$$$: Email and phone scams are increasing. You can get taken for thousands.

[Genki Hikari]

8. For fun

I've considered recording the greeting I get when I call the supermarket pharmacy. It sounds like a computer trying too hard to sound like a real person, and failing miserably. that would be perfect for yanking scammers around. Not that I get that many of them, but yanking scammers around is always good.

Yeah, I was that person in the 80s who used to mess with people via my answering machine greeting. Like the recording that only said, "WHAT?" Very aggressively.

That was it.

Eventually, I settled on dead silence until the beep. That one cut back on a lot of hassle in my life.

Every now and then, I get the "mess with people," itch again, but I ignore it for the standard, dead-boring, "You have reached (number). Please leave a message after the tone." Or however it goes. I've had the provider too long to remember the wording.