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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-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”
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.
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.
“hello, you have reached The Apple that makes the phones and the computers. how may I help you”
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.