I got a phone call that my Coinbase account was being hacked. (I closed that thing a few years ago, but that’s cool, let’s play.)
So I press 1 to get the scammer to call me.
He called and said he was from Google and that somebody was trying to change my Google phone number. I played along why not, right?
So we confirmed this and we confirmed that and he sent a code to my YouTube app. But the code never came because I don’t let YouTube send me notifications.
He tried again. It still didn’t come through. And sure we spent some time verifying that I was definitely on the correct YouTube.
So he pushed some button on his side and I got a text message. He asked me to read the code to ensure what the hell what do I care? I told him he was 553826 or something like that.
He does whatever he does on his end. Of course it doesn’t work. Give me a fucking break.
So you asked me to repeat it but there’s no way I could repeat the random number that I gave him a second ago so I told my I deleted the text message.
Then he freaks out, starts cursing, threatening me. Super spicy. 🌶️
It was hilarious.
I really think that we all should press one and waste as much of their time as we can.
Think about it from a distributed standpoint, we are doing a distributed denial of service on these fuckers.
Whatever time of theirs you can burn might be what it takes to prevent them from scamming someone else who doesn’t know better.
