Bogdan Botezatu

You know, scammers use very complex software to spoof their numbers.

They use voice over IP gateways.

to make it look like they're calling from the same country as you and so on.

So there's a lot of room for failure when involving this kind of call center grade software.

Sometimes calls hang up, there's glitches that put the speaker, the operator on pause and so on.

So probably there's a technical error that prevents the cyber criminal from getting in touch with you.

The other one is, well, I'd say a superstition of mine.

How do you answer your phone?

With hello?

Yes, maybe?

No, I answer like this.

Who is this?

Sorry, go ahead.

Okay, fair enough.

Because some people in some geographies, for instance, they will answer with not hello, but yes.

Most of Europe has yes as an opening line when you're getting called.

What happens if somebody is building a massive database of words, of yes, of acknowledgments, of confirmations?

Like, if I'm answering my phone and somebody records me saying yes to them, where can they play that back to bypass some sort of authentication or confirm a choice of mine?

Well, voice is biometrics, right?

And sometimes saying yes to something becomes contractual, like it substitutes your signature.