl doesn't show up in court.
Yes, I think they're both scammers now.
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@Soobinah (168)
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10h
@DaddyEvil she's asking for your signature
That so creepy and so scary! but i find it funny for a bonds man to ask you if you knew someone you could suggest a person who knows that person. also here in the Philippines, a bail bondsman, is a person or company that acts as a surety, guaranteeing a court-set bail amount for a defendant. He will be the one who will sign and not other people. I think the girl who introduced you as your niece and the bondsman are both scammers
That so creepy and so scary! but i find it funny for a bonds man to ask you if you knew someone you could suggest a person who knows that person. also here in the Philippines, a bail bondsman, is a person or company that acts as a surety, guaranteeing a court-set bail amount for a defendant. He will be the one who will sign and not other people. I think the girl who introduced you as your niece and the bondsman are both scammers
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@LadyDuck (483350)
• Italy
Just now
@DaddyEvil - Hard to know how she could know your name, but in our days this is not really difficult to find out. She would have given more details if she really was your niece.
@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
Just now
I thought so, too. I only texted with her because she called me Uncle Robb the first time she sent a text to me. That's the reason I asked my niece if we knew her. I asked the girl who her mom was, thinking one of the kids was calling themselves by a different name but my niece didn't know the mother's name, either.
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@mayka123 (17062)
• India
4h
That really does sound weird, almost like some kind of scam. You did the right thing by not getting involved, especially when you don’t even know who she is. It’s strange how persistent she’s been with the texts, though. I’ve had spam calls and messages before, but nothing quite like that where they claim to be family. Good thing you double-checked with your actual relatives. Hopefully that’s the end of it now.
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@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
1h
I hope I don't hear from her again now... When I told Pretty about the bail bondsman wanting me to sign for the loan, she said she'd wondered how long before the girl asked me for money.
I wouldn't sign for a bondsman to get real family out of jail, let along someone I'd never met before.
@allknowing (153479)
• India
8h
Thankfully you got out of it before getting involved without your knowledge. These scams are annoying I never entertain chats with strangers At the first instance itself I block that ID
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@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
57m
I get texts all the time that say, "Hello, how are you today?" I block them. I don't like games like that.
The only reason I actually chatted with that girl was because she called me "Uncle Robb" in her texts which is what real family would call me.
The first time she texted me, she ask if I could go with her to look at a car and claimed it was just down the street from my house. If she was real family, she would have stopped at our house and asked me to go with her to look at a car... I was having trouble seeing that day so told her I wouldn't be any help looking at anything. I could only read the text by holding my phone right against my face to see to read it. (I usually ask Pretty to read texts when my eyes are swelled up.)
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@id_peace (16652)
• Singapore
3h
I have someone who called my mobile and told me "Guess who I am?" I was like "Who" "Guess who I am? You cannot recongnise me?" Generally I cannot hear people well when they are talking on the phone, plus I was at work and cannot think.
So after a few "Guess who I am" and "who"
The guy decided to hang up.
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@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
1h
I don't like guessing games. If the person wanted to talk to you, they would have laughed and told you who they were. I would have hung up the second time they said to guess who they were. I would agree I didn't know their voice and hang up.
I only talked with her over texts because she kept calling me Uncle Robb, which is my real name. I kept telling her I didn't know who she was.
@LindaOHio (200589)
• United States
1h
I've never had anything like that happen. Yours was a very serious scam.
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@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
1h
It seemed strange. Why call me to sign for a bond. Why not call her parents?
@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
10h
I don't understand why she chose me. It's creepy... I guess I should block her but that wouldn't stop her from giving out my name and number.
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@BarBaraPrz (50338)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
9h
Uh, no, I haven't. In fact, my nieces never phone me, don't email me, or even visit me. Same goes for my nephews... except one has visited me when I first moved to Hamilton and occassionally answers my facebook posts.
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@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
9h
I rarely talk with any of my family... One brother will call and ask how we're doing and if he can do anything to help us... We each call the other on our respective birthdays, wishing happy birthday. Once in a great while, I'll drive over to his house and visit for an hour or so before going home again. (He's the one who takes Pretty grocery shopping when I can't see to drive.)
@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
56m
That's what I think now, too. I usually just delete texts from her but will block her if I get any more from her.
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@xFiacre (14334)
• Ireland
10h
@daddyevil Whoever she is she is definitely bad news.
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@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
10h
I agree... Last fall she wanted me to go to a small town here and buy a house trailer and told me a silly low price... I told her I didn't have any money. She's always wanting me to do something... I keep refusing.
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@Marilynda1225 (86184)
• United States
9h
That really does sound like a scam Good thing you didn't give any bail money. Sounds like trouble even if she is your niece
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@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
9h
I just wish I knew who she was... It annoys me when someone calls me by name but I don't know them.
@sallypup (65998)
• Centralia, Washington
8h
My husband got a scam email that claimed to be one of the elderly church folks. Supposedly the person's niece had gotten into some kind of accident and for some reason couldn't use Paypal. Could we help and send money via Paypal for them?? Hubby being hubby got super worried though I told him it sounded bogus. He called the people before he did anything stupid and yup!! Bogus.
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@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
50m
I'm wondering now if the house trailer she wanted me to buy from a "friend" was her trying to scam money out of me, too. I told her then that I didn't have the money to buy anything. She kept asking me to go look at cars with her... I kept telling her I didn't know her so couldn't go. Family that is persistent would have stopped by our house and tried to talk me into doing something. Pretty and I kept thinking it was odd that she'd ask me to do things like that after I said I didn't know her.
The only reason I kept texting with her was because she called me "Uncle Robb" which is what real family calls me. I don't know how she got my name or phone number.
@DaddyEvil (159543)
• United States
48m
I have no idea. The only reason I texted with her was because she calls me Uncle Robb in her text messages, which is what family call me.
I'll be blocking her number if she texts me again.
