I don’t understand—you have blocked the numbers, but you still get calls and messages from those numbers? Or is a fresh new number being generated/spoofed every time?
She got the towel image right after she blocked the first number so maybe the block isn’t instant. I don’t know. She hasn’t received anything else from the second number.
Maybe it’s a genuine wrong number? I used to get wrong number texts fairly often from one specific number-- one text asked me to help pay bail money for someone who’s name I did not recognize, and the person sent an angry text when I didn’t reply. I think I finally did reply saying wrong number, but still, for a few years afterward I’d occasionally get random texts, often with pics of babies and pets, stuff you might group-text to a family.
Two porn requests on the same day from 2 different numbers seems like more than an innocent wrong number. It could be a coincidence but it would be an awfully big one.
I see three possibilities-
#1 some one deliberately and maliciously used your wife’s number in a personal ad in order to get people to harrass her.
#2 Some one used a phone number that just happens to be a digit off from your wife’s. The messages are meant for somebody else and it’s a coincidence.
#3 Your wife has started an interesting side business and failed to tell you first. I consider this highly unlikely.
This happens easily. My work number is one digit different from the animal shelter/animal control and a different digit different from the PD non-emergency number. Every once in awhile, someone associated with the animal shelter makes a mistake and prints my number on contact flyers. Then I get a bunch of wrong numbers.
“Are you sure it’s a wrong number? It’s even laminated!”
- Number was skimmed from a list or database, not targeted specifically.
I’ve gotten unsolicited unknown senders of nasty group texts with 20+ associated ph#’s. I’d block the originals and emails if associated with it. Seems to have stopped at least for now.
Given how closely the 2 different numbers contacted her, I’m guessing that it’s a combination of 1 and 2. Someone placed an ad with the wrong number.
I’m 100% not concerned about option 3.
I can see why. It’s just phone sex, and the money is good. I’m trying to convince my wife to give it a try. Work at home, set your own hours, there’s no real down side I can think of.
Maybe your wife’s name is Peggy and this is all a funny misunderstanding?
Just ask for consent before eavesdropping.
We had a phone sex worker on the Dope before. IIRC Norinew was her name. She’s since gone to the Great Dopefest In The Sky.
Does doing a google reverse image search of the picture she was sent produce any results?
I’ll have to try that when I get home but 
I really hate to see what kind of site it might link to.
Are you recently married?
Could an angry ex-boyfriend be harassing her?
Nope. We’ve been married for 37 years. If it’s an old boyfriend, he’s carrying a mean grudge.
Is your wife on Facebook? Lots of scammers pick willy-nilly on there. Some peoples messaging thing will go directly to their phone number.
I don’t know much about Facebook, it could be changed now. I’m sure there’s a way to block your contact information.
She’s on it but not very active. Her contact info isn’t listed. When I message her, it goes to her Messaging app.
A common source of emails for scam, spam and mayham was the compromise of other accounts. If someone who’d sent or received an email from you got hacked, their contact list (or sender/recipient lists) would obviously be downloaded and added to the database. I would not be surprised if the same is true of phones - also, contact lists get saved (backed up) to that great cloud in the sky, waiting to be hacked too. (Who was the idiot at pple who thought regular cloud backups was a great idea?)
Another possibility - I got my phone number from a cellphone provider (duh!) when smart phones were becoming popular, and that provider had been allocated a complete block (or dozens of blocks) of numbers, starting with the same sets of 3 digits, dedicated to cellphones. I get a lot of notices about my package from UPS/Canada Post or my Visa or Amazon account being hacked - not to mention robocalls to the same effect, including one in Chinese (apparently from what I’ve read, targeting immigrants warning them their status is under review and they may get deported unles they send $X to…) I even am warned the Mounties are coming to arrest me on behalf of the CRA for tax evasion - at least a little more geographically correct tha warnings about my account at Wells Fargo.(Do they even exist in Canada?)
My wife got her cellphone number back in the stone age, along with a brick phone. It came from the regular phone company, along with a number allocated that was interspersed with mostly land lines. She gets zero spam.
So some robo-dials and robo-texts are simply going through databases of potential cell numbers, spewing spam wholesale - since it costs nothing if the sender has access to a cooperative internet gateway to the phone system.