{"id":14264,"date":"2018-02-11T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T01:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14264"},"modified":"2018-02-11T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T01:40:10","slug":"hobby-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/11\/hobby-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobby Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-intersect\/wp\/2018\/02\/08\/internet-scammers-are-terrible-this-troll-is-their-nightmare\/?utm_term=.8930ad783e3b&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From<\/a> <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a call center, somewhere on Earth, a telephone rang. John picked up. On the other end of the line was a man who spoke in a preposterously fake Russian accent and introduced himself as \u201cVicktor Viktoor,\u201d which was not his real name.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very possible that John used a fake name, too, as the call center was in actuality an Internet scam headquarters \u2014 something \u201cVicktor\u201d knew very well, though he had no intention of telling John right away.<\/p>\n<p>Not for hours, if he could help it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, waste scammers&#8217; time. I&#8217;ve been contemplating constructing an interview form for use with scammers. When a scammer calls about my computer, the idea is to override their desires and begin answering questions. Perhaps give them a &#8216;promise&#8217; that once the interview is over, they may ask their questions, but in the meantime, Mr &#8230; Jones, for purely statistical purposes, I need to know your age? Income level? Educational level?<\/p>\n<p>See how far I can drag it out.<\/p>\n<p>I once asked a scammer if his mother was ashamed of what he was doing. He said he was very ashamed, but he was desperate for money. Persistent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WaPo: In a call center, somewhere on Earth, a telephone rang. John picked up. On the other end of the line was a man who spoke in a preposterously fake Russian accent and introduced himself as \u201cVicktor Viktoor,\u201d which was not his real name. It\u2019s very possible that John \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/11\/hobby-of-the-day\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14265,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions\/14265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}