[phreaking, tech] Aww, that was going to be hilarious
Longtime readers will know that I have various little projects involving computer mediated SMS. For instance, when the hitherto free appointment reminder service I used to remind patients of their appointments moved to an exorbitant fee structure, I ported the number to Twilio and wrote my own.
Anyways, one of my automated numbers started getting vmails and texts from realtors. Apparently somebody has an apartment to show and the wrong number got entered into some system that distributed it to many different realtors. I've been notifying them that they have a wrong number, because they were texting a commercial automated SMS system, and I was pretty sure the computer didn't have an apartment to show. But one jackass (1) texted back asking who was texting them, and (2) then sent another, "I have another showing at 3pm" text the next day.
I didn't respond to the first text reply because, goddamn, I did you a solid wasting my time notifying you you weren't reaching the party you were trying to reach instead of just adding you to my > /dev/null filter and you have the termerity to ask for more of my time and attention; and none of your everloving business, asshole. But when the second, idiotic, text came in, first I was annoyed... then I was inspired: Thank you! You are now subscribed to the [XYZ] alert system! Charges may apply. To end your subscription, text END to [thisnumber] at any time.
I then scampered off to Twitter to find a source of rapidly updating celebrity gossip. You want to waste my money sending texts to what you've been told is a wrong number? Fine. You get to receive an SMS about it every time a Kardashian sneezes.
Alas, I got an "END" text back before I managed to even load twitter.com/ohnotheydidnt into a browser. I am disappoint.
But there's reason to hope! It is not impossible that the guy is so dumb that he doesn't realize that the number he got the subscription notification from was a number he himself texted, that he has not updated his contact information for the person he's trying to reach, and that he'll text the number about a showing again. In which case it is on.
If I didn't have so much else to do today! I am seriously tempted to automate this such that if opportunity presents, I can just echo "$hisphonenumber" >> ontdsubscribers and, voila!
Anyways, one of my automated numbers started getting vmails and texts from realtors. Apparently somebody has an apartment to show and the wrong number got entered into some system that distributed it to many different realtors. I've been notifying them that they have a wrong number, because they were texting a commercial automated SMS system, and I was pretty sure the computer didn't have an apartment to show. But one jackass (1) texted back asking who was texting them, and (2) then sent another, "I have another showing at 3pm" text the next day.
I didn't respond to the first text reply because, goddamn, I did you a solid wasting my time notifying you you weren't reaching the party you were trying to reach instead of just adding you to my > /dev/null filter and you have the termerity to ask for more of my time and attention; and none of your everloving business, asshole. But when the second, idiotic, text came in, first I was annoyed... then I was inspired: Thank you! You are now subscribed to the [XYZ] alert system! Charges may apply. To end your subscription, text END to [thisnumber] at any time.
I then scampered off to Twitter to find a source of rapidly updating celebrity gossip. You want to waste my money sending texts to what you've been told is a wrong number? Fine. You get to receive an SMS about it every time a Kardashian sneezes.
Alas, I got an "END" text back before I managed to even load twitter.com/ohnotheydidnt into a browser. I am disappoint.
But there's reason to hope! It is not impossible that the guy is so dumb that he doesn't realize that the number he got the subscription notification from was a number he himself texted, that he has not updated his contact information for the person he's trying to reach, and that he'll text the number about a showing again. In which case it is on.
If I didn't have so much else to do today! I am seriously tempted to automate this such that if opportunity presents, I can just echo "$hisphonenumber" >> ontdsubscribers and, voila!