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Thousands of AI-powered calls allegedly aimed to discourage participation in last month's New Hampshire Primary.

On Tuesday morning, Formella stepped up to a podium and announced the calls came from Life Corporation and Walter Monk of Texas.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’ve spent a few minutes trying to figure out who Life Corporation and Walter Monk are. Walter Monk may be an “entrepreneur” in Texas, but that isn’t clear to me. What is clear is that “Life Corporation” has been incorporated since 1995 and has no internet presence as far as I can tell.

    This is shady as fuck before you even get to the illegal stuff.

    https://www.bbb.org/us/tx/arlington/profile/advertising-agencies/life-corporation-0825-95110149

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      All things considered, that’s a pretty quick setup for a long-running operation on foreign territory. Couldn’t have been easy when it’s only been about four years since the collapse of the USSR.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        See my full paste from the LinkedIn page @DrQuickbeam found, but here’s the key part:

        Then about 1990 I met up with an amazing set of leaders

        He never says who they are. Very suspicious.

        • NegativeNull@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          https://mycpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/

          Search for “Entity Name” of “Life Corporation”. From there, you can get a list of corporate leadership. CEO (when searched on linkedin) shows the CEO is also a CEO of:

          • Poll Makers,
          • Text to Survey
          • Voice Broadcasting

          It seems to be all surrounding a call-center. It all fits.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Oh that’s interesting. Not sure how that didn’t show up in my search. I had to log in to my ancient LinkedIn account to read it, but I’m glad I did, because…

        I really like starting businesses. You might say I am obsessed (or is it possessed? ) by this activity. I love helping others start businesses. I am a member of the Entrepreneurs Organization of Fort Worth, and I highly recommend this worldwide organization for any entrepreneur.

        In college majored in Wildlife Management, and soon discovered that the life of starting businesses was more fun than going to school. Some of the businesses that I started include gas stations, lobster trapping, a chain of nightclubs and bars, selling bait, a beef jerky plant, a dating service, credit card processing center, condom machine routes, and selling pool cues. Then about 1990 I met up with an amazing set of leaders that have made some of my ideas into very long lasting businesses. Together our team has done billions of phone calls, texts and and done a lot of political polling, nonprofit These all made at least some money except the lobster trapping…I never caught one lobster. I may go back to Hawaii and try that again, it still bothers me :-)

        Thank you.

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Then about 1990 I met up with an amazing set of leaders

          We would amuse ourselves by dressing like ghosts with pointy heads, and burning spare lumber after nailing it together in an X

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I’m guessing Life Corporation, if it ever actually existed, is dead in all but name.