Do you know what Kitboga and the like do to get themselves targeted by scammers?
If I ever get calls like this I'll keep them on the line as long as I can as a kind of game. I get called like maybe once a quarter though.
If I ever get calls like this I'll keep them on the line as long as I can as a kind of game. I get called like maybe once a quarter though.
I was in a bad place.
The phone rang. I knew I shouldn't pick it up, but I was in a bad place.
It was "microsoft", and they needed immediate payment to avoid legal action.
I am a little ashamed of what happened next but I dumped every curse word I could think upon that indian guy. It had nothing to do with him really, but I really let him have it.
Honestly, I feel bad looking back at it.
He may have been wrong, but I was wronger.
He is trying to survive like everyone else.. who the hell am I to sit in the comfy first world and judge?
You're not trying to scam people, he is.
This line of reasoning ultimately leads to the conclusion that morals only apply in situations where it’s comfortable and convenient to apply them. Perhaps any particular scammer has been the victim of their own set of injustices (or just as likely, perhaps not), but that in no way excuses their victimisation of others. They’re adults too. Not some poor lowly Indians who had no choice but to defraud the vulnerable.
He doesn't know you from a senile person living in poverty. They'll steal your money regardless of who you are. There's no moral justification for that. They are evil.
For me, it's been years. I've irritated a lot of scammers. I've also a fake bd of 01/23/45 for most of my online life so I fit right into their target group.
Iunno, I do this every time and they usually hang up on me quickly.
If they uber-marked me, they'll just waste even more time. But alas it hasn't happened.
These people are the lowest of the low, they prey on the senile and ignorant, stealing from them regardless of their economic status. There should be no pity. If I can end the conversation making the scammer regret their life decisions, or at least waste their time, it's a win.
From my experience: have a phone number. The real reason that I decommissioned my old landline was that it had become unusable: calls at all hours of the day and night, none of which were wanted and most of which were illegitimate.
Although I'm sure he does get targeted, he also uses a ton of virtual phone numbers, so he's only getting calls unless he wants them...
Many of the scams are just sequential or random dialing.
So having a bunch of VoIP numbers is enough to multiply your calls.
Others have call back numbers so you just need a trustworthy group of friends/fans to feed them to you.