This is heartbreaking, but in a backwards way it makes me feel a little better about getting these kinds of texts. Now, instead of automatically getting pissed off that some rando is trying to scam me, I’ll feel sympathy knowing that the person sending the texts is more likely a victim themselves. There’s still very little I can personally do about it, but at least now we know, that in some instances like this, someone doing something shitty might only be doing it because they’ve been forced. That makes a difference (selfishly at least), but this whole situation is still just awful.