Oh Help Me Please ($$$): Flirty Nurse SMS Scam
From Textually:
"Nurse" bleeds lonely hearts with flirty SMS: A Chinese company has duped about 400,000 people by creating the character of a young female nurse to solicit text messages and collect revenue from lonely men, reports Reuters.
"The Beijing-based company employed a team of 12 or 13 people -- mostly men -- to act as "Wang Jing", a 22-year-old nurse who would invite mobile phone users to become her online boyfriend and to seek her out "whenever they felt lonely", the Beijing News said.
"Yang", who would receive up to 2,000 text messages from people all over China in a single shift, said the nurse scam had reaped hundreds of thousands of yuan a month, a Chinese newspaper reported.
... Text message scams and unsolicited spam flogging everything from real estate to weapons are common in China, where telecommunication service providers allow companies to bombard mobile phones for a cut of the profits."
Insight on "SMS Sex Chat" services in a Wired article posted yesterday: Backstage With a Text Actress
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