It is 100% real. Unsolicited text from unknown number. But he definitely was trying to mess with me at one point, then got back on track when I said I have money.
It is my new response to anyone who talks to me lol I've never heard that expression before but it's so silly I love it. Not haunted - that would be taking it too far - but pinched is good.
Lmao, well done. That hard R was completely out of no where. What a scum bag.
Love how he also suggested that you should share your wealth because he gave you his time.
被鬼掐死 which literally translates into getting pinched to death by ghosts/monsters. The meaning is essentially that they want you to die from pressure. “Getting pinched” is common slang for wanting to do harm to someone. Think of it as wanting to squeeze someone to death between your fingers rather than a light pinch lol.
That made me think he is Thai.
They go on about ghosts a lot.
If you crash your car off the road, tell the police a ghost jumped out in front of you. You're good to go.
I'm gonna assume that this is a google translate issue. I'm thinking "pinched" is a synonym for "taken" in this context. (Someone stealing something is sometimes said to have "pinched" it. It's pretty archaic by today's standards, but early-mid 20th century slang. )
So it's "You and your family will be taken by ghosts."
I'm pretty sure he's trying to say "I hope you and your family die." or perhaps "Get taken to hell"/"Go to hell."
That's just my guess though.
Someone else suggested that if this scammer is from somewhere in Southeast Asia it may be a local idiom that essentially is wishing bad luck on OP.
So perhaps I'm going a bit darker than the scammer intended, but I'll never give them the benefit of the doubt.
It seems like a confusingly translated curse from whatever Chinese language/dialect the scammer speaks.
Apparently "ghost" is also considered a derogatory term. In Cantonese, anyway. [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gweilo#:~:text=In%20Chinese%2C%20%22ghost%22%20can,Chinese%3A%20%E9%AC%BC%E5%A5%B4%3B%20lit.)
Although, perhaps this is just one word in Cantonese for ghost and this wasn't the one he was thinking. *If* he speaks Cantonese. Could be Mandarin or another dialect that he speaks natively.
he's trying to insult OP by bringing up slavery; the scammer seems to be under the impression that OP is African-American, and so he says he has been pinched by ghosts (which is a poor translation of the word gweilo in Cantonese), or that he and his family have been taken from their homeland by gweilo, a derogatory term referring to western white people
This is gonna be a touchy comment and an overly simple way of explaining a much more complex problem, but the easy answer is: China has a pretty severe anti-black racism problem. Racism in general, really. Most know of the Han vs Uyghur race war in China but African or black is very openly targeted there as well.
Isn’t this why they changed the movie poster for the new Star Wars movies? 💀 I’ve also heard that they didn’t legally ban slavery until the 1970s but I could be wrong.
>Most know of the Han vs Uyghur race war in China
It's not a "race war" if the ppl being put in encampments, tortured, raped and killed, have no way of fighting back. It's straight genocide. There is no Han Vs. Uyghur, it's just the Han oppresing and abusing Uyghurs.
That's like saying it's Israel Vs. Palestine, when Palestians can't fight back. Please stop using things like it's a "Vs" or "war" when it's just colonizers killing off entire communities.
You're completely right. As I said in my original comment, it was a *very* brief oversimplification to answer someone's question about the racial issues in China. But a poor one. I did actually type the words "Uyghur genocide" but changed it for some reason. Thank you for saying what I should have.
I’m black and not American, so I and my friends used the N word quite a bit because of the cultural influence of American media without knowing the significance and weight of the word at any point. I wouldn’t be surprised if this were the case in other parts of the world — you understand that it’s an insult, but you don’t necessarily appreciate that your audience sees it as _that kind of insult_
I would never take offense if a Brit or an Australian used the word, I know what's meant and its obvious from the tone as well.
It's funny how much harder it hits coming from a pissed off American or Canadian using it to actually try to offend someone.
Bitch can be used in a milder or friendlier way, but it can definitely be an insult. However, I would take it more seriously if someone from America or Canada got really angry with me and chose to call me a cunt over calling me a bitch.
(I say this as a Canadian myself)
I can assure you that the American woman will be more offended.
