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Who else likes to mess with spammers? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do because in general one of the following scenarios happen:

  1. A person is on the other side and when they notice the call went through they say hello (at which point I always reply regaedless of being scam/unexpected call/etc)
  2. A robot is on the other side and automatically starts blabbering gibberish (usually it is instant hang-up when I hear this)
  3. A robot is on the other side and waits for a signal, hanging up in around 3-5 seconds (since I was silent)

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)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Also, the burden of initiating conversation should be on the active caller side, not on the passice receiver

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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)

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