death mention, scam call baiting
@Siphonay@octodon.social it's pretty dark, but Miq's stepdad once got one of these guys pretty good when he was alive. (he passed v. recently, early this year)
One of those scammers called through and he picked up, let the guy go with his usual spiel then claimed to be a police officer, and that "Mr [his own name] has been murdered and I am conducting an investigation", sounding very official, and requesting he give information because he might need to be investigated.
death mention, scam call baiting
@Siphonay@octodon.social I SLIGHTLY feel bad for the guy because apparently he was immediately panicked and tripping over himself trying to say he wasn't involved he was just calling from a company and he didn't know him at all, but at the same time fuck scammers entirely and fuck the "companies" behind them especially.
death mention, scam call baiting
@Siphonay@octodon.social I'm still not sure how Miq's stepdad managed to keep a straight face while doing it too until the scammer hung up in a panic.