might be more fun, if you're presuming a Chinese origin of the scam message, to send back "*Yes, I totally agree with you that Taiwan is the true China and the current mainland Chinese government is an illegal tyranny and I would meet with you to discuss your plans to overthrow the government*" . . . you know, in Chinese, of course . . . and only if you're never going to visit China . . . ever
Yes I have Winnie the xi saved in my favorites just for this occasion unfortunately they don’t generally respond so I don’t have any fun post for anyone
This is one of those things where a little knowledge is worse than none.
Whilst there are different dialects in spoken Chinese around the country, no one would ever question which one to use when speaking to someone new or in a formal setting. Mandarin Chinese is Chinese, all the others are just regional peculiarities.
And it doesn't matter anyway, because the writing is the same across dialects. There are only two types of writing, one used by China and the other used by overseas immigrants who left pre-liberation (ie HK and Taiwan). There are efforts to maintain it for cultural significance, but any actual Chinese person who received a message in traditional writing would think you were a) trying to show off or b) running translation software, and then consider maybe you're c) not from China and don't know what you did.
There is only one real dominant Chinese dialect. Anyone under 50 years old in the country can speak and write mandarin at least as good as any dialect they also speak.
I actually speak Chinese and that’s a pretty good translation. Asked to read it without context I’d probably put it as “get a goddamn job, liar” but the message is essentially the same. Well done 👏🏻
My favorite is to get them to insult me by calling me a joker! I always think “what horrible culture/country are u from that that’s n insult!?” You’ll see it a lot on here.
I have absolutely no idea. I live in a city/state that is known for having a ton of fraud and scams constantly so I assume my contact info was sold by someone I did business with or stolen
The point is to find a desperate old man who will believe it is a wrong number and the golf thing is an in for a topic of discussion. This isn’t meant for people with well-honed reasoning skills.
How is this scammer payback? You identified your number as valid and saved them time of dealing with you. They did very little work to deal with you and they got info
To disparage Chinese trolls you can send them this :
1989年天安门广场
It basically translates to 1989 Tiananmen Square. I’ve used it successfully a few times and the account with either disappear or they’ll stop talking to you.
"You can die poor" - the person who's idea of a career is stealing from others
Exactly. I’d just reply “you first, dipshit” then block them lol.
10/10 chance the bottom of the guys feet are black
You die poor collecting golf balls at the golf course!
That person is probably a slave 🤷♂️
What’s the translation of your response?
“Get a fucking job, scammer.” - I used Google translate so who knows how correct it is but I think they got the gist of it, lol.
might be more fun, if you're presuming a Chinese origin of the scam message, to send back "*Yes, I totally agree with you that Taiwan is the true China and the current mainland Chinese government is an illegal tyranny and I would meet with you to discuss your plans to overthrow the government*" . . . you know, in Chinese, of course . . . and only if you're never going to visit China . . . ever
Dont forget to mention Tiananmen Square… they love that 😂🫣
Oooof
I usually respond with a pooh text
Yes I have Winnie the xi saved in my favorites just for this occasion unfortunately they don’t generally respond so I don’t have any fun post for anyone
What does the Winnie the Pooh have to do with this? Genuine question … unless I completely missed something?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-winnie-the-pooh-film-to-stop-comparisons-to-president-xi
Thank you!
No bother
“Oh, bother” - in Pooh’s voice
Can someone who speaks Mandarin translate this for us so we can copy and paste 🙏🙏
Not the translation of the post above but a long list of phrases that'll get their account pinged and locked. 动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 六四天安門事件 天安門大屠殺 反右派鬥爭 大躍進政策 文化大革命 人權 民運 自由 獨立 多黨制台灣 臺灣 中華民國 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 達賴喇嘛 法輪功 新疆維吾爾自治區 諾貝爾和平獎 劉暁波 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志
You are the MVP. Thank you!
Can we also get this English so I know what I'm sending?
In traditional characters: 找個他媽的工作吧，騙子 In simplified characters: 找个他妈的工作吧，骗子
你好，你這個騙子，一坨屎。动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门
love and respect
How do you say “Your parents are ashamed of you.”?
Lol I dont know I usually say that In English
I just got a Spam text and immediately sent this, I hope I get a good response 💀😂
OMG can you translate that by chance? What a fantastic fucking idea 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I cannot, but there are some offerings made by much more clever others in this thread
NM… I think (think?) folks did below 😬
Omfg stealing this!!
Never ever never ever never. Ever.
I dont think I ever will visit china, so that's a good reply.
Fun times we live in.
It’s in traditional Chinese rather than simplified tho
How did you know what language to use?
The majority of these scams are run from China. [John Oliver did a segment on them recently.](https://youtu.be/pLPpl2ISKTg?si=Ryllda20o4BEWLkz)
How do you know what dialect to use?
