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March 21, 2026

  1. david

    Could You Tell Me Your Name?

    Single SMS from an unknown 937 area-code number asking 'Hi could you tell me your name? I have your number saved in my phone but no name' — a name-fishing pretext.

    A hop-seeding opener using a name-fishing pretext — the sender claims to have my number saved without a name attached, inviting me to identify myself.

    A line from an unknown 937 area-code number: "Hi could you tell me your name? I have your number saved in my phone but no name." The cover is name-fishing — the implication is the sender already knows me, just lost the name, and the friendly path forward is to volunteer it. The reply this opener is fishing for is my actual name, which would be a richer metadata edge than the bare contact graph itself.

    I did not reply.

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