OSF - 2.04 - scams - four seconds
I'm going to start off with some telephones scams. And, I suppose I should explain my four second rule.
If you call me, on the telephone, either landline or cell, and I answer and say hello, you've got four seconds to start saying something. If you don't, I'm going to hang up.
No, this isn't arbitrary. Four seconds seems to be the minimum time that it takes a typical telephone redirection switch to transfer the call that it has dialed, and that you have answered, to an operator or agent. (Presumably, it needs that much time to determine that the line has picked up and the call has been "answered," which is fairly easy, and that someone has said "hello," which is less easy. For a computer. See the series on AI.) If I'm calling a company, and my call is being redirected that way, of course I'm expecting it. But, if I'm at home, and the phone rings, and I pick it up, and there's four seconds of silence, it indicates that somebody is using a robot to call me. So, most of the time I just hang up. I don't want to talk to the robot.
Possibly the robot calling is part of a spam or scam. However, possibly the robot may be calling because it's part of some kind of telemarketing scheme. I don't want to talk to a telemarketer anyway. But, even if it's a legitimate business, if they're robot dialing me, I probably don't want to talk to them. I figure that if it's really important, eventually some person will call me. Or they'll send me an email, or something else. But anybody who is robot dialing me, and I don't know anything about it, I'm just going to hang up.
You have four seconds to respond.
Introduction and ToC: https://fibrecookery.blogspot.com/2026/02/online-scams-frauds-and-other-attacks.html
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