I have call display , thankfully , but have noticed a lot of out of town calls the last couple of months . If I do bother to answer it's some airline pushing a vacation plan , the usual " duck cleaners " from some Easter country , some survey which could be a front for a product , robot calls etc etc . There are more now , around here , than I recall in the past . Like I said , the majority I don't answer , but what the hell is going on ?
Please do not criticize my friends. They are welcome to call me anytime they want. If they can afford it!! I have had the duct cleaners to my house two times. When they arrive I till them I changed my mind and take >>>.....//// off. I have also had some window guy here and he never got on to the porch when I sent him packing. They will keep calling you unless it costs them money. Then they will take you off THEIR no call list. You have to keep them on the line for a long time and finally they will hang up and sometimes they even say thanks for wasting my time. The guy that calls from who knows where and has a contract with Microsoft. I have had a blast with him and my wife just shakes her head. He wants access to my computer and I tell him I thank Mohamed you finally called as I keep getting popups. He is telling me what to go and I get a popup of him in a compromising position with me in control. He would say to just to delete it and he is telling me what frame to go to again. Then low and be hold another popup of another explicit picture. This went on four times before he caught on. The wife now tells all her friends about my antics and gets a real charge out of it as we now get very few call. Make them waste their time and money and your calls will drop off. Works for me.
I should add the travel people are also a scam. Have them go through their whole talk and when he asks for your visa number ask if it is all inclusive. Then say that it must include the hookers then. The girl got really pissed when I did that one. OH well!
-- Edited by Smokin Joe on Thursday 21st of January 2016 07:00:38 PM
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Yes they are all crazzzy but me and you........... and I am not sure about you!!!!
I had your friend from Microsoft call me this week. After a moment or two of discussion he called me an A$$hole. I was terribly offended. He may have been correct.
he must have called you right after he called me and I wasted his time and called him an *******Offset wrote:
I had your friend from Microsoft call me this week. After a moment or two of discussion he called me an A$$hole. I was terribly offended. He may have been correct.
I don't have call display so I just hang up on them as soon as I realize the person isn't specifically asking for me or my wife by name.
If the person phoning does use one of our names, and I don't recognize the voice, I always say "state your business" .... once they state something I have no interest in talking about, I simply hang up. I used to play around with them but that got old pretty quickly so I find the hang-up is the easiest route now.
I don't think the duct cleaning guys are as far away as you may think. I was toying with one once and he let out that they worked from an office at Markham and Eglinton in Toronto. I think he was a new guy as seconds later his boss grabbed the phone and took over the call. Once I realized how close they really were, I decided to stop verbally "tearing them a new one" as the reality is (or seems to be), they know where I live and I have no idea who these people are.
I may go back to an unlisted number ....had one for many years but dropped it to save a couple of bucks now that I'm retired . It did help cut down on the B.S. calls . Actually I forgot to mention that real estate reps have been phoning , obviously hungry for business !
when the duct cleaners guys call I simply wack the land line reciever against the coffie table .. makeing dam sure to hit the microphone end on the table, a bunch of times .. hard so the jerk gets as close to shots in the ear as I can get from here
Please do not criticize my friends. They are welcome to call me anytime they want. If they can afford it!! I have had the duct cleaners to my house two times. When they arrive I till them I changed my mind and take >>>.....//// off. I have also had some window guy here and he never got on to the porch when I sent him packing. They will keep calling you unless it costs them money. Then they will take you off THEIR no call list. You have to keep them on the line for a long time and finally they will hang up and sometimes they even say thanks for wasting my time. The guy that calls from who knows where and has a contract with Microsoft. I have had a blast with him and my wife just shakes her head. He wants access to my computer and I tell him I thank Mohamed you finally called as I keep getting popups. He is telling me what to go and I get a popup of him in a compromising position with me in control. He would say to just to delete it and he is telling me what frame to go to again. Then low and be hold another popup of another explicit picture. This went on four times before he caught on. The wife now tells all her friends about my antics and gets a real charge out of it as we now get very few call. Make them waste their time and money and your calls will drop off. Works for me.
