OK, for those who don't know, we now require all users of the relay service to be registered. Of course this is an attempt to reduce the number of people who use the service to commit fraud. Some fraud people still slip past our nets (well, we figure it out pretty quickly what they are up to, but those are few and far between that we don't stop before the registration process is complete).
I actually enjoy getting the scammers... because some of them will actually try to outsmart me, and it's a fun little game (fun because most of them have no idea what tools we have at our disposal
). The most common trick is claiming that they have a pending registration with another company... not counting on the fact that we can call other companies to verify... I will give those guys credit, if I didn't know that's how we operated I wouldn't think that would happen either. Tonight though I got someone who truly insulted my intelligence.
He told me his name was, and I have no problem quoting it sense it was so obviously fake, "djdjdj fkfkfk"... exactly like that, no caps, no vowels, so obviously fake that I had a hard time taking him serious... honestly, do you think we aren't going to flag that as suspicious...
So I pulled up google to check the address (i'm technically not supposed to do this, but I only did it because it was already suspicious)... ok, so I only checked the zip code against the city... wouldn't you guess, the zip code he gave me wasn't from the city he gave me... not even the same state (not the same city doesn't mean much, I routinely give people a different city than what google pulls up for my city, not because of fraud, but because that cities post office is the one that I get deliveries from even though I'm not technically in that city). I'm willing to bet the rest of the address was bogus too... not that it matters with an obvious fake name and a zip code that doesn't even match the state.
And yes, I did refuse to process the registration and did block the caller from placing calls.
I actually enjoy getting the scammers... because some of them will actually try to outsmart me, and it's a fun little game (fun because most of them have no idea what tools we have at our disposal

He told me his name was, and I have no problem quoting it sense it was so obviously fake, "djdjdj fkfkfk"... exactly like that, no caps, no vowels, so obviously fake that I had a hard time taking him serious... honestly, do you think we aren't going to flag that as suspicious...
So I pulled up google to check the address (i'm technically not supposed to do this, but I only did it because it was already suspicious)... ok, so I only checked the zip code against the city... wouldn't you guess, the zip code he gave me wasn't from the city he gave me... not even the same state (not the same city doesn't mean much, I routinely give people a different city than what google pulls up for my city, not because of fraud, but because that cities post office is the one that I get deliveries from even though I'm not technically in that city). I'm willing to bet the rest of the address was bogus too... not that it matters with an obvious fake name and a zip code that doesn't even match the state.
And yes, I did refuse to process the registration and did block the caller from placing calls.
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