I always wonder about the workflow for these folks. Like, do they look at your attachments at all, or just have a pre-made response whenever someone sends an image with a positive-seeming reply? They had to look at your e-mail enough to get the name of the picture and the cost, but beyond that.... I mean, at this point it could all be bots. Then you have legends like Jim Browning and Kitboga who take scam baiting to even greater heights.
I’ve had some fun with people running IT scams out of India, but decided against documenting such. I have a real nice old lady voice I do. Doing it once, impulsively, was a stupid mistake; I got put on a call list. And that’s probably how I treated hundreds of spammers over a couple of years to my acoustic rendition of Li’l Wayne’s “Ms. Officer” chorus hook for my voicemail. It does something like tricks algorithms into thinking that they’re on the line with a human instead of voicemail, because I get a lot of something like the last 2/5 of some recorded spam messages. I’m not really sure how it works, because most callers don’t leave a message at all, which seems weird. I wish there was some common library of scam and botscam knowledge. But the landscape is changing so rapidly that anecdotes are about the best we can do. That said, I do want to give a shout out to the recent legislation passed by the gov’t to curb phone spam calls. It’s made a serious difference for me - Album sales are at an all-time low. Jk it’s a free mixtape
Dude, that’s great! How am I just hearing about it? :( Thanks ya
You bet. And what can I say, the internet is a very large place :)