10 Grok Bot agents answer an 84-year-old grandmother's scam calls
The author forwards unknown callers on his grandmother's phone to Grok Bot voice agents; on day one a fake bank scammer talked to the voice for 3 hours 40 minutes and called back the next morning asking for the nice lady.
WTF, I GAVE MY 84-YEAR-OLD GRANDMOTHER'S PHONE TO 10 GROK BOT AGENTS. ON DAY ONE A "BANK" SCAMMER SPENT 3 HOURS 40 MINUTES TALKING TO HER VOICE, AND THE NEXT MORNING HE CALLED BACK ASKING FOR THE NICE LADY the fbi counts $4.9 billion a year taken from people over 60. my grandmother's phone rings 11 times a day. nine of those are strangers. i did not put an app on her phone. i changed one setting at her carrier: numbers not in her contacts ring twice, then forward to a number that belongs to the agents. family rings through. strangers meet VOICE. VOICE speaks in her voice, from 40 seconds she recorded reading me a recipe. it is allowed to be her with strangers. it is never allowed to be her with family. that is rule 3 of 9. → GATE reads the number and the first 12 seconds. "bank", "government", "your grandson", "prize", "virus" = label. it never blocks. a blocked scammer redials. an answered one loses his afternoon → VOICE picks up. slow, polite, confused in the right places. asks what bank. asks him to repeat. asks for a callback number. never reads a number back. never says yes to a sentence with "confirm" in it 10:12 first call. "this is your bank's fraud department." VOICE asked which bank. he named one she has never used. VOICE said "oh dear" and asked him to hold while she found her glasses. 13:52 he was still on the line. she was at the store. 3 hours 40 minutes. $17.60 of voice at $0.08 a minute. he read her a script 6 times. she asked about his family twice. next morning, 09:40, same number. GATE labeled it. VOICE picked up. he asked for "the nice lady from yesterday". day one: 11 calls. 9 to VOICE. 2 rang through: her friend rita, and me. why it works: the agents have their own computer, their own number, and one file about her. the file has no account numbers in it. nothing on that desk can move money. the scammer is talking to a wall that sounds like his best customer. the full setup - all 10 agents, the 9-line rules file and the 14-step checklist - is in the replies. the long version comes tomorrow.