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Whenever I get a scam call, the first thing I do is say "Oh, this sounds VERY important, thank you for calling me. Please give me your phone number so I can cal
by DonHopkins 3y ago
Whenever I get a scam call, the first thing I do is say "Oh, this sounds VERY important, thank you for calling me. Please give me your phone number so I can call you back in case we get cut off."
Most of the time they hang up immediately, because the last thing they want is for me to call them back, but recently one scammer took the bait and tried to give me a fake phone number: 123456789.
So I pretended to believe them and earnestly write it down, but I kept getting the digits wrong and reading them back incorrectly, and asking them to repeat it, talking over them by reading the digits back while they were reading the next digits, repeating and swapping and missing digits, pretending not to get that it was an obviously fake phone number, until it drove them crazy that I could not understand something as simple as 123456789.
Then I asked for their company name ("Bitcoin Company"), and web site ("bitcoin.com"), and then tried to have them guide me through logging in, reading them what I saw on the page and clicked on to log in, and asking them where to click and what to enter and what to do next.
They finally got really angry frustrated and yelled at me and hung up, but not before I berated them for being a scammer!