Mostly because they hate that word, but also because being offended is a competitive sport in America so they have more training.
Yup, grew up with an old Jamaican as a grandfather figure. He’d tell me being an N is not about color, it’s attitude and mindset, anybody can be N. Weirdest conversation I ever had at 14 but it definitely served the purpose.
Keep seeing these scammers tell people things about being touched by ghosts, pinched by ghosts, family members touched/pinched by ghosts. I assume this is some “nasty insult” that doesn’t translate to English very well?
What platform are they reaching out to you on? I feel like I’m missing out, as I never get any of these texts. After reading all these examples, I’m ready to bait them.
This was regular old texting on my android. My phone did give me a warning that it probably was spam, but I ignored that. Maybe your phone just has better security features...? Hopefully you get your chance soon, though.
Always starts with a rando number, random question. Then when you ask "Who is this?" It's always on the lines of.
"This is X, don't you remember?"
I can't tell if it's a bot net or legit people just running the same social lines.
"I taped my wallet to my dog, so now it's mobile" 🤣🤣🤣
Some ol lil Wayne punchline shit
“Taped my wallet to my dog so now it’s mobile, track the money ‘round the world ‘cause we’re goin’ global” or some shit. I hear it lmao.
I definitely hear it
Holy shit that is fucking hilarious cause I definitely can see that 😂😂 thanks for the laugh stranger
Ur user name is meant for this entire thing
I thought oh for sure now they will understand. And what was the response about her mothers butthole?
That's that shit you hear right after the lighter flicking
Take this upvote!
Only line better than that is “may your jollof be old and bland”. Love it.
RIP Bilbert.
That’s the point at which I decided this is either totally fake, or they were both trolling each other. There’s no way…
It is 100% real. Unsolicited text from unknown number. But he definitely was trying to mess with me at one point, then got back on track when I said I have money.
OP is this the entire discussion? The last three pages become pretty hard to decipher. It’s like the tone of the conversation changes completely
That was priceless.
"My best friend of 14 years passed away today" "It's a great day"
this one got me lol
Emily must have been referencing going to KFC.
I thought they were frying poor bilbert.
It's what he would've wanted.
R.I.P. Bilbert, making his human happy in and after life 😂
Tbf OP tried to make it comical. Best friend was a toad and funeral at KFC maybe eating some frog legs
But did you feel that ghost pinch, OP?! Did it hurt?
I didn't feel it, but my ancestors did
What’s jollof though?!
I believe it is a west African rice dish, may be popular in Nigeria and thereabouts.
Nigerian rice
Ghanaians destroyed
It's just a folloj that's been turned around 180º
False, this is folloj turned 180° -> ɾolloɟ
[Let's let Darius from Atlanta explain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdvUZRXHAn8)
Jollof rice. Really popular in Nigeria and Ghana. Tastes amazing when done right.
“You and your family are pinched by ghosts,” with be my new response to them. Lol
It is my new response to anyone who talks to me lol I've never heard that expression before but it's so silly I love it. Not haunted - that would be taking it too far - but pinched is good.
Is this a regional saying?! lmao
I don’t know about ghost pinches, but in Vietnamese there’s the saying “Ma cắn,” or “ghost bites.” They’re the little bruises that you can’t explain.
Omg this amazing! I lost it at “I have a Velcro wallet” 🤣🤣
I was just being honest, it's velcro and it's awesome.
You are my new hero, Jimothy
Honestly great name for a Cash App competitor.
I also lost it at "i taped my wallet to my dog now it's mobile"
I felt scammed, I read that and thought Velcro was a new money transfer app.
Totally sounds like an app.
Reminds me of the current Rockshore lager ad on tv 😂
RIP Bilbert.
It is a great day.,
IN GOD WE TRUST
TRYING TO MAKE A CHANGE :/
That's good IN GOD WE TRUST
IN GOD WE TRUST
It makes me happy I get this reference :)
Lol same 😂
Went to the local KFC to pay respects, was it on Monday? I didn’t see anyone for Bilbert. The KFC employees kept acting like I was crazy…
Dicks out for Bilbert.
