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How about a message to a co-worker telling him that he was going to be audited by the IRS and to call his local branch?😉
 
🙂 I just put in someones random telepone # and told them to contact the bank about their acount being $237,000.00 in the hole.

Im going to call the inlaws at 3am to tell them good morning from santa clause and they better be good cause Im watching you!
 
Dude, it's cool to use this service for fun and all but just be careful.

It's ok to make someone piss in their pants but don't make someone fear for their life (bomb/terrorist threats).
 
Years ago when I had a mac (which have had good text to speech built in for about 15 years) I would call friends and leave weird computer messages by holding the phone up to the computer speaker. The best was that if I typed fast enough I could reply to what they said in the same voice, totally freaked them out. If I did this now they would just assume it was me on the computer again.
 
what is the "LEGIT" use of this service ?

> How about a message to a co-worker telling him that he was going to be audited by the IRS and to call his local branch?
LOL

good social engineering skill...

or u can pretend that u ARE the IRS auditor and this is an automated msg from the IRS branch and ask the victim to called u back to "verify" his info... ???

then a lot of fun will be followed...

msg under 150 words..

<hi, this is xxx calling from the IRS xxx office. we have a problem with your IRS filing. u can reach me at 123-456-7890 to disscuss about it>

thanks
 


<< Hmm the bomb threat and the bank thing are really good. For the bomb threat all you need to do is find a public computer. ^_^ Now. . . any other pranks? >>



Bomb threats are never cool. First, you will get in extreme amounts of trouble for doing this and it is a crime. Secondly, it's just stupid to phone in a bomb threat. It causes panic and wastes public use of police and such.
 
I had it call my girlfriend. She was in the rrom with me and it called and said "I'm watching you. You look really good in that blue sweatshirt. Don't try to get away, resistance is futile."

SHe handed me the phone and said "Oh my god listen to this". I started laughing right away because I didn't want to let it go too far. It took a little while for her to calm down though.
 
lol, that was hilarious, i just pulled a prank on my roommate. of course i didn't use my name and used another one of my suitemate's name. ^_^x
 
When on earth are they going to replace the default voice I have heard in the mid 90s with a better one?
 
anyone remember dr. sbaitso! it came with the sound blaster pro?

btw- i love this sh!t ive been calling my friends all the time, im going to call ppl at like 3am next week with it.
 


<< worker telling him that he was going to be audited by the IRS and to call his local branch? >>



I did just the same yesterday to a coworker and he bought it 😀
 
"Hi Mr. XYZ

We regret to inform you that Your father was fatally injured in a car accident at 2:33am. Please come to the ABC Hospital at your soonest convenience."
 
>kinda odd service to be "free"... i bet it's a cheap way to harvest people's phone #'s for telemarketers

I guess this would indicate more active names than a phone book, plus they could say, I got your name and number from XXXXX.
Well NY has a law against telemarketers, so they can try to call me, but I will log and report them!
 
kinda odd service to be "free"... i bet it's a cheap way to harvest people's phone #'s for telemarketers.

I think they want businesses to sign up for their full package. This is just a free sample, and therefore limited by number of letters. This will allow business people to get their email messages over the phone.
 


<< "Hi Mr. XYZ

We regret to inform you that Your father was fatally injured in a car accident at 2:33am. Please come to the ABC Hospital at your soonest convenience." >>



That isn't very funny. It may be funny to you when they go driving to the hospital in tears, but that is an abuse of the system and is extremely stupid.
 


<< Well NY has a law against telemarketers, so they can try to call me, but I will log and report them! >>


Exactly! If you report which telemarketing company violates the law, you can get $1,000 reward.
 
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