I know it is an attempt at a scam, but how was it supposed to work?

[luvmytoolz]

@Crazyraceguy I've just spent the last several weeks working through a PCI DSS audit, and watched in horror as the dev team leader fed every single question no matter how trivial into chatgpt, and took the results as gospel running them on the command line on production servers.

I was equally surprised and frightened at the eloquence of some of the responses, and the fact that the art of googling and analysing the results seems to have been ditched in favour of complete and utter blind faith in whatever AI dishes up!

 

[fritter63]

I've done it a couple times. I get quite a few scammers posing as women, so I usually get a bit rude and tell them to come over. Why? You know why.

I'll chat a bit because I'm bored at that moment. And then I get bored and delete the chat.

I do that too.

Lead them on a bit. Even tried to see if I could get one to meet me in NYC (I'm nowhere near there).

Last time I replied "Hey, I got picked up in an ICE raid, can you bail me out?"

Once my mother in law got a call claiming she'd won the lottery (she hadn't played). So I called back and pretended to be an ignorant red neck pig farmer. Kept them going for 45 minutes. Really wish I'd recorded it. My favorite:


Scammer: We'll send an armored car with 50 thousand dollars to your house
me: [read this in a country hick accent]: Well, will that be in hundred dollar bills?
Scammer: Of course it will be, sir!
Me: Well that's a problem, our local bank will only accept 20 dollar bills
Scammer: Ok, we can send it in 20 dollar bills
Me: Ok, so does that mean there will be FIVE armored cars now? Because the creek flooded between the road and my house, and you'll need 4WD to get through......

 

[fritter63]

The guy I used to work for had an "AI" bot on the company phone line. When it detected a sales call, it would forward to an automated machine with some old guy who was almost impossible to understand. It would just keep leading them on with gibberish until they hung up.....

 

[4nthony]

I don't like to talk to people on the phone,

Ha. You and me both, brother!

Every time I end a call, I think to myself, "that could've been a text".

I need to change my voicemail greeting to something like, "thanks for the call now please send a text".

 

[Vondawg]

I think these calls can come from too many goggle searches

 

[Crazyraceguy]

Ha. You and me both, brother!

Every time I end a call, I think to myself, "that could've been a text".

I need to change my voicemail greeting to something like, "thanks for the call now please send a text".

When I changed carriers, a few years ago, I never even setup my mailbox. I thought about putting in a message, saying text or don't bother, but too many people would just override it. Anyone who actually knows me, wouldn't call anyway.
They know to text.