It’s hardly a statistically meaningful sample, but my landline phone is a torrent of pish. Another scam call today — fully automated telemarketing fraud, no less. And one call which went dead straight after answering.
I get people calling for take-aways, telemarketing for my former tenants, calls for Mr Spence, numerous calls that drop right away, and lord knows who else. More than half the calls I receive are of no value to me. Am I going to have to install an Asterisk PBX just to filter calls from friends and family, and do Turing tests on the rest?
“Hello, this is not a voicemail system. You still have a chance of speaking to the owner of the house. Firstly, please press 5 star hash 4 to indicate you are human. Thank you. Now please speak the name of the person with whom you wish to speak. Your entry will be compared with our database. I’m sorry, large pepperoni with extra mushrooms is not in our directory. Please try again later.”
Oh the irony of the gold rush of VoIP arbitrageurs rushing to interconnect with and re-create POTS on IP. The patient is sick, terminally ill. Time for a compassionate dispatch?
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