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I've told Ma a hundred times if I've told her once to *not* press numbers on the phone if scammers tell her to "press 2 to be removed."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2016
But it just goes in one ear and out the other, because she just keeps doing it. That's why scammers keep calling so much in the first place.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2016
Just this week alone, so far, we've gotten half a dozen calls about "Google listings" or "timeshares" or whatever the fuck else.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2016
I very literally wish death upon anyone and everyone who has ever used and will ever use a telephone for nefarious purposes like that.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) April 19, 2016
Seriously, I've told her and I've told her and I've fucking told her this shit I don't know how many times, but she just keeps right the hell on pressing the goddamn buttons when the robo-scammers tell her to.
*weary, depressed, frustrated, goddamn sigh*
(EDIT) I guess the only consolation here is that this house is still wired with a precambrian-era rotary phone line, and as such, pressing buttons on the handset of her cordless phone doesn't actually do anything anyway, even on legitimate calls. It's why I have to call on my cellphone, rather than on the house phone, whenever we have to do things like complain about the newspaper and such (and, yes, we are still having to complain about them not properly delivering her fucking newspaper even now, at least as recently as just yesterday, though to be fair, they have been a lot better about it after the BBB got on their ass about it). (/EDIT)
