A would-be scammer appears to have bitten off greater than she may chew after contacting radio host Ben Fordham on WhatsApp.
On Thursday, the 2GB host revealed that he determined to play a trick on a scammer after receiving an out of the blue message from an individual calling themselves “Tina”.
Fordham revealed he thought he could have been “targeted by another scam” after receiving a WhatsApp message from a stranger claiming to be making an attempt to contact an Australian tour information.
“Hello is this Peter’s tour guide services? It’s me Tina, my friend gave me this number. I will be having a vacation in Australia,” the message learn, alongside a photograph of a younger lady.
“So I couldn’t help myself,” the radio host mentioned.
“I wrote back, “Yeah, good love. This is Pathetic Pete’s Aussie Outback tours. What part of the country do you want to see?”
The lady then wrote again claiming she had simply realised she was messaging the fallacious quantity earlier than apologising for being “clumsy”.
She then asks who she is talking with.
“You can call me whatever you want by most people call me Robbo,” Fordham responded.
“Don’t worry about the clumsy fingers love, I’ve only got 3 fingers on me right hand after getting chomped on by a kangaroo.
“It’s tough down here, Tina, so make sure you’ve got a good tour guide.”
When Tina requested the place the radio host was from, he claimed he was “from the bush” behind Bourke.
“It’s lovely here but too many flies!” he added.
The lady then requested for his age and requested if they might meet up for espresso if she got here to Bourke.
Fordham responded that he was in his 50s and “had a few marriages and there’s a few tin lids running around”.
He mentioned Bourke was a couple of hours away from Sydney and provided to have espresso together with her “anytime”, noting he preferred Nescafe and some TimTams.
The lady replied saying she “loves a roadtrip” and that she was sorry to listen to about his marriages.
“I’m 30 and happily single, age is just a number though,” she replied.
The radio host then tells her to let him know when she is in Australia and he’ll cook dinner her a BBQ and “do some laps around Bourke in the ute”.
However, Tina needed to maintain the dialog going, asking ‘Robbo’ what he does for a residing.
“Now at this point I should have given up,” Fordham mentioned, including that he had learn the messages out to his spouse Jodi.
“She kind of looks at me thinking why do you waste your time, but I heard someone say once that if you are wasting the time of a scammer they don’t have as much time to scam someone else,” he mentioned.
So the radio host determined to maintain the joke going, telling Tina that he retired after having some “luck at the races one day”.
He added: “I also collect the ‘rock n roll’ from Centrelink but lets keep that between us.”
The scammer then responded that it might be “our little secret” earlier than asking to proceed their “cute convo” on her private cellphone as she was utilizing her firm quantity.
She then tried to name Fordham 3 times and left him a voice message, which is when he determined to chop the dialog off.
“So I then said we’ll have to chat later, Tina, I’m heading out to dinner. I’m going down to the bowlo to murder a steak and chips,” Fordam mentioned.
“And then she’s then been messaging me since to say ‘Robbo, are you still there’. So anyway, I’ve got a feeling that Tina and I won’t be taking a road trip out back of Bourke.”
Originally printed as Ben Fordham reveals weird texts to would-be scammer
