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[turkeyfeathers]

Do you folks get an absurd amount  of BS phone calls ? We get numerous ones each day on home phone and I get several on cell every day. If we don't recognize # we don't answer.  I've blocked a lot on cell but same one keeps coming thru on different local numbers. Even opted out last year,

Yesterday was classic but guessing it was only a wrong #   " Is this Pedro?"   Me: "yes it is , did you vote for me ?"   and hung up   (Napolean Dynamite reference )

I've told them to hang on one second, put phone down and walked away. I wonder how long they held on for

I've won so many cruise trips it's scary. All they want is my CC #   The automated ones are the best and very easy to hang up on if I do actually answer.

[moog5050]

You mean I didn't win a cruise!

[ny hunter]

If I do not know the number I well not even answer the phone...I really don't answer the phone anyway drives my wife crazy....lol

[Moho81]

I only have a cell phone. And I try my best not to use the phone functionality of the cell phone.


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[growalot]

Yes and now I rarely answer the phone...  when I do I say so and so speaking may I help you? This freaks them out...they have strict rules about calling a business..most hang up and some ask if I'm a business...then they start their line...I'm going to be honest here, some get a bite me  ..and I hang up...Some I will allow to go through their whole line...then hang up ...because I tried getting on those no call list..it doesn't work.

[fasteddie]

I get calls from Florida , Kali-Fornia , Ohio , etc . If I don't recognize the number , I don't answer . I check my phone messages to see if there is anything I should be aware of . I have a land line hooked up to a FAX machine and I never answer it . Only 3 people plus Time Warner / Spectrum know the number but it gets calls several times a day . Gee , why don't they send me a fax ? 

When we used to have a regular land line I would answer the phone . They would ask for Mr McDonald and I would say just a minute , call out loud for Dad ( he died in 1979 ) , put the phone down and walk away . After a while I would hear a buzzing as the caller had hung up . 

It doesn't do any good to call anyone about the calls because the callers are smart and can change numbers . I have searched some numbers and found them to be from near NYC . Uptown Redneck might be making calls from his Mom's basement . 

[Buckmaster7600]

Last night I got calls from Texas at 10:45, 10:55 and 11:05 at night I answer and no one is even there. If you're going to call and wake me up at least have the decency to let me tell you to go F*** yourself!


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[Uncle Nicky]

1. If they want to loan you money, tell them you just filed for bankruptcy and you could sure use some money. 2. If they start out with, "How are you today?" say, "I'm so glad you asked, because no one these days seems to care, and I have all these problems. My arthritis is acting up, my eyelashes are sore, my dog just died . . . " 3. If they say they're John Doe from XYZ Company, ask them to spell their name. Then ask them to spell the company name. Then ask them where it is located, how long it has been in business, how many people work there, how they got into this line of work if they are married, how many kids they have, etc. Continue asking them personal questions or questions about their company for as long as necessary. 4. This works great if you are male. Telemarketer: "Hi, my name is Judy and I'm with XYZ Company. " You: Wait for a second and with a real husky voice ask, "What are you wearing?" 5. Cry out in surprise, "Judy? Is that you? Oh my God! Judy, how have you been?" Hopefully, this will give Judy a few brief moments of terror as she tries to figure out where she could know you from. 6. Say "No" over and over. Be sure to vary the sound of each one, and keep a rhythmic tempo, even as they are trying to speak. Sing in an operatic voice if possible. Or a "Tiny Tim" falsetto. This is most fun if you can do it until they hang up. 7. If MCI calls trying to get you to sign up for the Family and Friends Plan, reply, in as sinister a voice as you can, "I don't have any friends, would you be my friend?" 8. If the company cleans rugs, respond: "Can you get out blood? Can you get out goat blood? How about human blood?"  9. After the Telemarketer gives his or her spiel, ask him or her to marry you. When they get all flustered, tell them that you can't just give your credit card number to a complete stranger. 10. Tell the Telemarketer that you work for the same company, and they can't sell to employees. 11. Answer the phone. As soon as you realize it is a Telemarketer, set the receiver down, scream, "Oh my God!" and then hang up. 12. Tell the Telemarketer you are busy at the moment and ask him/her if he/she will give you his/her home phone number so you can call him/her back. When the Telemarketer explains that telemarketers cannot give out their home numbers say, "I guess you don't want anyone bothering you at home, right?" The Telemarketer will agree and you say, "Me either!" Hang up. 13. Ask them to repeat everything they say, several times. 14. Tell them it is dinner time, but ask if they would please hold. Put them on your speaker phone while you continue to eat at your leisure. Smack your food loudly and continue with your dinner conversation. 15. Tell the Telemarketer you are on "home incarceration" and ask if they could bring you some beer. 16. Ask them to fax the information to you, and make up a number. 17. Tell the Telemarketer, "Okay, I'll listen to you. But I should probably tell you, I'm not wearing any clothes." 18. Insist that the caller is really your buddy Leon, playing a joke. "Come on, Leon, cut it out! Seriously, Leon, how's your momma?" 19. Tell them you are hard of hearing and that they need to speak up . . .  louder . . . louder . . . 20. Tell them to talk very slowly, because you want to write every word down.

[grampy]

My favorites are the ones who barely speak English!  what?...What?...WHAT?!!!  Why don't you call me back, when you can speak my language! 

Years ago, I got a subscription to Buckmasters. Wasn't really impressed,  so let it run out. Since then, every couple months,  I get a call from Texas,  from a guy who sounds just like Jackie Bushman! Calls me by my first name and asks how my hunting is going! I always say, not too good, could I come hunt with him? He says he'll work on that, then he then starts his pitch. I say whoa, whoa, whoa! AFTER, I hunt with you Jackie, I'll subscribe!........click.  Literally, the same thing every time for a few years now. Still hasn't given up. I'm still hoping for that hunt!

