Thread by @AnthonyLeeZhang

So I randomly got a text from an unknown number to join a whatsapp crypto trading group

The goal of the group seems to be to "analyze the BTC and ETH markets" jointly...? and make money?

I thought the group was about making money, but there is a bunch of weird talk about reincarnation

Reincarnation is apparently what you do when you lose money to make it back

Uh, DM me if you happen to want the whatsapp link. Hopefully sharing it won't prevent me from getting reincarnated

"My goodness, it's a loss. I can only use the reincarnation method to recover my funds." This is giving me poorly-written-videogame-NPC-speech vibes

I'm now trying to figure out whether I'm the only human in here. I asked "what is reincarnation" as a bait and got totally ignored

OK so they waited until I asked three times, before reaching out in a private message

Game's up, I think. Crypto is weird

(I just copypasted a pic from their chat group)

This is a hilariously elaborate scam though, all this fake activity/impression of people making tons of money. how do you even generate this many fake phone numbers and bot speech at scale

Alright, finally we have the "hey make an account on here give us your CC and we'll make you rich"

I think I figured it out. The big group chat stopped having any activity after a flurry of messages. It's just one guy with a manual bot and a script. Then they hook you in the private messages

So I figured out what the reincarnation method is. Utterly brilliant

(in case not entirely obvious I am trolling throughout this thread, do not actually join these groups, etc)