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Riffing on Scam Call Centers and Refinancing Covid Victims
from #209 - Don't Curse Me | The Tim Dillon Show · #209
2 min
Tim improvises an elaborate scam call script combining covid testing, mortgage refinancing, and eventually kidnapping, mocking how easily people fall for these calls.
- Tim mocks the anti-business attitude: 'shame on her, how dare she' for discouraging men like himself from earning a living.
- Scammers are using COVID contact tracing to run cons, which Tim finds darkly funny.
- Tim performs the opening pitch: 'listen, it's never an easy call to make' — falsely alerting someone to COVID exposure.
- The scam pivots to offering COVID tests for seven payments of $69.99, then immediately pivots again to refinancing the victim's mortgage.
- Closer: 'can we help you streamline some of your debt and refinance that property in Florida while we're testing your family for COVID?'