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Not sure if it helps, but every chance I get I keep them on the line as if I was falling for it (similar to but less sophisticated than kitboga, a man who has m
by gosub100 3y ago
Not sure if it helps, but every chance I get I keep them on the line as if I was falling for it (similar to but less sophisticated than kitboga, a man who has made a career out of scamming scammers).
The robot callers are adapting, recently using soundboards (a legit sounding "hi this is bill." but really a sound file) and speech to text to interpret my replies and keep the happy path automated as much as possible. Do not try deviating from the program, i.e if you ask what day it is, they will detect the subversion and hang up. I use a credit card number generator to let them try over and over with bad numbers. I have heard a rumor that credit card networks charge a fee for each failed number (that passes the LUN checksum). Can anyone confirm if this is true?
- blitzar 3y agoI personally see it as my mission to keep them on the line as long as humanly possible, it might just save someones life - my personal best was 90 minutes. That was a few years ago now, and they certainly seem more sophisticated these days.
- gosub100 3y agoI normally get run-of-the-mill vehicle warranty and fake charity scammers. Only once was I bestowed with the poisonous species of loot-your-bank-account scammer, and I only got 5-10 minutes with him. He had very elaborate countermeasures. I lost him when he called me back and asked me to repeat my SSN, and I couldn't remember what I had told him. I recently lost a rather benign life insurance scammer because he asked my age , and then my dob and I couldn't think fast enough. Next time, Gadget, Next Time!
- jquast 3y agoit would be like saying, “I’ll show those email scammers, by reading and replying to every spam email, surely they will be overburdened”, when you’re fighting automatic programs with human time, you’ve already lost