I should add the travel people are also a scam. Have them go through their whole talk and when he asks for your visa number ask if it is all inclusive. Then say that it must include the hookers then. The girl got really pissed when I did that one. OH well!
-- Edited by Smokin Joe on Thursday 21st of January 2016 07:00:38 PM
i gotta tella joe that i really like ur way of thinkin lol
We always let the machine answer for us, and if we recognize the voice, we pick up. On my cell phone, when I pick up, and someone doesn't come on at the other end right away, I know it's a telemarketer of some kind, and hang up.
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If brains were wire, some couldn't short circuit a firefly.
I wondered why you guys keep hanging up on me ! Ha !
Here's a few pointers that might help.
1- The auto-dialers are slow to pick up before a person might answer. That delay is usually your heads up. If you have that second or three delay, start pounding your keys randomly. Those tones will usually screw up their Server and make it think it's an inactive line, a fax etc etc.
2- The guys that call claiming they are Microsoft ? Ask for their MS Partner Licence number.
They'll usually hang up really fast. MS will never call or email you with issues on a machine.
3- Don't waste your time 'registering' for that 'no call' BS. It doesn't work, and the Fed's have yet to fine anyone (ok, maybe 3 or 4 for a couple bucks). Yet another brilliant Gubment thing.
I was a Manager/Senior Systems Analyst for a huge Bearing Company for 20 years.
I'm sure things have changed over the years, but some stuff can't. See what I'm saying ?
I thought I was getting robo calls from someone claiming to be scotia bank. Call starts with a computer saying they're from Scotia Bank and pleas enter your person information etc. I was at the bank they had no idea about the calls. Finally got in touch with someone at customer service and they said it actually was a legit call. I said your nuts if you think I'm going to just hand over my info when a computer calls. The girl was embarrassed she had to tell me it was real and agreed with me.
Well the last time the buggers called me I answered the phone saying Detective Jones Homicide ( call display ) and then the fun started. I told them to stay on the line as we were conducting a homicide investigation. I also asked how they got this number as it is on a do not call list and they could not hang up or be charged for with holding information. I kept them on the line quizzing them for a good 5 min, and informed them you are now a person of interest. I asked them how they new the person they were calling. I explained to them that the person they were calling was gay and if they had any sexual contact with him in the last 24hr, or if they were that persons gay lover. Needless to say they passed my to a supervisor and it all started again. But they did hang up in the end. Wow talk about cabin fever I found a new sport that day. I have not had many calls since.
Well the last time the buggers called me I answered the phone saying Detective Jones Homicide ( call display ) and then the fun started. I told them to stay on the line as we were conducting a homicide investigation. I also asked how they got this number as it is on a do not call list and they could not hang up or be charged for with holding information. I kept them on the line quizzing them for a good 5 min, and informed them you are now a person of interest. I asked them how they new the person they were calling. I explained to them that the person they were calling was gay and if they had any sexual contact with him in the last 24hr, or if they were that persons gay lover. Needless to say they passed my to a supervisor and it all started again. But they did hang up in the end. Wow talk about cabin fever I found a new sport that day. I have not had many calls since.
You have been listening to Tom Mabe. His prank calls are staged I hear.
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Yes they are all crazzzy but me and you........... and I am not sure about you!!!!
I have a habit of getting vulgar with them....real vulgar. Vulgar to the point that my wife says I can't talk to people like that. I just get off on seeing how much abuse they will take before they hang up. The weather is crappy lately and I have nothing to do. Sure hope that phone rings again soon....
I have had that call and said I will not give the government a F)#$>g cent. My gun is loaded so try and come and get it He hung up. The next time I will be very humble and string him for a while to see what he has to say.
