2 friends just moved here 6 weeks ago. We’ve frequented a pub since then and made friends with a bartender who’s a little odd, but seemed friendly. We went to the pub tonight and had 3 beers (proving we aren’t hammered) and left around 12:30am. Went back to their new place and danced around to music, ordered pizza and waited for it to be delivered. Pizza was delivered at 1:40am and at 1:45am my friend gets a text from the bartender “will do!” Unprompted. Out of no where. No text on his phone that was being replied to. We see a car pull in and it’s the bartender. We’re all pretty taken aback since we don’t know how he even got the address, and visibly all confused and just weirded out. My friend asks him hey man happy you’re here but how did you know where we live? The bartender replied you texted me to come over……
He pulls out his phone and shows us their convo where my friend apparently sent a text “come through when you get out we’re at (address I won’t say on the internet).” We compared phones next to each other and their convo leading up to that was identical, and they both have the “will do!” Text after it. But my friend does not have the text he apparently sent and swears he’s not messing with us. Google says SMS spoofing but it is so specific to us being there at the pub with him bartending 30 mins before, and the text mentioning him coming over when he’s out. We’re shaken up and the bartender was definitely weird about it. Our brains of course want a logical explanation for it and want to come up with reasoning but we’ve been sitting on the couch talking in circles and it’s now 4:45am. Is this a tech scam or is this more malicious to setting us up for robbery
I know my friend sending it is the most logical explanation but I’m telling you that is 100% not the case and I’d bet my life on it. He wouldn’t have let the joke get as far as it did. It was him, his girlfriend and I (another late 20’s female) at their house when it happened. His girlfriend was visibly shaken up after the bartender left and cried that she felt unsafe, he wouldn’t have let it get to that point without coming forward about it. I crashed on their couch instead of going home because they felt unsafe at their place worried someone was gonna come back. I don’t have a reasonable explanation for any of it, we’re all baffled. But def not my friend pulling a joke and deleting the text.
Let’s say the bartender actually injected this message, which is unlikely just to begin with, how would he know where to find you and the exact address? Did he know about the specifics of this party?