From: user3070@newsgrouper.org.invalid
WolfFan posted:
> On Oct 21, 2025, Joy Beeson wrote
> (in article):
>
> > 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 just love the calls where they ‘have to verify your identity’ and want
> the last four of your social, the zip code, various other things. I’ve
> started to point out that they called me, they are the ones who need to
> verify stuff... such as their name, the orginization they represent, what,
> exactly, they’re selling... they usually hang up.
I'll say 'hello', but if a human answers, and I suspect a scam, my next
line, regardless of what they ask, may well be a blunt "What do you want?".
This
throws them off their script.
Pt
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