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MurrayDelph

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11. For a while I
Tue Aug 1, 2017, 08:25 PM
Aug 2017

would quiz "Bob" on how they were able to detect and trace my computer, but I figured why should I help them get better at scamming people.

Then I started trying to shame them with "Does your family know that you are trying to steal money from elderly people in America? Do you think they would feel honor for what you do? Why don't you find a job that won't bring dishonor on your family?"

Once or twice, I would listen to his spiel and then counter with "So. Whatcha wearin'?" That one flummoxed "Bob" who tried to continue, so I would say "my computer is fine. I'm trying to give you a chance to earn some money honestly." (I used to be a SysAdmin for a phone sex company).

The Fast-talker telling me I stayed at their resort, I would just hang up on. You can't mind-fuck artificial intelligence. Yet.

After a while, I got bored of the whole thing, and enabled my phone company's protection, which announces that we do not take telemarketing calls, and to continue they need to press 1. So far, the demon-dialers haven't learned to get around that.

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