Episode 343 Livestream Recap
{343} Tuesday, August 23, 2022 – 2 p.m. ET
The Return of 25%!!!
Jessica’s Bestie & Margaret’s Stranger…
Stream Timestamp [00:26:23]
Margaret vs John Bradford (Mr. Johnson) & Clara Wilson & Edward CONT
Started the timer at 4hr 12min 12sec from yesterday’s call.
Refund amount $800 for an iPhone
TeamViewer was used.
Clara said that the hackers are from Dayton, OH. Margaret lives in Dayton. Clara is confused by this. Clara said that Margaret must connect with Amazon secure server.
Margaret: “Well, then close it down, honey! Shut it down. I don’t want the damn thing. […] Throw it in the damn dustbin. I don’t want my stuff there. […] I wanna take my Amazon account and put it on a little raft and light it on fire and send it off to sea. I don’t want the damn thing. Just burn it. Burn it down!”
MelonBuddy Translation: Someone in the background is telling her to stay on with you.
Margaret: “Your actions speak louder than your words. I don’t care what’s coming out of your mouth!”
Clara attempted to purchase an Xbox card on Margaret’s Amazon account.
Margaret: “You don’t want me to get off my rocking chair because I will come down there, honey.”
Margaret: “Listen to me when your elders are talking to you. Do you have any manners?”
Margaret told Clara that she called a few months ago and had her remove everything from her account.
Margaret: “I told you I don’t care who you are. Do I need your information? Is it relevant for anything? You tell me.”
Margaret: “Why do I ever want to talk to you again? Just fix the problem and then we can be strangers for the rest of our lives like god intended it to be.”
MelonBuddy Translation: The guy in the background is saying that it’s yesterday’s customer.
We were transferred to Edward.
Margaret: “What’s it like being a dirty, filthy rat?”
Margaret: “I just want to get in my rocking chair and read a good book. Damn it!”
Margaret: “You’re not my significant other. I don’t want to spend the whole day with you.”
Edward kept typing “q” for some completely unexplained reason. He claimed it wasn’t him and that it was a problem with Margaret’s keyboard.
Margaret: “You are from the sewer, a dirty rat, a cockaroach, a mother toad, a benchode.”
Margaret: “You are lying through your broken teeth.”
Edward booped.
After booping, Margaret searched “dirty rat” and made it so Edward could see her search results.
Total Time Wasted: 5hr 03min 30sec
My Precious?
Stream Timestamp [01:28:33]
Returning the call to a missed number.
Jessica vs Gollum -Amazon
Refund amount $1,299
Order was placed from Dayton, OH.
He booped. Likely the same call center we were just speaking with.
Total Time Wasted: 4min 08sec
I Have That Power Over You?
Stream Timestamp [01:39:31]
Returned call to David from yesterday. John answered.
Jessica Wilson vs John (Mr. Smoogle / Mugle) & Alex Martin & Miguel & Kevin Cooper -Norton
UltraViewer was used.
Refund amount: $399 twice = $800
“Accidental” refund amount $8,000
Overpayment $7,200
Smoogle had found the hackers and said he would extract the virus. Rinoa disconnected UltraViewer but didn’t tell us why.
We were transferred to accounts manager, Alex Martin. Alex said that nobody has ever spoken to him with such a sweet voice. Alex said that he’s going to marry his mom and dad.
Jessica: “You’re learning homeschooled sex ed from your parents. Right?”
F7 strikes again!
Alex: “Don’t put the decimal. OK? The decimal is not working.”
As soon as Jessica entered her refund amount, the 25% screen came up. Rinoa composed a lengthy, touching speech in honor of the return of the 25% screen. Her feelings run deep for the golden number of numbers. She has now replaced her favorite number 13 with the glorious presence of the number 25. She waxed poetic over the gorgeousness of the number 25%.
Alex: “By mistakely, the zero is coming.”
Jessica was very sorry for the mistake.
Jessica: “I hope you accept my apology. And if you find it in your heart not to accept my apology, I might have to throw a lawnmower in your direction or cut holes in all of your tshirts.”
