Archive for May, 2006
Stock Market Telephone Spam
Thursday, May 18th, 2006Over the past month I’ve gotten a number of calls on my cell phone from guys with thick russian accents, and they always ask for the ‘manager’ and then proceed to tell me about an opportunity on the american stock market.
I always tell them to go away, piss off, leave me alone, etc etc.
It happened again today and got me to thinking I should write about it a bit at least. Anybody else getting these things? They’re akin to the fax-spam offering the same deals on up and coming hot stocks and so forth.
I never would have thought a non-automated scam would happen with actual people making phone calls to potential victims. OK, maybe there’s an automated dialer and voice recognition system involved that then shunts live-answered calls back to a few operators.
Anyways…. most annoying.