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• Pigeon commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  "I am talking about them having no idea what other customer support people had already said or done." You say that as if there are organisations that are not like that?...
• Robert Prior commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  Either they're spoofing it, and calling from a call center in India. That's virtually all the non-robocalls I get. The Do-Not-Call list has no effect on them, as they are out of its jurisdiction. Which is why I waste their time, to create an incentive for them to take me off their list. Sometimes, if I'm in a pissy mood, I'll wonder out speculate about how their parents must be so proud, to have raised a son who makes his living as a criminal trying to scam money from poor grandparents…...
• whitroth commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  When I was getting people, 90% of whom had really heavy Indian accents (no, I don't know which Indian language the accent is from), I got them to hang up on me, when I said, "If your grandmother knew what you were doing for a living, she'd be ashamed of you." Most of them now, though, are robocalls, and if they answer, it's "Rachel", or.......
• Chris Suslowicz commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  The Indian boiler-room operations have been using the robocall with "Press 1 to speak to a representative" for a while now. I have a Caller-ID display box that has the useful feature of displaying very long numbers (including the country code), and also "INTERNATIONAL" - which works even if they've spoofed a local call. I use the "Would your mother be proud of you?" response quite a lot. (Also "Network Support" - vaguely related to $Dayjob - if they're pretending to be Openreach or other internet/comms provider.) and some of the others are simply invited to FOAD....
• JohnS commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  Chris Suslowicz @ 978: The Indian boiler-room operations have been using the robocall with "Press 1 to speak to a representative" for a while now. I have a Caller-ID display box that has the useful feature of displaying very long numbers (including the country code), and also "INTERNATIONAL" - which works even if they've spoofed a local call. I use the "Would your mother be proud of you?" response quite a lot. (Also "Network Support" - vaguely related to $Dayjob - if they're pretending to be Openreach or other internet/comms provider.) and some of the others are simply invited to...