• RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️
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    6 hours ago

    I get that feeling when I press “report spam” and gmail suggest I “unsubscribe from them”, that that’s exactly what the spammer want, a ping back so they know I’m susceptible, that I’m an engaging fool, and get put on all the lists.

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      49 minutes ago

      It drives me nuts that I can’t turn off the unsubscribe feature entirely. I’ll use their unsubscribe button once, and if it doesn’t work, then all future emails are getting forwarded back to whoever I gave the email address.

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      5 hours ago

      Not sure if emails work the same way, but this is how phone scammers work

      If you interact with a phone scammer, send them to hell or do anything at all with them, you just get added to a big lost of people that respond to scam calls and so you get more calls

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          1 hour ago

          They get paid for that time. They literally do not care.

          You’re only wasting your own time.

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          4 hours ago

          I have a work phone and a personal phone. The work phone i answer calls from I known numbers all the time. My contact information gets passed around as part of my business. For a while I had scammers hitting my number 3-4 times per day. I answered and fucked with them every time. A little free stress relief through the day. Now I almost never get them anymore.

          My personal phone I have always screened all the calls. It still gets hit with scammers 2-3 times per week.

          I guess you are right. There is a list going around of numbers who waste their time.

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          4 hours ago

          That’s what I figured too. Make sure to be the biggest pain for them. Seems dumb to put someone that is savvy and not a rube on a list to be called more. I would think the not answering scam calls would get you more calls because they are unsure of you.

          • I defiantly got onto the call more list at one point but I kept being the biggest pain in the ass and one day they just stopped completely. I once had these one people on the phone for 6hours straight and went through about 4 transfers in the process. They connected with my VM at one point where I was live developing a fake bank website I had passed through from my host. Did u know u can embed the password game into a website extremely easily and conveniently I needed a password reset and needed help. Yes I stole the idea from kitboga.

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              1 hour ago

              Jesus Christ dude. 6 hours?!

              Ignoring calls is easy enough. I value my time more.

              If I don’t recognize a number I just don’t answer it. No time commitment.