Great news everyone! I’ve just been offered a position to remotely train an AI and I can make up to $6000 a day!
Yeah, right.
I’m in the middle of a conversation with someone who randomly instant messaged me. I like to play dumb with these people and then occasionally throw some obscure questions at them and watch them squirm, or just toss subtle insults in my replies.
Anyone else get a kick out of messing with these scammers? Any particular shenanigans you like to throw at them, out any good stories that have come from it?
Honestly I’m too worried about my voice/image being AI spoofed to bother answering any calls I’m not expecting.
While I know I’m not rich enough to be a target I lack the cybersecurity skills to chew what I might bite off if I made it personal by trolling them.
It’s not necessarily about being rich. You have an identity that can be abused to get stuff like credit and loans and open up accounts depending on what they can get. Obviously they’re not going to get THAT far with just a single recording of you saying “hello”, but I want to dispel the myth that only the rich are targeted by scammers
I have grandparents. Don’t want them getting scammed.
And hello isn’t enough but a 10 word sentence is plenty.
I try not to mess around with ANY voice calls, so I usually just hang up shortly after I realize what’s happening.
Yea I won’t even speak until I hear someone on the other end. Even then I disguise my voice until I’m certain it’s a legit caller.
You purposely pick up and sit in silence? Not even a “Yo”, “Sup”, or “Aye”?
I wondered why people have been doing that when I call them at work. Sucks to be them, they’ve been waiting 2 weeks to 2 months for an appointment. I just hang up and move on to the next. If they didn’t want to talk they should have let it go to voicemail.
I do because in general one of the following scenarios happen:
But to be fair if it was ever a human in scenario 3 and I missed an important call, I wouldn’t know (however I don’t think that ever happened)
Also, the burden of initiating conversation should be on the active caller side, not on the passice receiver
And lastly, I heard thar if you answer the robots, your number gets flagged as real (instead of other robot), making the scammers call you more often (I’m agnostic in regards to this statement)
As an active caller, unless there is a ton of background noise, I may or may not get any indication that the person I’m calling has actually picked up. So I’m just going to sit there until they say something or hang up.
Ahh, fair enough, I always can tell when somebody picked up because the timely beeps stop (and also somehow I know that the silence from the background is different from the silence before it)
Now that you mention it, I think I’ve noticed that too. Is it like the phone version of the Gen Z stare?
That’s just an effective tactic. I’m way older than gen z and figured out a long time ago that unless a reply is absolutely necessary, just staying quiet and staring will get a transactional conversation to it’s point and over much quicker.