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carapace on Nov 3, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

My mom still has a land-line. She gets multiple calls a day, robots trying to steal an old lady's money. For this we invented the telephone? the transistor?

pixl97 on Nov 3, 2022 [–]

Honestly the internet has a lot to do with this problem too, stealing VOIP accounts and spoofing caller ID has enabled a lot of this.

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