The Last Number Exchange

Spam is an evil thing as evidenced by the drag it places on our digital lives as well as the genuine bad intentions behind most of it.

I received this text spam a week or two ago. Its crafty. I can well imagine many people being fooled into responding: perhaps to tell them that they have the wrong number; perhaps because they are genuinely confused about which contact of theirs is reaching out to them.

But my first thought was: this text could spell a lot of danger for many a relationship. How many jealous ‘significant others’ see a message like this pop up on their partner’s phone and immediately go ape-shit? Of course, such a knee-jerk response should be telling of the nature of the relationship in the first place, but a text like this could be gasoline on a match.

I have every expectation that the dawning AI revolution while make this look like child’s play.