From: petertrei@gmail.com
On 10/22/2025 8:46 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <0001HW.2EA991CB010C941A700007F8438F@news.supernews.com>,
> WolfFan wrote:
>> On Oct 21, 2025, Dorothy J Heydt wrote
>> (in article ):
>>> [Hal Heydt]
>>> I've developed a number of tactics that work to varying degrees.
>>> Since the calls I get are on a household land (three adults and
>>> teenager), I'll ask who they're trying to contact. If they come
>>> up with a name, it's almost invariably pronounced wrong. I still
>>> get calls for Dorothy, to which I reply that she ahsn't been at
>>> this number for over three years.
>>
>> My mother still gets calls for my father, who’s been dead for the better
>> part of a decade. She also gets snail mail ‘offers’ for various things.
>> The most amusing have been the ‘final expense’ guys and the life
>> insurance guys.
>
> [Hal Heydt]
> Got a call wanting to talk to Dorothy today. I gave my usual
> answer. Then he asked if I knew her, to which I replied,
> "Intimately." The implications seemed get by the caller. He
> that this was the only number they for her, at which point I
> repeated that she hadn't been at the number for over three years,
> and--no--I didn't have another number for her.
I try to give them a bad day. Particularly if they have a South
Asian accent, I explain to them that they are dishonoring their
parents and their family. Even for Westerners, asking them if
their mother knows what they *actually* do for a living, and is
she proud of them, seems to give them pause.
However, note that in the Asian case, a huge number of scam
calls are being made by literal slaves, held in captivity.
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-myanmar-scam-cities-booming-crackdown.html
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