From: tppm@rr.ca.com   
      
   On 10/21/2025 6:58 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:   
   > 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!".   
   >   
     I almost never get such calls, they usually give up before the   
   answering machine gets to the record message segment.   
      
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