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I get cold calls from recruiters about twice a week at this point. I try to be
polite, but they're wasting my time and theirs. It's annoying, and I'm tired of
it. The vast majority of the time that my phone rings with a mystery phone
number, it's one of these guys' desperate pleas for my business.
So when the phone rang yesterday morning with a 713 area code, I ignored it. I
was driving anyway, so I'm not going to argue with one of these morons while
Parker is busy reading in the back seat. I have better things to do and a
better example to set.
When I got to my voicemail, though, it turned out to be some collect call
service called Global Tel Link. Between the language of the call and the way
it was trying to direct me to a mechanism to pay with a credit card, I
immediately thought it was a scam. My first look at their website convinced me
of this, but they do seem to have some history online. Whether its an
engineered history, I don't know, but I wouldn't expect a company to do a Search
Engine Optimization pass using fake web pages that made them out to have a
customer service record that made Experian or AT&T look like something godly and
mythological.
At any rate, I've received a number of callbacks from these guys claiming that I
have an incoming call from the "Marathon County Jail," though I can't take the
call. I have to pay by credit card first. Not the most useful system. I would
guess that this refers to the City of Marathon in Brewster County, Texas
instead of Marathon County in Wisconsin (which, oddly enough, contains a city
named "Texas.") Contrarily, the corrections facility in Marathon is the
"Brewster County Jail."
Anyway, on the off chance that I actually know someone who is in Texas or
Wisconsin and found themselves in trouble with the law, I did my usual
cyber-sleuthing, made some phone calls, and came up blank. I'm guessing that
Global Tel Link had a glitch (engineering, or marketing, I wonder) that they'll
need to work out.
-rbarry
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