Comment by szert
15 hours ago
I am pretty sure the two police scam attempts I uploaded are real people.
There are more , one guy spent almost an hour talking with the bot, even called back when the bot hang up because of the time limits I put on (it says I gotta go sorry). It played so well all the way, like pretending to search for email in spam folder, looking for a pen etc. :)
And a few automated crap AI like the add me on what's app and a whatever crypto bot.
My theory is: picking up, making zero noise and just waiting for it to hang up has a chance of marking it as a fax line or some other automated system. Eitherway, it wastes their time but never engages.
But it's also _not a real person_; these are automated dialers that wait for someone to speak, then they get transfered to a scammer. 99% of the time, there's not anyone listening at the start. It's only when you engage does it go to the scammer.
People conceptualize this stuff wrongly. Having worked in debt collection teaches you just how automated it all was, 30 years ago.