Has anyone heard of the Momo thing that's gone viral? It seems that there's no limit to stupidity now days. People actually think this is some paranormal entity when in al truth it's a group of hackers spoofing numbers. The moment you text or call one of the listed numbers they hack your device, that's how the personal details it reveals to you are found out.

Do not message or call!

I got a call a few days ago from " the Department of Treasury".. some Indian accent guy.

Seems The Treasury Department wanted to give ME $7,000, seems they " picked me out of a lottery they hold every year"..............

I told him I am honored and to please make a donation in my name for the amount to save the whales.

Then I heard the ..... click

At the new house, it was cheaper to get the "Triple Play", so I have VoIP her, and even phones hooked up to the VoIP, but I don't give out the phone number (I would actually have to look up the number if I wanted it!)... I mean, if you are someone I want to talk to, you probably have my cell #.

However, the home phone rings all day. I sit and laugh when it rings, wanting to pick it up and just scream "Outgoing calls ONLY on this line, ___hole!"

But life is much better now that I no longer deal with the "Rachel from Cardholder Services", phony charity calls, and political polling

It's not the same. They are not trying to scam anyone they are trying to get people to kill themselves.

WOW !!

How would. They do that ?

https://www.thesun.ie/news/2997071/momo-suicide-game-now-targeting-kids-via-minecraft-and-youtube-us-cop-warns-after-it-was-linked-to-death-of-12-year-old-girl-in-argentina/

They hack your phone or device look through your texts and pictures and they bother you non stop sending you pictures of murder scenes and they get more and more graphic and they bother you to the point where you kill yourself while they record it on your device. So far a 12 year old little girl killed herself and theres one other death related to this. A lot of the schools are taking action.

Because this is done through the Dark Web and Whats App on your phone it's impossible to trace since they use spoofing programs to hid the real numbers they use. I know Law Enforcement has been able to track it to South America and Japan but other then that they haven't made much progress.

This is Horrible and Sad. Why can't the number just be blocked the first time it contacts a student ?

Are the young people just indulging in watching these kind of things !!

How would thy get anyone to kill themselves. Maybe a few call from the IRS could do it.. but the Treasury dept.?

A friend of mine has a app on his phone of a person with a horrendous non stop cough and he can play it when he picks up calls that he knows are robo calls.
It is actually hilarious, as these salespeople on the other side of the phone try to talk a person going thru a sever coughing spell into buying something.

Because there are \spoofing programs and the hackers use them to contact you if you block the first number. I have the spoofing app and I can make it look like I am calling from any number I want, you just type in the number you want it to look like your texting or calling from.....

I dunno, the video of the little girl killing herself is on YouTube and its really sad, REALLY SAD.

“In social networks, the image of a terrifying woman is circulating,” add investigators, in a statement. “They call her ‘Momo’ and she invites those who see her to write to her through WhatsApp.”

"Momo" threatens to appear in the night or lay a curse on the users if they do not respond, according to Mexican police. Criminals can use the “game” to steal personal information or even incite users to commit suicide or violence, investigators add.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/08/02/sinister-momo-suicide-challenge-sparks-fear-as-it-spreads-on-whatsapp.html

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5817126208001/?#sp=show-clips

Boothworld Industries seems pretty cool though. That's not hackers...….

Sounds a bit like the " slender man" situation where a few young girls thought this " slender man from the web" was real. And they thought he told them to kill other girl. They stabbed that young girl like 20 times, left her for dead. Somehow she survived.

During the court proceeding the two attackers swore " slender man" was real

In todays day and age you really don't know who these kids are talking to on the web.. or who is trying to reach them on their phones.

Of course Hollywood ( that has no sense other then $$$$ ) just made a movie about it. The movie will not be shown in Milwaukee ( where this happened) as the people there were outraged that a movie was made at all.

scary stuff.

just what we need....

ANOTHER bats**t crazy conspiracy theory.


I guess 'slender man',and 'the illuminati' must be starting to lose its luster,huh?

Well, I wish Slender man would loose it luster and go away before someone else gets hurt. But being that a movie was just made about it, would seem to mean it still has " luster"

But even if it does go away it will be replaced by something else.

The internet is fantastic.... and horrible ... at the same time.

well,like the old saying goes...

"for every credibility gap,there is a gullibility fill!"