I got a spam robot call the other day, and the thing was set to laugh a little and say "Do I really sound that bad?" in response to being asked if it was a robot. It was pretty convincing, but then it said "I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that" twice, with identical intonation, so I asked it to spell something, and it cut me off. Then yesterday I got a spam call - a real person, trying to pass himself off as being connected to the Subaru company wiithout actually saying so - he hung up when I insisted on gettingng the name and e-mail of his company.
There truly must be a sucker born every minute in order for these creeps to make any money at all with these totally-lame scams. I've developed a bad attitude toward robot callers, whether or not they're legitimate; I figure if they call me, they are mine to toy with.
Oh, absolutely. There was a scam going around Second Life for a while--random female avatar would bump into someone, apologize, then start talking about their life. How they had this boyfriend, and she wanted to impress them, but she'd run into some financial difficulty, and could the other person spare some Lindens?
Someone did the legwork and tracked down a Korean fellow who was pulling in about $65,000 US a month with these tricks. While they were all bots, he was responsible for varying the scripts, and even after word got out that these were wholly scripted bots, people still gave the avatars Lindens.
But yeah--a lot of the stuff that hits my spam folder, I wonder why they bother, and who, exactly, is gullible enough to pay into their nonsense.
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I got a spam robot call the other day, and the thing was set to laugh a little and say "Do I really sound that bad?" in response to being asked if it was a robot. It was pretty convincing, but then it said "I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that" twice, with identical intonation, so I asked it to spell something, and it cut me off. Then yesterday I got a spam call - a real person, trying to pass himself off as being connected to the Subaru company wiithout actually saying so - he hung up when I insisted on gettingng the name and e-mail of his company.
There truly must be a sucker born every minute in order for these creeps to make any money at all with these totally-lame scams. I've developed a bad attitude toward robot callers, whether or not they're legitimate; I figure if they call me, they are mine to toy with.
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Someone did the legwork and tracked down a Korean fellow who was pulling in about $65,000 US a month with these tricks. While they were all bots, he was responsible for varying the scripts, and even after word got out that these were wholly scripted bots, people still gave the avatars Lindens.
But yeah--a lot of the stuff that hits my spam folder, I wonder why they bother, and who, exactly, is gullible enough to pay into their nonsense.
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