[Steve D]

Answer with one of these...It really works and you should have one anyways if someone needs to find you in the woods

 

 

Edited April 26, 2017 by Steve D

[Nomad]

No home phone , the cell gets a few . I answer unknown because I get calls from workers offering to swap OT shifts .

One call I get is from some service that forwards calls from prisons . I thought it was a scam but research shows it's not , pretty sure I don't no anyone in prison at this time .

[Elmo]

I get a few.  Get some from NRA as well asking for more money.  I've lost my patience.  Once I hear it's a telemarketer, I immediately tell them I'm not interested and hang up.  Don't even bother listening to their rebuttal or counter-offer.

[turkeyfeathers]

I get the " I can see you're having a problem with your computer" one quite often. I then tell them I don't have a computer.  They want you to log in and grab passwords etc.

Another one that keeps switching numbers as I block them is Citibank offering me better finance charges. It would help if I even had a Citibank  CC  

Wrong # that I pushed to voicemail last week was from Puerto Rico.  She left me a long message in Spanish and all I could figure out was thank you at the end.

There's a local lawyer tv commercial stating that they can help you sue for telemarketing nuisance phone calls.  I really doubt that'll ever go anywhere in court

[Steve D]

This is not a 100 % but it will help

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0108-national-do-not-call-registry

 

[kpkot]

2 hours ago, Larry302 said:

No home phone , the cell gets a few . I answer unknown because I get calls from workers offering to swap OT shifts .

One call I get is from some service that forwards calls from prisons . I thought it was a scam but research shows it's not , pretty sure I don't no anyone in prison at this time .

I was getting a prisoner named leann calling me from a nys correctional facility.  She stopped calling after about 8xs. 

[gjs4]

My wife and I used to compete with who could keep them on the phone the longest by only asking them questions- not answering theirs or using sentences.....only questions posed from our side. It was fun at times. We had other games like made up languages, number of times you can get them to repeat the whole Schtick, mock bathroom usage, start asking them about martial problems......another interesting one is ask where the call center is located and then pretend like you just applied there or used to work there (making up names). They're just folks trying to make living working a dead end job- rather have some fun than beat up the messenger.


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[E J]

The ones I get are mostly automated and either tell me they will help me with my student loan debt (never had any), or tell me some sort of warranty is about to run out.

[Otto]

When I don't recognize the number, I usually answer "Frank's Septic Service, You poop it, we Scoop it". Or "Frank's Pizza, take out or delivery?". My name is not Frank.....

I did sign up for call block on Time Warner, now Spectrum and that cut down the number of calls significantly.  As a matter of fact, hardy anyone calls anymore.....

[Adkhunter1590]

My favorites are the ones who barely speak English!  what?...What?...WHAT?!!!  Why don't you call me back, when you can speak my language! 
Years ago, I got a subscription to Buckmasters. Wasn't really impressed,  so let it run out. Since then, every couple months,  I get a call from Texas,  from a guy who sounds just like Jackie Bushman! Calls me by my first name and asks how my hunting is going! I always say, not too good, could I come hunt with him? He says he'll work on that, then he then starts his pitch. I say whoa, whoa, whoa! AFTER, I hunt with you Jackie, I'll subscribe!........click.  Literally, the same thing every time for a few years now. Still hasn't given up. I'm still hoping for that hunt!

Same here!! Ol jackie impersonator called me up back in the fall looking for like $132 or some crap. What a bunch of BS that buckmasters thing is. Last fall was the 2nd time they've called me in the last 2 years and before that they called my wife once.

But I mostly don't answer numbers I don't know. Only have a cell phone so I don't get too many but it's usually a couple calls a week.

[NFA-ADK]

Love when India calls and says they are from Microsoft and my computer is infected.  After about the 5th time I got tired and acted like I was doing what they said but kept getting errors.  Then I would ask them which computer was infected as I had a Windows XP, Vista, Window7, 8.  They would usually say the XP machine is infected, O WAIT, sorry I forgot that computer is not online.  Then I would get the hesitation and "its the Windows Vista computer."   Was kind of fun messing with them after a bad day. 

I won so many Disney trips it is amazing.  lol

Once I hear congratulations I hang up. 

The Do Not Call list works. 

Steve D posted it above, I just checked my number and it was registered in 2003.

Here is the link again.

https://www.donotcall.gov/

[mowin]

I had one guy a few weeks ago call looking for Leon. It wasn't a telemarketer, but some dude looking for Leon.  After telling him on 3-4 occasions that there was no one here by that name, I finally had enough and told him Leon died the other day. Never called back. 

[fasteddie]

I have gotten a few calls telling me I have a problem with a Credit Card and they could give me a better interest rate . I tell them thanks for the heads up and hang up . I don't carry a balance and pay the card when I see the bill . If I am bored , I may let them talk for a while . It's their dime .

[dbHunterNY]

just had a scam not a telemarketer.... basically answered went with him for 15 seconds.  he started his very long pitch but i'd set the phone down.  if was muffled but then he got pretty angry when i didn't answer the questions at the end must be.  he was screaming "hello" and "answer me" then hung up.  a lot i just say i'm not interested and hang up if they persist.  this cruise ship one i always hang up right away.  it starts with a loud boat fog horn. lol  seems like a poor way to start a call but their choice.

[turkeyfeathers]

11 hours ago, kpkot said:

I was getting a prisoner named leann calling me from a nys correctional facility.  She stopped calling after about 8xs. 

All she wanted was a conjuncal visit