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Almost got Got [1]

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Date: 2025-07-22

So I was browsing the dog and art videos on Tic Tok when up in the corner I see Stephanie Rhule message block flash by. So of course I wonder what was that, have to go check it out. Sure enough there it is, a message from Stephanie Rhule! Hey I’m a fan boy of the first lady of economics and business on MSNBC and CNBC. So if she does lose a bet and has to don her old cheerleading outfit and flaunt her pom poms I could watch.

But hey I was got, there was the questions of where I was from to soften me up and create a comfort zone, and then the hook was thrown out there, had I heard of the collapse of the banking system? It was a good hook meant to introduce distrust of the banking system. You can look it up on the internet there have been three bank failures and there are quite a few more vulnerable to collapse. So the next question was had I heard of XLM and XRP? No I didn’t know anything about them. Well apparently they are crypto currencies. Crypto currencies were going to protect me from the banking collapse and make me rich. Crypto currencies to me were a way criminals and the top 10 percenters use to hide financial transactions like getting ransoms or moving money to off shore banks or other nefarious financial transactions. But reading up there are some legitimate uses for crypto currencies and you can make money by investing in them.

Then I got the offer to walk me through the steps to invest in these opportunities. First I had to get on Signal. Flag one. Now for me I really have no need for Signal, my text are to my wife and kid to ask where you are in the store or how are you doing? There is nothing of real value in my text so no need to encrypt a “how you doing” or “where are you”? There is no side piece I have to hide. No war plans I have to transmit. But I did it anyway, I installed Signal on my phone because “Stephanie” said so, and I figured it was something to protect her.

Once it was installed I let her know and gave her my number. So the call was made and to me and it came up as “Donald Trump”. Flag two. So suspicions were up but I asked about this using the Tic Tok app. The second notice using Signal came up as “Stephanie Rhule” but my spidey senses were tingling.

Flag three was instructing me to open an electronic wallet on my phone. If you use them fine but I never would. Phones get lost and cloned easily, I won’t put my financial accounts at that risk, mainly because I’m an old fart with one foot in the grave and the other kicking away the dirt so I don’t trip and fall in, and the other bad part is that the knees are gone too!

So I went back to the Tic Tok address and tried to look up the name. There were some legitimate addressees that did exist in Tic Tok and going down I found the one that had contacted me originally but looking at the name the spelling was Stephanie Rhuie but the “I” did look like a l in the listing.

So here is my analysis. Stephanie Rhule was not communicating with me. Yes, I know, Duh! If Stephanie Rhule was going to pass out detailed steps for economic opportunities, she would probably put it out in a podcast or some other form to reach a maximum number of people that would be more beneficial to her time management. She is on all these shows, and if she isn’t on camera she is doing research, so how is she going to take out time for an unknown individual? Of course, if she does speak I do listen, we all do when our heroes from on high reach down to speak to us, its just that these days it’s too easy for bad actors to hide behind the images of our heroes.

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