Black Cat's Day for Modern Communication

[Aqua Pro Builder]

My cable router reset more 10 times from this morning on and the next problem I ran into will be world record I think.

I got 5 spam calls in less than 30 minutes and they are from all new numbers I never marked spam. Besides the usual one, "This is the second notice of ...", I got a new one saying, "This is Jessica of .... and this is your last chance to lower your interest...." I wonder how they know I owe 2 zillion dallors and need a lower interest rate?:tongue1:

The crazy thing is that when you try to call those numbers, those numbers seems to be non working numbers. Not sure if that's their own message or telephone companies have worked out plans for spam marketers with this kind of shields. I always has a gut feeling that telephone companies should bare large part of the responsibility in this spamming thing.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

LOL
more than 11 times resetting now.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

The 6th spam call of the day, but marked before, so I did not bother to answer.

 

[mckostya]

i love the one thats starts with ship's horn and then the guys goes "Hello this is your captain speaking...." cracks me up every time
but yeah 5 spam calls...

 

[dagreatbadfinger]

thats actually a form of spoofing - the phone calls. i assume your phone is like optvoice or something similar which is a form of VOIP.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

i love the one thats starts with ship's horn and then the guys goes "Hello this is your captain speaking...." cracks me up every time
but yeah 5 spam calls...

did u ever hear what the captain try to sell/say?
i never got that one

 

[Killerdrgn]

Yeah VOIP has made phone spamming much more efficient these days. almost no real cost and you can have 1 server sending multiple calls at a time.

 

[TOTAL AQUARIUMS]

I would say one out of 5 calls to the store is a spam recording for something and that ship's horn one is the most amusing. I love when it's a real person though, we all mess with them. Last week I had a guy in india pass me off to his supervisor because I turned the phone call into the inquisition. They only wanted to schedule a visit from a rep for the cable company.

 

[mckostya]

haha yep i get the captain call twice a month at least!!
Promises a free cruise to Bermuda with completion of ten question personal survey. You answer the questions, get transferred to call queue, and get disconnected. I did not hang up, did not lose service, just get disconnected...

 

[TOTAL AQUARIUMS]

So EVIL