Drabble by Kevin Fagan for February 24, 2023

Naturally, Ralph is not smart enough to stop him.

Next, he’ll meet Mr. Malware, Reddy Ransomware, and Troy Trojan.

I’m pretty sure Norman is just yanking everyone’s chain.

I get texts from Spam Risk, too! He’s a security officer at PayPal. He just needs your PayPal password to make sure everything is working.

Missing the days when “spam risk” only meant that someone didn’t cook it properly!

ha ha ha! :D

I keep getting calls from Spam Likely even after I have blocked him hundreds and hundreds of times.

I know a woman who will answer the calls and allow the huckster on the other end to make their pitch because she feels its rude not to answer or if answered, it would be inconsiderate to interrupt them. She also complains about the number of spam calls she gets.

Unless I’m waiting for a call from a repair technician or a similar type call, if I don’t know the number, I don’t answer it. If it’s important, then whomever can leave me a message.

My phone doesn’t classify a spam call as such until after the robot hangs up. Rather useless, but I don’t answer unknown numbers anyway.

I get Potential Spam. I like those calls as I don’t need to answer. I have a friend that does though, he’s somewhat like Norm at times.

I’m definitely getting a lot of these more recently over the last few months. I do like to mess with some of them sometimes though. See how long they’ll stay on the call before they realise I’m taking the mickey.

Take that phone away and give him a slap upside the head!

Dumb and Dumber

We sold our house and moved to a different state last year. I am still getting calls about selling that house. I usually avoid any calls from that area code unless they are on my contact list. The one call I did answer I told them they need to get a new list.

I once got a call from someone doing exactly what Norman did. The spammers are smart enough to trick the phone system into showing a different phone number

Profoundly brilliant. If parents would just stop doing it.

Well, he couldn’t risk missing out on spam.

I’m not sure there is a Norman proof phone.

Just attended a class about the risk of hacks and other information warfare originating in China, presumably with a goal of world dominance. Though I am not sure what they could gain by following me.