Spammers take it to the next level
Heres a situation that happened to me recently.Last Friday, I was checking through my voicemail which was the first time in what seemed like forever and for some reason my phone doesn't tell me that there are any messages, just if I missed calls. So as I was listening to the messages, I got one from this guy named Ryan on the 18th who said he was calling me back about a part time job and to give a call back at this number which is local to me. I found it strange that he didn't tell me what I had applied for or what company he was working. Nonetheless, I was curious so I called back, left a message and expected a call back on Monday.
Sure enough he called me back this morning and left me another message to call back by noon, so I called again and finally got on the phone with him, the first thing he asked me was if I was looking for full or part time work, I said part time then he asked if I was working now, I said yes then he wanted to know where. As a sidenote, I am pretty protective of just telling anyone where I work so I said "politics" and he wanted to get more specific. I finally had to interrupt him and ask who he was, who he worked for and what he did, all of which he failed to inform me about when he answered the phone. I had to repeat the question twice before he finally told me.
Somewhere along the way I thought I heard "medical sales" and "telemarketing" and realized I never applied for any job in that field and just hung up in the middle of his little pitch.
Okay dumbass, first of all how are you going to try and sell me on this mystery job without even telling me in your 2 voicemail messages what exactly you do? All it does is make you sound incredibly shady which in fact you really turned out to be.
Oh, and a gold star for trying to fish out as much information about me as you could before I started questioning you right back. What did you want know next? my SSN? my bank account #? fuck my sister?
I guess I didn't expect this to happen over the phone but I suppose people wised up to deleting email so they're only taking it to the next level. I'm thinking this person may have gotten my information from my monster.com account which really hasn't done anything for me. Has anyone out there EVER had luck with those online job sites?
Oh well, fool me once shame on you...
Unless you're George Bush, you know how the rest of it goes.
posted by lojus @ 12:11 PM
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