Shouldn't be difficult if these calls were really made.
Shouldn't be difficult if these calls were really made.
This report has been up for some time now and we don't have confirmation, so it looks like a wild goose story. Possibly someone (or a few people) got a crank call along these lines and the story has taken off.
But FWIW, automatic dialers can tell the difference between live pickups and answering machines. They can be set to leave a message or not, depending on the campaign. Getting a recording of this message (again, if such a campaign is indeed underway) is not necessarily semi-automatic.