I just got to spent fifteen minutes entertaining my office getting a phone scammer to ask me to be his girlfriend when I threatened to report him to the cops.

@literorrery There was clearly an event that happened here but I think some of the details may have gotten mangled by translation to text?

@mawr A phone scammer claiming to be from the US Government offering 9000-dollar grants called me. His phone number's 7026590086. I called him a scammer and got him tangled up in questions, until he said, "yeah, I make $400/day scamming people and I can't find another job." Then we talked about ethics and I told him I was reporting him. That's when he asked me to be his girlfriend and insisted that he loved me.

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