I tried Nick’s approach a while ago (before full employment) and the person on the other end starting crying. Made me feel terrible.
Another time, I cursed at one who was telling me a series of lies. He responded with an admirable string of curses that I was unable to match. Ed __________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) edward.an...@gmail.com 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > On Apr 18, 2023, at 4:56 PM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Nick. I need to warn you. Talking to these spammers, at your stage of life. > is very dangerous. They'll abuse how elderlies did like you did and try to > get some good from the call. Now that they know it's a live human they won't > stop. If the number comes back dead, sooner than latter its taken out of > their database. They want to catch old people when their Bullshit and F you > filters are off. > Best thing to do is not to answer especially when you're talking to someone > with a sharp knife scalpel and a massive dose of pain killers! Scammers > make ***** ton of money daily by wearing people down! They are at best > sociopaths. > 0-wear someone down > 1-beg for money > 2-for some surreal reason use teamviewer a remote controll app for windows. > 3-more surreally pressure the weakened persson: ie YOU! into using a lot, > like lots and lots of giftcards the ahole redeams in an account. often india, > or china. > 4-get you to use zelle to wire that money over > 5??? > 6: you are so screwed and out of literally thousands of dollers > > so don't answer when the phone says spam/scam incoming. My friends and family > leave a message, and or text if I didn't answer for whatever reason. > Android has built in scam blocking. iOS does as well. Personally I also have > nomorobo. > > These pitty party scammers are also in faceplant facebook groups! I kid > you not, I'm in a blender for the masochist for people to do art in. > After being frustrated how few of the pictures or models are from the poster. > You get guys like someone who in the best engrish since 70s wireful and 80s > anime said > "I laptop need for blender, someone send me one it is new.," Now get this: > Kid is in nigeria, claims to have parents that are royalty but poor me. they > don't talk to me. and wants a new gizmo to make pretty pictures from blender. > His profile was reported to facebook, and he was kicked from that group. > Scarily enough their are tons, of people like that. > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 2:30 PM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com > <mailto:sasm...@swcp.com>> wrote: > Nick - > > > > > > I chatted up one of the callers. I suggested that at a time of full > > employment, perhaps a bright guy like him might get a better job. He > > replied that he was being paid quite well for his efforts! Apparently > > the number of any fool who answers their phone is worth $7 > Sounds like he got is money's worth on that call! > > . > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam <https://bit.ly/virtualfriam> > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > <https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/> > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > <http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/> > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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