Jessica: “Your job is in my hands, so I have that power over you?”
Alex asked Jessica to go to the bank to withdraw cash.
Jessica: “On a scale of 1 to 10, how creepy are you? Are you a professional or just part time?”
Alex: “I’m a professional.”
Alex: “Your voice is look like my mom voice.”
Alex went silent for a while. When he came back, he told Jessica that he had gone to the toilet as if he thought she actually wanted that information.
MelonBuddy Translation: She has an Instagram ID, I guess.
Alex asked for Jessica’s Instagram ID but wouldn’t give his. So, Jessica wouldn’t give him her ID. Alex continued to get creepier, expressing interest in getting slapped in the face and talking about how deep his voice is.
We got in the blue car and went to the bank. We withdrew the cash from the bank. Alex said that he wanted a photo of the money. Jessica said that she needed to get a photo of him before she would send him a photo of her.
Alex asked Jessica for her home address, but she didn’t want him to come to her house. Alex asked Jessica to go to CVS and buy American Express gift cards for $4,000. Jessica was confused since she owed him more than $4,000. He wanted each gift card to be $500.
Alex started spouting religiousness, ridiculous considering that he was saying these things in the hopes of stealing money. Jessica found his statements to be rude.
Alex: “That sounds like something a rat would say.”
Alex: “Please apologize my sorry.”
Jessica thought that they were going to meet up to give Alex the money. When he said that they would never meet up, Jessica got suspicious. She figured out that he is a scammer and asked him why he does what he does.
Jessica: “Why are you only after money?”
Jessica: “What if somebody did that to your mom?”
Alex continued asking Jessica to go to the CVS. She finally relented.
Jessica: “Rise and shine, sunshine!”
Alex didn’t listen to or respond to what Jessica was saying but he still thought that Jessica was the first person who had ever spoken to him nicely in five years.
Jessica: “To have a full-on conversation with you would be a waste of my time.”
Alex was born in California and his parents were born in the Czech Republic. When Jessica asked about where Alex was born, specifically, he said that her voice was breaking up.
Jessica: “Cut the lies. The lies stop now.”
Alex said he would tell his friends to go to the beach and the gardens if they traveled to San Francisco. But he didn’t know any specific landmark, which made Jessica more suspicious.
Jessica: “You’re not who you say you are.”
Alex said that he worked for PayPal, but he had said he worked for Norton earlier in the call. Jessica called him out on it.
Jessica: “Who ARE you?!”
Alex booped when Jessica wouldn’t accept his BS answers. Miguel called us back. Jessica told him that Alex hung up on her. Miguel asked Jessica to either get gift cards or go to deposit into a BitCoin machine. Miguel confirmed that he worked for Norton, not PayPal as Alex had claimed.
We were transferred to assistant head manager, Kevin Cooper.
He said to purchase either American Express cards or Vanilla Visa cards. He said that we can’t do a PayPal transfer for such a large amount.
Jessica: “Why do you bring your nasty booty on the phone right now? Just snorting, droolin’. You’re nasty, Kevin!”
Kevin stopped responding, so we booped.
Total Time Wasted: 2hr 12min 35sec
Printers are a Scam…
Stream Timestamp [04:02:35]
Jessica Wilson vs Kevin ThisSide -HP Support
Her Deskjet2600 was not installing. Kevin said that she needed to buy drivers:
1 year drivers package & unlimited technical support $149.99
3 year drivers package & unlimited technical support $220.99
Jessica felt that this plan was insane since it was so much more money than the printer had cost in the first place. She said that she felt this was a scam of a plan. She was just frustrated because she just wanted the drivers without the technical support.
Kevin: “If I install the drivers without cleaning up your computer first, the drivers will not be working.”
Jessica agreed to purchase the 1-year plan since she didn’t feel that she had any choice but to get the printer to work.
Kevin told Jessica to leave her computer alone and that he would have the work done in 2-3 hours. We booped.
Total Time Wasted: 23min 22sec
The Face of Pure Joy…
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