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?

  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    Meanwhile 99% of the people I want to talk to are contacts in my phone or businesses with caller id.

    And that’s why I don’t feel too bad moving on to the next. If I’m calling someone, they had to have called me at least once already. If they’re too lazy to save the number and want to play silly games, I have better uses of my time. I was just curious of the thought process.

    It’s when they detect a voice that the auto dialer connects you with the scammer.

    I just hang up as soon as I hear that little “bloop” sound and that cuts out 90% of them.