the elaborate handbooks and detailed scripts, the pig-butchering scams that emerge out of wrong-number texts aren’t the product of individual con artists or even of small informal groups. Rather, as has now been pretty extensively documented in the Asian press, they’re a key revenue stream of large hierarchical organizations — fraud businesses, basically — based in Southeast Asia.
Worse, the “dog-pushers” — the lowest-level scammers who initiate conversations with victims — are often workers from around the region, tricked into indentured servitude, held captive in dormitories and offices, and beaten by the managers and bosses. - What’s the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts? / HN

So, to answer our question: What’s the deal with the weird wrong-number texts? These texts are usually the lead-in to romance scams that usually end with fake crypto deposits, written so as to imply wealth and success on the part of the scammer, who is often an abused and captive worker operating multiple phones and attempting to con several people from a compound operated by shady gambling rings somewhere in Southeast Asia.

see also

• The Fraud Supply Chain / HN
• The Rise of User-Hostile Software (2021)
• Générateur de Mouvement Perpétuel : COMMENT ÇA MARCHE ? - the business here is to generate money from “perpetual view” on this topic - and the building of fraudulent / deceptive mechanism (battery included).