PS I did not get arrested.
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Yes they are all crazzzy but me and you........... and I am not sure about you!!!!
I guess this is the next generation of phone scams seeing as how the Nigerian " you have inherited 15 million , just send an activation fee " calls are not a surprise any more .
I have a habit of getting vulgar with them....real vulgar. Vulgar to the point that my wife says I can't talk to people like that. I just get off on seeing how much abuse they will take before they hang up. The weather is crappy lately and I have nothing to do. Sure hope that phone rings again soon....
I do also but I make cracks about their mother after they start first (and they will make comments the odd occasion after they catch on) as a lot of them in their culture wives are second class and mothers come first.
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Yes they are all crazzzy but me and you........... and I am not sure about you!!!!
I went strictly cell phone, dropping Ma bell land line, but am now starting to get these calls on the cell!!!!
likewise here also. i pretty much don't answer anymore unless it is someone from my contacts list. if its legit they will leave a message. funny how years ago you would go otta your way to answer a call and now not so much anymore.
An old story. A guy acts crazy on his house phone to a marketer and later that night after the marketer got drunk with his pals, he started calling the guy at 3 in the morning so he could let his drunkin buddies hear how crazy this guy was.
We dont have ducts in our house, just hot water heating. We DO however have a small pond in the back and have seen ducks in it before. The whole family used to joke with them. We would say, "Yeah, for sure you can clean our ducks, but you have to catch them." They would normally reply with something like "I do not understand sir," or "what?". We tell them "Yeah theyre out back in the pond, like I said you have to catch them". We got mixed responses, some just hanging up and others would start talking about ducts again. Pretty funny
Answering machine ........... never answer the phone. Dial-up tie-up makes it hard to reach me. important people get me online.
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Fords Rule ! If it ain't designed and manufactured in North America it sucks ! I don't do rice, pasta, fish and chips, sauerkraut, Ikea or other third world motor vehicle !
Had a guy that was renting water heaters, on my front porch, years ago. - he had all the paper work, to switch me off Electric Energy Company & lock me into an overpriced 5 year contract - he needed my utility bill and serial number of rented water heater, to make the change seamless...LOL - we made small talk & I left him run through his talking points...5 minutes wasted - I said, the wife handles all the bills & banking, but I'd look for a monthly electric bill - left him on the porch, for another 5 minutes / while I went inside to watched TV - came back, sorry "no can find" / salesman said, "that's OK, we can get your signature & units serial number" - OK great, "I said" / I don't give him my signature but instead invite salesman into basement, for serial # of water heater - once in the furnace room, salesman discovers a Home Depot label on our heater / he doesn't even look for the serial # - instead salesman says, "why did you NOT tell me, you own your water heater / in a pissed off voice - I said, "you never asked, doesn't pay to assume anything, in this business" - He said, "you wasted my time" - I said, "you wasted my time to / and tried to scam me, in an overpriced contract...guess we are even"
Back in 1989, I was building a 3 car garage / and carpenter & I went into house for a break. Knock-knock on the front door, its a Kirby Vacuum salesman / I kindly take his free garbage bags. - told him, "clearly not interested, as we installed central vac just 6 months ago" - but he really wanted to clean my carpet / so I made him say "I know you said No, to new Kirby purchase" - I load a VCR movie, and we watch a 45 minute demo / while the sales pitch unwinds - when it came time to buy the vac, I said "do you remember the short sentence, I made you repeat...before the sales pitch started"? - he said Yes / so I asked him to repeat my statement, which he did - I said, well you got your answer & if I buy the Vac, I wouldn't have any money left to pay the carpenter (who is sitting in the living room, watching the movie, I put on) So I showed salesman the front door, and offered thanks for the little demo gift / carpenter & I, laughed our heads off. Salesman said, what am I going to tell my boss, for wasting all this time? I said, tell the top guy, your not a good listener...LOL...never saw another Vac seller again.
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