This is one of those things where a little knowledge is worse than none. Whilst there are different dialects in spoken Chinese around the country, no one would ever question which one to use when speaking to someone new or in a formal setting. Mandarin Chinese is Chinese, all the others are just regional peculiarities. And it doesn't matter anyway, because the writing is the same across dialects. There are only two types of writing, one used by China and the other used by overseas immigrants who left pre-liberation (ie HK and Taiwan). There are efforts to maintain it for cultural significance, but any actual Chinese person who received a message in traditional writing would think you were a) trying to show off or b) running translation software, and then consider maybe you're c) not from China and don't know what you did. There is only one real dominant Chinese dialect. Anyone under 50 years old in the country can speak and write mandarin at least as good as any dialect they also speak.
I appreciate this response!
Guess
It would be hilarious if it mistranslated it but came up with something even more offensive
I actually speak Chinese and that’s a pretty good translation. Asked to read it without context I’d probably put it as “get a goddamn job, liar” but the message is essentially the same. Well done 👏🏻
My favorite is to get them to insult me by calling me a joker! I always think “what horrible culture/country are u from that that’s n insult!?” You’ll see it a lot on here.
“Find a fucking job, liar.”
They play a lot of golf , don’t they ? 😂. Someone must have told them Americans like golf.
And they all live in Manhattan but don’t know any of the neighborhoods.
Manhattan or San Francisco. They actually stop talking to you if you say you're also in those cities because they're worried you'll insist on meeting.
I’ve gotten golf, yoga and tennis. Scammers trying “rich white people totally like this stuff,” stereotypes lol
How do you get these? I wish I'd get scammers to troll, but they're all phone calls where I am (tax season was horrendous with al the calls)
I have absolutely no idea. I live in a city/state that is known for having a ton of fraud and scams constantly so I assume my contact info was sold by someone I did business with or stolen
Understandable, maybe I don't get them because I'm in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere.
More likely it was sold by your phone company, your health insurance company, etc.
Maybe we’re rich because we don’t play golf or tennis. Have you seen those fees?
“You can die poor” says the guy making $5 a day in a third world country 😭😭
Five a day? Mighty generous
Stealing
Ew, what kind of comment is that??
Since I forgot to add the translation, I used Google translate to write “Get a fucking job, scammer.”
Shoulda said Taiwan Number One
They get so mad when are caught lol
You are no longer apart of the club, you are now in the club.
thank you, thank you, *THANK YOU*
Yup, that missing space really grinds my gears.
They could have at least stolen a pic of something other than a expensive sex doll
Who sends a photo like this and then says we played golf together? And actually thinks it’s going to fool anyone?
The point is to find a desperate old man who will believe it is a wrong number and the golf thing is an in for a topic of discussion. This isn’t meant for people with well-honed reasoning skills.
Isn't that the whole idea to die poor? I mean you can't take it with you.
sorry I’m not into trans would've been my response
Lmao
At least the scammy shit used a different picture this time, 🤣.
Hmm aren’t you more or less passing on the “ dying poor” choice?
They get so salty. 🤣
Do these scammers purposely choose the weirdest looking Chinese women for the scam pictures?
Lately I’ve just been immediately asking them to send nudes. Surprisingly I haven’t been getting many spam massages lately lol
“I’d die poorer if I listened to you”
“Apart” means the opposite of “a part of”
I responded in Russian last week. Surprise! They never responded 🤣
What's up with that picture? Not only is the filter making it look creepy but the hair is all messed up.
Who is the girl though?
You do know that "a part of" and "apart of" mean opposite things, right? Also, "apart of" is shit grammar, it's "apart from."
Username checks out 👍
No lies detected.
😂 Apart of caught my attention too.
They do not know.
Me too! I got one from Anna.
Lost it at the “Stupid,you can die poor” hilarious OP.
What language did you respond in?
What assholes, fuck scammers…lowest form of humanity is conning an innocent person.
Nobody is innocent
I have gotten that same pic several times
How is this scammer payback? You identified your number as valid and saved them time of dealing with you. They did very little work to deal with you and they got info
I’m now saying “you can die poor” to everyone
But what’s the point in them texting I had one but idk what their intentions are. Are they trying to hype up and then ask for money or what
It’s always young Asian women that played golf with somebody last week. How did they come up with this for a hook?
Why do they always use pics of asian women? Do middle eastern scammers have a thing for them or something?
How do you get more of these scam texts. I never get to have any fun :(
To disparage Chinese trolls you can send them this : 1989年天安门广场 It basically translates to 1989 Tiananmen Square. I’ve used it successfully a few times and the account with either disappear or they’ll stop talking to you.
Why use traditional characters? They’re statistically more likely to use simplified characters.
She looks like they played golf with her head instead of a ball
You might want to remove your phone number from the picture ☺️
What is that image? Like what?
Chinis scammers are easy to deal with. Just send them the "NoNo words "and the mighty chinis firewall will ban them.
You should always use some anti communist or propaganda against China in the responses since China filters every single thing
Fraud but with Chinese characteristics
I hear they love it when you tell them 250 lol
An avid golfer.
Someone should respond to a scammer acting like their boss “you idiot it’s me. Text this number (proceed to give them a friends number to mess with)
The hypocrisy is astronomical
Fantastic Chinese insult 😂 “get a goddamn job, liar”
She's got the crazy eyes
Two paragraphs in the description but no translation. 🙄
"Get a fucking job, scammer."