Nate writes: > If the media is to be believed, this has happened for years with the > elderly being targeted for Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid/etc. scams > and a lot of folks being bilked out of large sums of money. With phone > directory information online from several sources getting one's name and > phone number are trivial exercises.
Those calls were not automated. They were just ordinary con men working over the phone. Each call used up the con man's time so it had to be carefully targetted so as to be likely to yield substantial money. That kept the total volume down. These calls are fully automated and usually use cracked PBXs so the cost per call is down there with spams sent from bots. Thus we can expected to receive millions of them. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