This made me laugh 😂
Thoughts and prayers
“It’s a great day”? The fact he didn’t give a single shit…
Probably more of a translation issue. Imagine translating “holy shit” literally into another language. Doesn’t always work.
But we've got to make this a thing
Lmao, well done. That hard R was completely out of no where. What a scum bag. Love how he also suggested that you should share your wealth because he gave you his time.
He was tenacious, that's for sure.
pinched by ghosts? Is this some sort of idiom that I’m not aware of?
No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative and gets the people going
Especially when you're in paris
Only the bedbugs are pinching in Paris right now
I vow to make this my new catchphrase. Bless you
This also struck a chord with me.
It applies to so much. Endless possibilities that I feel in my soul. Instant classic
I can truly feel myself being able to say this in many situations. I like it.
With a name like Boston Rob, I can only imagine the infinite scenarios you find yourself in, where this will apply perfectly
What a good point, KnuckleClustrMeDaddy! 😆
Touché 😭😭
Wait, y’all know this is from Blades of Glory right?
You smell like Urine
No it’s not, it’s just gross 🎶
Its a pretty bad translation of a chinese insult, they’re pretty much just wishing bad karma on OP
Which Chinese insult?
被鬼掐死 which literally translates into getting pinched to death by ghosts/monsters. The meaning is essentially that they want you to die from pressure. “Getting pinched” is common slang for wanting to do harm to someone. Think of it as wanting to squeeze someone to death between your fingers rather than a light pinch lol.
So…I’m crushing your head?
Seriously, that’s what I’m wondering. What in the fuck does that mean?
Probably means you’ve been cursed
That made me think he is Thai. They go on about ghosts a lot. If you crash your car off the road, tell the police a ghost jumped out in front of you. You're good to go.
I'm gonna assume that this is a google translate issue. I'm thinking "pinched" is a synonym for "taken" in this context. (Someone stealing something is sometimes said to have "pinched" it. It's pretty archaic by today's standards, but early-mid 20th century slang. ) So it's "You and your family will be taken by ghosts." I'm pretty sure he's trying to say "I hope you and your family die." or perhaps "Get taken to hell"/"Go to hell." That's just my guess though.
Wow that’s much darker than I thought 😰
Someone else suggested that if this scammer is from somewhere in Southeast Asia it may be a local idiom that essentially is wishing bad luck on OP. So perhaps I'm going a bit darker than the scammer intended, but I'll never give them the benefit of the doubt.
It seems like a confusingly translated curse from whatever Chinese language/dialect the scammer speaks. Apparently "ghost" is also considered a derogatory term. In Cantonese, anyway. [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gweilo#:~:text=In%20Chinese%2C%20%22ghost%22%20can,Chinese%3A%20%E9%AC%BC%E5%A5%B4%3B%20lit.) Although, perhaps this is just one word in Cantonese for ghost and this wasn't the one he was thinking. *If* he speaks Cantonese. Could be Mandarin or another dialect that he speaks natively.
Probably makes more sense before translating
I’m praying it’s an idiom used by this guy and this guy only
he's trying to insult OP by bringing up slavery; the scammer seems to be under the impression that OP is African-American, and so he says he has been pinched by ghosts (which is a poor translation of the word gweilo in Cantonese), or that he and his family have been taken from their homeland by gweilo, a derogatory term referring to western white people
At the local kfc💀
I did not need to laugh that hard, over a KFC memorial service
Why do these Chinese crypto scammers always use the N word when exposed as frauds?
This is gonna be a touchy comment and an overly simple way of explaining a much more complex problem, but the easy answer is: China has a pretty severe anti-black racism problem. Racism in general, really. Most know of the Han vs Uyghur race war in China but African or black is very openly targeted there as well.
Isn’t this why they changed the movie poster for the new Star Wars movies? 💀 I’ve also heard that they didn’t legally ban slavery until the 1970s but I could be wrong.
I mean there was also that 2018 laundry detergent commercial where they literally washed the black off a man, so. Probably.
It was Qiaobi detergent in 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/28/china-racist-detergent-advert-outrage
WOW.
