This was very entertaining, I have taken a mental note. Although it wasn’t too difficult before AI.
Once someone called to sell Insurance, many years ago, and I said I hit a car with my rickshaw, the guy got out so I ran his son over, and now they’re wanting to sue me, and I don’t have insurance anyway so if he could sell me some. That phonecall went on for about five minutes before he hung up. I put on a really, really offensive Indian accent too.
My favourite one was when I had someone on the phone, for a similar length of time. What got me caught was when he asked where I was from. I said, in an equally offensive but generic Kenyan accent, “Tukukego”. He asked me to spell it, and I went “T. U… Kukego” (surprised he hasn’t realised by now it was a solid 6 minutes into the call). Then he asked me where that’s located, and I said to the right of Africa, but to the left of America. He called me a funny guy and hung up.
I miss Amazon Fresh, the physical store near me.
When they started up I’d just scan a barcode, walk in, and the whole idea was to just grab what you want off the shelf and walk out.
They had a LOT of cameras everywhere, and they claimed it was some AI thing checking what everyone is picking up, which then charges your account etc. (later found out it was just a bunch of guys in India looking at the cameras lol).
I got so many free things they just didn’t notice. I don’t know if it was the large jacket I was wearing, or something else, but I managed to get free meals almost every time I visited.
No guilt since it’s Amazon, and they replaced that store with a Tesco Express so everything worked out.