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Overseas Crooks Abuse TTY Phone Service
Rick Zeman writes "The Arizona Daily Star is reporting on how 419 scammers and credit card thieves are abusing the US' TTY service which enables hearing-impaired citizens to make phone calls with the help of an intermediary operator. 'The callers try to use stolen credit-card numbers to make big purchases of merchandise from American companies. The operators often suspect fraud, but they can't just hang up. Federal rules require them to make the calls and keep the contents strictly confidential.' Yes, Virginia, they have no shame...."
Ignorance is truly sad. Dumb by definition is to be without speech. You on the other hand fit into the second definition of dumb, to be lacking in mental capacity.
You know the first few times I had a disabled person come to my store and ask me to help him get his wheelchair up the steps and inside I took them seriously.
But now I just can't be bothered by that waste of time. And to think they want ME to put in a ramp so they can get in here.
Waste...of...goddamn...time. Pushing them over into the street usually helps them to not want to come back too.
"We want to take over the world, but we don't want to do it tomorrow, it's OK if it's next week"-- Linus Torvalds