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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by jerkstate on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:52AM (#20778853)
I started getting the "Apple Support" scam robocall a couple weeks ago, and I decided to have some fun with the operator who tries to get you to install malware on your system. Slow playing, playing dumb, acting like they are talking about fruit not computers, and so on. It was fun for a little bit.

So they must have put me on a different list. Now I get the same call with the same intro, but when you press "1" - it connects you not to the scam operator, but to another hapless individual who's been robo-dialed. I get this call about 10x a day now.

I hope they throw the book at these clowns.

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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by hatchnyc on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:21PM (#20779136)
Did this once, after 40 minutes or so of pretending to run a dozen different diagnostic tests on my computer the guy asked me to read him an error from the log. I told him it said something like "Fatal System Exception 0x0051: Someone is trying to play a scam on you."

He just screamed "fuck you!" and hung up.

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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by novok on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:40PM (#20780995)
Product Idea: Scam caller time waster.

When you get a call, press a button to redirect them to your time waster. Hire them from the same area that the scammers hire people for these things.

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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by btilly on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:05PM (#20781334)
Already done.

See https://jollyrogertelephone.com/ and enjoy.

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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:49PM (#20781124)
Meet Lenny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSoOrlh5i1k

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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by coding123 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @12:46AM (#20785285)
Oooh, and if you like that stuff.. my wife and I love a good Saturday night watching things like this: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23ScammerRevol...

I like ScammerRevolts a bit more than the others simply because he fucks up the scammers' computers... :)

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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by arkitaip on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:35PM (#20779301)
well done - kitboga would have been proud!
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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by jcranendonk on Friday August 23, 2019 @05:27PM (#20782774)
Context: kitboga[1] is a streamer on Twitch.tv who makes a living of wasting scammers' time. He uses voice modulation and a variety of tools (such as a fake banking website) to increase credibility in the eyes of the scammers he gets on the phone.

[1] https://www.twitch.tv/kitboga

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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by e40 on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:26PM (#20783791)
Yep, I did this once with "Credit card services" and after about 20 minutes, I had gotten all the way to level 3. Level 2 was a hapless individual, but level 3 was a smooth talking ahole that was amazingly adept at manipulation. When I hung up he immediately called back and I told him I had been called dozens of times by this scam and this was my way of getting back at him. Click. 20 seconds later my phone rings and a person is screaming at me, telling me he wants off the list, etc, etc.

I unhooked my phone and called AT&T and tried to report it. They tried to get me to go through some absurd process and I dropped it.

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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by rrauenza on Friday August 23, 2019 @06:26PM (#20783312)
I had someone going for a while trying to figure out when they could clean my ducks.
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Re:Phone Companies Ink Deal With All 50 States And D.C. To C... by Scoundreller on Saturday August 24, 2019 @06:02AM (#20786282)
I’m waiting for the hair duct cleaners to call back. The ducts aren’t putting out as much hair as they used to :(
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