11-18-2017, 05:40 AM
A friend of mine gets a big kick out of having long weird discussions with them. Course they have to be REAL people! He pours himself a glass of wine and asks questions like, "Do you sell vacuum cleaners? I need one." and they're like, "No, sir, we don't sell vacuums. We're calling about..." Sales calls? He's like, "Oh no. I can't get solar. Houses burn down with solar." And of course they argue and he goes into long on-the-spot story about a house that had solar and burned down and how he won't go anywhere near it and how his grandmother died in a fire and how awful it is, blah blahblah. He gets a kick out of how long they'll stay on with him until they give up.
I tried it once. This was the computer scam, where they tell you they're from "IT Department" or "Microsoft Tech Support" and that they've gotten alert about a virus on your computer. I put on old lady voice and said, "Oh my. I don't know anything about my computer. My son handles all of that." Guy (Indian or Pakistani accent) starts to go into his thing about this virus and I'm giving him my old-lady oh my's and finally commercial break was overon the TV so I said in my regular voice, "Ok, enough I'm just f----g with you." and he said... "YOU F--- YOUR MOTHER!" and hung up. It still makes me laugh.
Now I just don't answer, check the # online, and then block the call. Sears has been calling us for like 2 weeks every day, 2x a day. I'm sure they want to sell us a warranty.
I tried it once. This was the computer scam, where they tell you they're from "IT Department" or "Microsoft Tech Support" and that they've gotten alert about a virus on your computer. I put on old lady voice and said, "Oh my. I don't know anything about my computer. My son handles all of that." Guy (Indian or Pakistani accent) starts to go into his thing about this virus and I'm giving him my old-lady oh my's and finally commercial break was overon the TV so I said in my regular voice, "Ok, enough I'm just f----g with you." and he said... "YOU F--- YOUR MOTHER!" and hung up. It still makes me laugh.
Now I just don't answer, check the # online, and then block the call. Sears has been calling us for like 2 weeks every day, 2x a day. I'm sure they want to sell us a warranty.