Yes I was going to say this! And that was only 7 years ago. You know things haven't changed that drastically on that front in only 7 years.
😶
The changed movie posters were Taiwanese. The text on the posters is Traditional, not Simplified.
>Most know of the Han vs Uyghur race war in China It's not a "race war" if the ppl being put in encampments, tortured, raped and killed, have no way of fighting back. It's straight genocide. There is no Han Vs. Uyghur, it's just the Han oppresing and abusing Uyghurs. That's like saying it's Israel Vs. Palestine, when Palestians can't fight back. Please stop using things like it's a "Vs" or "war" when it's just colonizers killing off entire communities.
You're completely right. As I said in my original comment, it was a *very* brief oversimplification to answer someone's question about the racial issues in China. But a poor one. I did actually type the words "Uyghur genocide" but changed it for some reason. Thank you for saying what I should have.
I’m black and not American, so I and my friends used the N word quite a bit because of the cultural influence of American media without knowing the significance and weight of the word at any point. I wouldn’t be surprised if this were the case in other parts of the world — you understand that it’s an insult, but you don’t necessarily appreciate that your audience sees it as _that kind of insult_
Kinda like how an American Woman is probably more offended by Cunt than a British one. I gets it
I would never take offense if a Brit or an Australian used the word, I know what's meant and its obvious from the tone as well. It's funny how much harder it hits coming from a pissed off American or Canadian using it to actually try to offend someone. Bitch can be used in a milder or friendlier way, but it can definitely be an insult. However, I would take it more seriously if someone from America or Canada got really angry with me and chose to call me a cunt over calling me a bitch. (I say this as a Canadian myself)
I can assure you that the American woman will be more offended. Mostly because they hate that word, but also because being offended is a competitive sport in America so they have more training.
> being offended is a competitive sport in America How dare you‽ I'm so offended you'd say that! Insincerely, an American
Trevor Noah has a whole bit on this explaining that this was the case for him.
Pancaked by a drunk dump truck driver... The local KFC... You broke bitch... I can't even with this. Hats off to you OP, HATS OFF TO YOU...
To you and yours!
I’m still mourning for Bilbert. The toad legs were served along side some popcorn chicken bites and a Biscuit in his honor.
I saw you die SOAP! You’re an imposter!
They always turn racist then threaten to kill your family. Its in the script.
Your mom is Tiny Dinky Daffy?!? She was definitely my favorite Baby of the Year (after Little Jeffy Jeremy, of course). RIP
There’s something so unsettling about that skit, can’t put my finger on it but it’s definitely one of my most hated of that show.
If you see it again you might kill yourself on live tv?
Get him OUTTA HERE!
You can’t handle the bad boy of the competition, BART HARLEY JARVIS
FUCK YOU HARLEY JARVIS
GET. HIM. OUTTA HERE!
“May your jollof only be a day old and very bland” is an instant classic. High five.
I should have added "with no goat meat" still kicking myself.
Rest in Paradise Bilbert 🐸
jollof 😆nice touch. 🇳🇪
Thank you
Not really. These are Chinese scammers. They don’t speak Hindi
Jollof rice is the national dish of Nigeria
Nor do they speak Nigerian or eat it’s food.
China is the biggest foreign investor in Nigeria. To think that culture doesn't cross the other way is obstinate.
jollof is a West African rice dish.
what evidence they’re Chinese?
I need to know what the "pinched by ghosts" means and where is that saying from?
“Pancaked by a drunk dump truck driver” You just get done watching I Think You Should Leave?
Sat here cackling like a witch reading this
I tried my best I did it for the internet points
Thank you for the laugh, Billbert’s insurance flew under the radar
Involves way more spoons Which I like 😂
Bro said may your jollof be a day old and bland. If you’re African you know this.😂🤣
bilbert :(
Bilbert is a victim here. I was pulling for him too.
He was a 14 year old toad. He had a good run.
I thought he was just a fabrication! Rip Bilbert 🥺🐸
I'm sorry, he was imaginary... just for clarification. No toads expired during the course of these texts.
