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Casey Kelly's avatar

I cackled when the bot got those backup account numbers.

This was better than some crime dramas I watch online -- another reason it's such a brilliant marketing move. It's the kind of true story with a satisfying ending that people remember and share.

Donnie Boivin's avatar

Brilliant move and one of the best ways to market your business ive seen in a while.

Casandra Campbell's avatar

This is so awesome

Cindy Chance's avatar

Doing the thing you do to give to people you know need it is brilliant service marketing.

Nika Kotláriková's avatar

That guy was trying it with me as well.

But I have been on the internet for too long and experienced so many scams to spot it.

Nice try, Diddy. :D

Prof. Dr. Andreas Fuchs's avatar

Well done, Tom. Same thing happened with my account. Maybe thats what happens when you have beautiful Marketing Substacks

Benjamin Hies's avatar

GENIUS! This was so satisfying to read!

Giacomo Falcone's avatar

Cool story 😎

Scammers are everywhere!

Growth Scientist's avatar

Haha, I won’t lie, I was briefly excited when I saw the 'Tom's' DM 😂 Who wouldn’t be? But then reality kicked in pretty fast, and I had a good laugh 😅

kamesh's avatar

The irony of this comment section being filled with another bot impersonator 😂

TomDotCom's avatar

&&& great st0ry, by the way 👍

Carolyn Delacorte's avatar

Oh I got a few of those scam messages from "you" too - the ones I got wanted me to WhatsApp "you" ... I knew it wasn't you but couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Now I know :-)

Dead Hand Capital's avatar

That was a satisfying read.

rich graham's avatar

this was a good one!

isaac's avatar

Amazing

Good job