Right around Christmas time, I went through an experience that was totally new to me on my phone.

I started getting spam text messages.

It caught me so off guard. I get so many spam phone calls these days, to the point where if a number I don’t recognize calls, I let it go to voicemail. Then I google the number. And if it comes up on a site where people can leave comments saying they’ve gotten calls from that number that were scams, I block the phone number so it can’t call me again.

Trust me – if it’s a number from an actual real person, like a potential web design client, I always call back.

But I had never dealt with spam text messages before! Here’s what he sent me:

It felt like Christmas – I didn’t even have to check my email for a scammer to mess with. Here was an opportunity to mess with someone right there in text message form in the palm of my hand.

My whole goal was to just inundate this guy with ridiculousness, to see if I could get him to respond. I started with helpful information for his glasses shopping adventure.

I followed that up with some tips on what styles of sunglasses I tend to gravitate towards.

Along with some encouragement that I wouldn’t spoil his Christmas shopping efforts.

And then I got a little greedy. Because come on, it’s a sale. And we all know how much I like a good pair of glasses.

I ended my reply to this spammer with a little dig about him being cheap.

I thought I was done with spam text messages, but then later THE SAME DAY I got another one. I can only hope that my sunglasses guy was so annoyed with my replies that he passed me on to another scammer to see if I’d fall for any other spam text messages.

Or maybe my replies cracked him up so much he passed my number on to his friends so they could get messed with, too. The world’s a mysterious place.

At this point, I think I got bored. Sometimes it gets lonely bombarding scammers with replies and never hearing anything back from them. They make me feel like a jilted high school girl waiting by the phone on prom night.

Jerks.

Have you gotten any spam text messages yet?

What were they trying to sell you? Did you respond?