Don't Pickup The Phone

[greekmom]

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Follows the investigation into a hoax caller who convinced managers to strip-search employees at fast food businesses across the United States.

3 part docuseries dropped December 14, 2022

[libgirl2]

We watched it last weekend. I vaguely remember hearing about it when it was happening. I told my husband how stupid people are to believe some dude over the phone would have them strip search and sexually assault a young woman for a supposed theft! Why not hang up and call the real police. I honestly wonder if the torture that these women endured gave the managers some perverse pleasure. Almost like now they could indulge themselves in this behavior because someone said it was okay and even necessary. 

We were also saying how you could see in cases like Nazi Germany how people "just did what they were told", without thinking of what they were REALLY doing and the absolute lack of morality in it. 

Edited December 21, 2022 by libgirl2

[ALittleShelfish]

I don't remember this from whenever it happened - but I was intrigued with the whole "exactly how dumb and gullible can people be?" aspect.  Couldn't get thru the first episode.   I felt so awful for Louise and wanted to jump thru the screen (and apparently... time?) to protect her.  

[gaPeach]

I watched this with disbelief and horror.  Disbelief that the female manger (this is first episode of taped search) never once stopped to think that leaving a NAKED underaged girl in the office with a male, manager's BF no less, was not police work.  I fault the young girl zero fault.  She was a victim of not only the caller but her dumbass manager and her pedophile boyfriend.  I wish they did a more Indepth series on just that one incident.  I have questions:

1. Did manager stay with her raping, butt slapping boyfriend?  I was beyond stunned when the BF followed the directions to place the girl over his lap and spank her.  WTF!!!  

2. Female manager really left naked underaged girl in office with bf.  What was she thinking?

3. How did jury not find the caller guilty of something?

[libgirl2]

45 minutes ago, gaPeach said:

I watched this with disbelief and horror.  Disbelief that the female manger (this is first episode of taped search) never once stopped to think that leaving a NAKED underaged girl in the office with a male, manager's BF no less, was not police work.  I fault the young girl zero fault.  She was a victim of not only the caller but her dumbass manager and her pedophile boyfriend.  I wish they did a more Indepth series on just that one incident.  I have questions:

1. Did manager stay with her raping, butt slapping boyfriend?  I was beyond stunned when the BF followed the directions to place the girl over his lap and spank her.  WTF!!!  

2. Female manager really left naked underaged girl in office with bf.  What was she thinking?

3. How did jury not find the caller guilty of something?

1- From what I read, the female manager did NOT stay with her BF. 

2- she wasn't. She is a moron. 

3- agree 100%. He should have gotten something. I understand that he wasn't there but impersonating an authority figure and telling people to do things is still a crime. If he would have said to get a gun and shoot someone, would that be okay? 

[barhamyn]

On 5/1/2023 at 1:43 PM, bomberman said:

How do you protect yourself from scammers? Simply, if a person calls you and introduces himself as a police officer, for example, there is an immediate sense of alarm, but not because of the fact that an unknown person called us, but because we are convinced that the person who speaks to us is a police officer and therefore we are expecting something bad. But in fact, it is the very real scammer, who has deliberately misled you with his fake image to get what he wants, whether it is your personal data, bank cards or something else important. So you should always think about how to protect yourself. For example, I use VoIP numbers from https://www.mightycall.com/vanity-phone-number/ because I know that these numbers are more secure than conventional ones. And other methods of data protection.

It seems to me that it would be cheaper and easier to just learn to distinguish between a real employee and a crook.