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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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