Tell a Marketer
Sep. 15th, 2006 08:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talktoolooseQuick follow up to yesterday's telemarketer outrage:
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appelle who is worldly and wise assures me it wasn't a real telemarketer but a scam operation in an office somewhere. The tip-off, other than the behaviour, was the "press 9 to be connected".
In retrospect, I had the distinct impression I was talking to someone in Tony Soprano's office upstairs at the Bada Bing.
appelle who is worldly and wise assures me it wasn't a real telemarketer but a scam operation in an office somewhere. The tip-off, other than the behaviour, was the "press 9 to be connected".In retrospect, I had the distinct impression I was talking to someone in Tony Soprano's office upstairs at the Bada Bing.
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Date: 2006-09-15 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-15 03:19 pm (UTC)That would be possible to scam up, wouldn't it? Or would it?
Could pressing 9 automatically be the same as, say, dialing a 976 number?
Theoretically, I was already connected to them, so it would just be a transfer, not a new call, neh?
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Date: 2006-09-15 03:26 pm (UTC)