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Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time

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706 points ortusdux | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 16:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.507s | source
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burger_moon ◴[14 Nov 24 22:25 UTC] No.42141859[source]▶
I applied for a mortgage today through my bank. Before the automated “next steps” email could hit my inbox my phone was already ringing and ringing and ringing. About 10 minutes straight of automated spam callers that are watching who knows what public ledger on now.

I guess it pretty much means retiring this number next year. I’ve inly had the number a little over a year and the spam has slowly crept up despite best efforts to give fake numbers where possible.

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1. Pikamander2 ◴[14 Nov 24 23:01 UTC] No.42142172[source]▶
We accidentally registered a domain once without the privacy setting enabled and proceeded to get dozens of spam/scam calls about it over the next few months.
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2. Scoundreller ◴[15 Nov 24 08:07 UTC] No.42144834[source]▶
Do registrars verify the numbers?

Might put the number of someone I don’t like first; then flip the privacy setting and fix the number