so i’ve been indulging, recently, in baiting scammers (a PHENOMENALLY ENORMOUS waste of time, but whatever)… and the thing i really wonder is why they get so mad when i call them out… like, I am the one doing the wrong thing, here… never mind that what they’re TRYING to do is illegal and immoral (i’m not sure about fattening), and they should be tossed in jail for the rest of their natural born days… 😠 they cuss me out and say the most nasty things about me, and then they hang up before i get to ask them why they feel that way about me! 🤷

i’ve currently got 1,269 “unknown” numbers BLOCKED in my phone, which hasn’t slowed them down in the slightest. i got a spam text message, this morning, from “Morocco”, to get “Apple tech support”, for an “unauthorized P0rnhub.com purchase”, gave me a REALLY SKETCHY LOOKING URI to click on (which, significantly, was NOT “apple dot com”, but “luminous-cassata-02fac0 dot netify dot app” 🙄), or wanted me to call a number in Honolulu, Hawai’i. when i called that number, this happened:

they all start out the same. the mark sucker patsy OTHER PARTICIPANT says “Thank you for calling Apple support, my name is Kevin (or whatever), how can I help you today?”

salamandir: Hi Kevin, I’m wondering if you can tell me what it feels like to steal money from people?

Kevin: Go fuck yourself, mother fucker, son of a bitch!

to employ an aphorism from the ’70s, “well EXCUUUUUUUUUSE me!!!” 🙄