Posadas [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 years agoMy Apes! GONE!!!hexbear.netimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareJuneFall [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 years agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing One effect of the widespread availability of Caller ID spoofing is that, as AARP published in 2019, “you can no longer trust call ID.”[2][3] For fucks sake, this was old news when I was young, how can millionaires not know that kind of shit?
minus-squareSaint [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 years agoI think he was aware, which is why he said he called the number back.
minus-squareGenXen [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoI’m suspicious and think that whole part of the story might be fabricated so not to appear like a TOTAL idiot. I’m 50/50 on it, but I’d wager (real) dollars that he just looked on the call display and trusted it.
minus-squareemizeko [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years ago“hello, you have reached The Apple that makes the phones and the computers. how may I help you”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing
For fucks sake, this was old news when I was young, how can millionaires not know that kind of shit?
I think he was aware, which is why he said he called the number back.
I’m suspicious and think that whole part of the story might be fabricated so not to appear like a TOTAL idiot. I’m 50/50 on it, but I’d wager (real) dollars that he just looked on the call display and trusted it.
“hello, you have reached The Apple that makes the phones and the computers. how may I help you”