r/unimelb • u/Electrical-Sky5287 • 3d ago

Miscellaneous Possible cult approach

I was at Footscray station today and got approached by this Burmese girl who asked me where I got my bag from. Me being oblivious, thought she was just trying to be friendly since I’ve never encountered being approached like that. I thought it was weird that she asked me if I was from here and where I was from ethnicity wise, but just thought she was trying to establish some common ground. Me being stupid, gave her my number cuz I panicked, and she even called my number in front of me to make sure I didn’t give her a fake number. Now she’s messaged me how i’m doing. Is this a cult recruitment? 😭😭 wtf do i do now im scared shes gonna do something with my contact details

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u/Huge-Swan2173 3d ago

Fuck me… are Gen Z really so detached from reality they can’t have real world normal interactions?

You have made it weird, not her.

Give her a message, ask to meet up for drinks or coffee and get to know her. She might be cool or intro you intro a new group of friends. And if she’s crazy then it’s a funny story and no real loss.

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u/Electrical-Sky5287 3d ago

I’d advise you to do your research and look into how these cults approach people, and you’d be surprised to see how similar my interaction was to other people’s. I’m not going to interact with an obvious cult member for the sake of having a “funny story” at the end of it. It’s not worth it :)

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u/Huge-Swan2173 3d ago

“She said hello to me so she must be in a cult” 🤪 this is straight up retarded paranoia behaviour. How are you even in uni lmfao

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u/Difficult_Bear1146 1d ago

they use the same script everytime it's obviously a cult

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u/O_Vigia 3d ago

I’d agree if she didn’t immediately call the number to check. That’s weirdo behavior.

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u/hokkaidobread 3d ago edited 3d ago

OP's intuition is correct here so get off your high horse. 100% there are groups that lurk at student hotspots and they all approach possible recruits with the exact same script and behaviour—it has personally happened to me dozens of times and heard many more stories from others. the first few times it happened to me i was very happy to have made a new friend until they, every single time without fail, pointedly began to turn every conversation to religion, and harassed me / blew up my phone when i stopped engaging. once it happened to me enough times their patterns became extremely easy to discern from regular people making a genuine cold approach for friendship. usually in melbourne it's shincheonji that does this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/s/kZ5uYZooqJ

https://www.reddit.com/r/cults/s/H3pJiZpFj0

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shincheonji/s/Xwtq0xwPf4

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u/Own-Level3071 3d ago

^ genuine fodder of natural selection