Zero-sum game.

The moment Lauren* heard the voice on the other end of the phone, she knew exactly who it was. Corrupted thread makes scam more convincing Once they've sent an SMS under a phoney ID, scammers are then often assisted by the receiving phone's message app, which will usually merge texts coming from the same sender ID. Swayed by the text messages and under pressure from the voice on the phone to save her money by sending it to a new account, Lauren transferred just under $5000 out of her account, never to be seen again. [Extracted from the article]