At this point, let us all pause for a bit of spammer entertainment and read, or re-read, the sad tale of Releasha Jones, the spamee who could never escape:
Let me tell you the story of Ms. Releasha Jones.
When I worked for a medical office in Houston (2007-2010), one of my responsibilities was managing the call center. And during times of heavy call traffic, I would take overflow calls myself. For whatever reason, this office got a ton of scam and solicitor calls. The whole gamut: pest control, medical supplies, insurance, business loans, the infamous “toner scam,” legitimate (but still annoying) toner salespeople, everything. It was profoundly ir…
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Usual practice, approved by me, was simply to hang up on these people. Because the hang-up button on our phones said RELEASE , one of my employees, an African-American girl, started referring to hanging up on someone as “transferring to Releasha.” (In Houston, that would have been a not at all implausible name for an African-American woman, so it really was pretty damned funny.)
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