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by jancsika 404 days ago
> Yuck all round.

Yes, but also it's an impressive digital Jedi mind trick on a website.

signs a question mark with hand

"This is the support number you're looking for."

And the victim is extra primed here because so many companies make it nearly impossible to talk to a human. Yikes!

Almost seems like there's room here for a grey hat to come in and use this trick to do a good faith job trying to help the customer through their problem. Then tell them at the end that a recent anti-trust suit requires them to tell the customer about alternate independent venues in their area where they can support live music.

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> Then tell them at the end that a recent anti-trust suit requires them to...

Bonus points if you point to the actual anti-trust suit!

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...

> Almost seems like there's room here for a grey hat to come in and ...

... call the scam numbers to tie up their staff and prevent them from talking to potential victims. Someone like Kitboga could do this at scale. Where there's a phone number, there's a way.