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1. Michael Busch (michael_w_busch@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 18:17:18 UTC Michael Busch

   • Robert McNees

   @kenwhite.bsky.social

   This seems like @mcnees 's story of the time a scammer called a judge's house pretending that the judge had issued a warrant for his own arrest.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 18:17:17 UTC Robert McNees

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     @michael_w_busch @kenwhite.bsky.social Yeah, that was embarrassing for that scammer, I think. He called the house saying the city judge had signed an arrest warrant for my dad. It was for an unpaid debt, that we could clear up right there on the phone if I had a credit card handy. But my dad *was* the city judge. I imagine the other guys at the scam call center really clowning him for that.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 18:22:03 UTC Robert McNees

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     @michael_w_busch @kenwhite.bsky.social But I tried to make it a teachable moment and have a dialog about craft. Like, did the call have to go that way? Was he really bringing his A-game, or was he just going through the motions? What would it look like if he took some pride in his work? And how did he think *I* felt, knowing that he was half-assing the scam? I deserve more than that.

     Anyway, he got really flustered and hung up, after telling me his employee number was “1-2-3-4-f-u-c-k-y-o-u.”