...Whats with those weird calls where you answer, and then nobody replies? Is it a computer trying to gather data about who you are? It makes me paranoid. :/
@Angle so yes it is a robot but you're just being spared a sales call
@shel Huh, ok. That's wierd, but whatever. Why not just talk to all four? It seems like that wouldn't be much harder. :/
@Angle I have heard, and I'm unsure if it's urban legend, that some calls are engineered to make you say "yes?" or "okay" and then use your voice sample to claim you signed up for something.
@zigg I have not heard that one. It sounds like it wouldn't be permissible in a court of law, but I guess that doesn't mean they wouldn't do it.. :/
@Angle Yeah, I do know for a fact that a lot of scams are designed to just scare people into complying, rather than actually stand up in court.
@Angle Deets on the specific scam I mentioned: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/beware-new-can-you-hear-me-scam/
@viciousviscosity @Angle It's true, I always roll non-contacts (and the school principal's nightly three-minute parental address) to voicemail.
@Angle I heard that it was to check at which hour you are more likely to pick up the call, and then sell the data to phone-sales. But I see everyone has a different theory for this :D
@Angle Predictive dialing. Dialers compute the average of an operator becoming free and dial the next victim. Sometimes it's wrong and there is no operator avail for some seconds after you answer. Sometimes they are very wrong and you get tired of saying 'hello?' and hang up.
@Angle no actually! It's an "octopus dialer" it calls like 4 people and whoever picks up first it talks to and then hangs up on the rest. so you were beat by like a split second