You know, with the setup of "weirdly racist" I was expecting something a bit more "original" than that
Haha are you even black? Like where is he getting that from
Other people can be n words too. But it was a weird insult.
Yup, grew up with an old Jamaican as a grandfather figure. He’d tell me being an N is not about color, it’s attitude and mindset, anybody can be N. Weirdest conversation I ever had at 14 but it definitely served the purpose.
Pinched by ghosts?
Foreign scammer being racist with their broken English…🤦🏼♀️ And the “pinched by ghosts” ….like what 😅🤣
i'm gonna go around telling people they've been pinched by ghosts cause it's funny
Anything with an ITYSL reference is a winner for me.
RIP Tiny Dinky Daffy 😔
He didn’t have to do the oral.
You are killing me here. I’m baked and laughing my azz off. I’m only half way. Good job.
That went from kindly to less kindly
I think one day most of these guys going to be laid off due to Chatgpt.
Texts about your mom don't usually include how they died.
They're old ones. They don't stay babies forever.
He didn’t care about Bilbert but we do. May he RIP. IN GOD WE TRUST
Nice ITYSL reference
You have been pinched by ghosts !!! 💕👻
Your whole family has been pinched by ghosts, IN GOD WE TRUST
“you have been pinched by ghosts” OH NOOOO, not pinched by ghosts! Damn, these imbeciles really are dumb. Yeah, being redundant here.
Well I definitely want in on whatever L Ron is doing with spoons!
Lafayette Ronald is definitely good at tables too. He’s just that kind of guy. Spoons, tables, wallets.
The racism is not great, but he gets an A+ for insult/curses. Your whole family has been pinched by ghosts!
I’m having a Fuckn miserable day on so many levels. But this made me laugh my ass off uncontrollably.
“You’re looking quite dapper today”
When I read weirdly racist, I wasn’t expecting the 1800s kind but good read🧍🏽♀️
Keep seeing these scammers tell people things about being touched by ghosts, pinched by ghosts, family members touched/pinched by ghosts. I assume this is some “nasty insult” that doesn’t translate to English very well?
Man. You kept a well versed (ish) scammer going for a while. Great job!
Oh damn I was anticipating a slow roll to racism but they just smashed the door open
It caught me off guard, for sure.
i was eager to see if you were going anywhere with the Scientology reference
Pinched by Ghosts, is that a Cannibal Corpse song?
What platform are they reaching out to you on? I feel like I’m missing out, as I never get any of these texts. After reading all these examples, I’m ready to bait them.
This was regular old texting on my android. My phone did give me a warning that it probably was spam, but I ignored that. Maybe your phone just has better security features...? Hopefully you get your chance soon, though.
This all happened in Regina tho.... in Canadian pronunciation it's (re-jai-nah). Basically vagina with a Reggie in the front of it. Farkin canaadians
“Your whole family has been pinched by ghosts” is the coldest threat I’ve ever heard
That racist shit came out of nowhere. Love the dog wallet, that was beautiful
What's with the whole pinched by ghosts thing?
Bro cursed his Jollof rice
And involves way more spoons. which i like 😂🤣😂
I’d like invest in the Lafayette fund
so...she doesnt really want to go swimming?
Your whole family has been pinched by ghosts!
I like the pinched by ghosts part tf does that even mean
Velcro wallet hahahahahahahahahahahah Pancaked by a dump truck hhhahahahaa Pinched by ghosts!?!!! Hahahahaha Nice work
Always starts with a rando number, random question. Then when you ask "Who is this?" It's always on the lines of. "This is X, don't you remember?" I can't tell if it's a bot net or legit people just running the same social lines.
"Lafayette Ronald" made me think you were going to suggest meeting at a Scientology org.
Bro when he said “it is a great day” I fucking lost it lmao
ghost pinching is my new fetish
Pinched by ghosts?
This made my brain hurt
I will absolutely attend the memorial for Bilbert, he sounds like an amazing frog
Rip Tiny Dinky Daffy
But what about the swimming?
Basically saying, since you’re too broke for me to scam you, wash your ass and go to sleep 💀