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    From August Abolins@1:153/757 to All on Fri Apr 29 12:13:06 2022
    I've been getting more and more calls that go like this.. THEM: "hello, what are your hours?" ME: Mo-Fr 10-5, Sa 10-4, Sundays, closed." THEM: "I'm, sorry.. I didn't quite get that". ME: (I basically repeat that). THEM: "so, you're open Sunday to Monday?". WTF, I hang up. The "bot" sounds very
    convincingly human.

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  • From Jas Hud@1:129/305 to August Abolins on Sun May 1 10:47:17 2022
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    I've been getting more and more calls that go like this.. THEM: "hello, wh are your hours?" ME: Mo-Fr 10-5, Sa 10-4, Sundays, closed." THEM: "I'm, sorry.. I didn't quite get that". ME: (I basically repeat that). THEM: "so you're open Sunday to Monday?". WTF, I hang up. The "bot" sounds very convincingly human.



    IT'S A GHOST

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  • From Alejandro Filimonchuk@4:900/102 to Jas Hud on Mon May 9 14:50:39 2022
    IT'S A GHOST

    Ghost in a shell... :)

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  • From Stas Mishchenkov@2:460/5858 to August Abolins on Tue May 10 06:23:52 2022
    Hi, August!

    29 a>a 22 12:13, August Abolins -> All:

    I've been getting more and more calls that go like this.. THEM:
    "hello,
    what are your hours?" ME: Mo-Fr 10-5, Sa 10-4, Sundays, closed." THEM: "I'm, sorry.. I didn't quite get that". ME: (I basically repeat that). THEM: "so, you're open Sunday to Monday?". WTF, I hang up. The "bot" sounds very convincingly human.

    Don't you think that an ordinary person can be so stupid? ;)

    Have nice nights.
    Stas Mishchenkov.

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Stas Mishchenkov on Tue May 10 22:21:00 2022
    Hello Stas!

    ** On Tuesday 10.05.22 - 06:23, you wrote to me:

    "I'm, sorry.. I didn't quite get that". ME: (I basically
    repeat that). THEM: "so, you're open Sunday to Monday?".
    WTF, I hang up. The "bot" sounds very convincingly
    human.

    Don't you think that an ordinary person can be so stupid?
    ;)

    Like I said.. the voice was VERY human-like and not robotic at
    all. I imagine that the call was part of a mass-scale
    experiment/test. It is NOT the first time this happened. I had
    a similar call a few months ago - the conversation went longer
    at that time! - and the entity eventually identified that they
    were representing Google.

    --
    ../|ug

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  • From Joe Phigan@1:305/3 to Stas Mishchenkov on Sat May 14 07:00:16 2022
    Don't you think that an ordinary person can be so stupid? ;)

    "This is Lenny..."

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