Who else likes to mess with spammers?
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Great news everyone! I've just been offered a position to remotely train an AI and I can make up to $6000 a day!
Yeah, right.
I'm in the middle of a conversation with someone who randomly instant messaged me. I like to play dumb with these people and then occasionally throw some obscure questions at them and watch them squirm, or just toss subtle insults in my replies.
Anyone else get a kick out of messing with these scammers? Any particular shenanigans you like to throw at them, out any good stories that have come from it?
One time I spelled my last name for almost an entire minute without being interrupted. This consisted of me saying random letters at a medium pace throwing in an occasional number or random sound. Everything was great until they hung up but their patience was impressive.
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Great news everyone! I've just been offered a position to remotely train an AI and I can make up to $6000 a day!
Yeah, right.
I'm in the middle of a conversation with someone who randomly instant messaged me. I like to play dumb with these people and then occasionally throw some obscure questions at them and watch them squirm, or just toss subtle insults in my replies.
Anyone else get a kick out of messing with these scammers? Any particular shenanigans you like to throw at them, out any good stories that have come from it?
I'm pretty sure these scam calls are because the phone companies don't care enough to build better systems. We just all accept a shitty world because Verizon can't be bothered.
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Great news everyone! I've just been offered a position to remotely train an AI and I can make up to $6000 a day!
Yeah, right.
I'm in the middle of a conversation with someone who randomly instant messaged me. I like to play dumb with these people and then occasionally throw some obscure questions at them and watch them squirm, or just toss subtle insults in my replies.
Anyone else get a kick out of messing with these scammers? Any particular shenanigans you like to throw at them, out any good stories that have come from it?
I get a lot of SEO spam at work. I usually reply to them that they are not on the first page of Google and then a bit of creativity.
"Is that why your services are cheap?"
"We will be proceeding with someone competent"
Or simply "isn't that funny"
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Also, the burden of initiating conversation should be on the active caller side, not on the passice receiver
As an active caller, unless there is a ton of background noise, I may or may not get any indication that the person I'm calling has actually picked up. So I'm just going to sit there until they say something or hang up.
Ahh, fair enough, I always can tell when somebody picked up because the timely beeps stop (and also somehow I know that the silence from the background is different from the silence before it)
