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It's easy to write spam off as a minor annoyance, but you're not the intended target. Your parents and grandparents are, and your immigrant neighbor who doesn't
by Causality1 6y ago
It's easy to write spam off as a minor annoyance, but you're not the intended target. Your parents and grandparents are, and your immigrant neighbor who doesn't speak English well, and the intellectually disabled woman who waves to you at the grocery store. These are predators who prey on the vulnerable and ignorant and ruin lives on a daily basis. They are the absolute scum of the earth.
- devmunchies 6y ago> These are predators who prey on the vulnerable and ignorant and ruin lives on a daily basis most companies want to do this. the rub is that most advertising makes you think it was your choice or that it was a good deal.
- knodi123 6y ago> you're not the intended target. Your parents and grandparents are A significant number of the spam calls I get are just dead air. Like, ring ring, I pick up, I say hello {myname} here, and I hear nothing. I wonder if they're filtering out young voices? If I said hello in a quavery weak voice, would they start their pitch? Or is it some hapless scammer who just can't figure out how to set up his robocalling software?
- ALittleLight 6y agoI think these are calls with a potentially live person at the other end. Their system dials X numbers simultaneously and then hands off any answers to an operator. If there's no available operator then you'll just get dead air.
- knodi123 6y agowow, talk about a "numbers game" strategy!
- habeebtc 6y agoExactly so. I talk to scammers regularly. To waste their time, and also learn about what they do and how they operate. When I answer a call in my normal voice, they might hang up right away. They hang around more if I try and sound like an old person, or talk slower (like I may have lower cognitive or language skills).