From: jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 19 Oct 2025 13:29:33 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com   
   (Scott Dorsey) wrote:   
      
   > Joy Beeson   wrote:   
   > >On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 17:54:37 -0000 (UTC), "Keith F. Lynch"   
   > > wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> maybe one of the victims annoyed by all these unpunished scam calls   
   > >> will hunt down the scammers and kill them.   
   > >   
   > >The people who do the actual calling are slaves.   
   >   
   > Many of them aren't people at all but machines pretending to be people.   
   > Once they think you'll talk they'll transfer you to a human.   
      
   And the human invariably has an incomprehensible accent;   
   it's no longer possible to find sufficiently-desperate   
   Americans.   
      
   Whenever I can do so without inconveniencing myself, I   
   string them along -- time spent reciting to my pocket is   
   time not spent harassing other people.  But the human always   
   hangs up the first time he fails to extract my data.   
      
   Sometimes I can get the robot to respond to "do you have a   
   right to call this number" with "Oh, no, that's not the   
   case!".   
      
   --   
   Joy Beeson   
   joy beeson at centurylink dot net   
   http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/   
      
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