Don’t talk to the telemarketers!

For some reason, that "Medicare coverage" scam doesn't want to let up. They always start with, "Do you have both Medicare A and B?" I just hang up at that point. I guess that's one way they get the famous "Yes" answer.

But as many times as I've hung up on them, they don't give up. Each call comes from a different number. I used to block those numbers, vbut finally decided it's useless. I think they're "throwaway" numbers, which they use only once.

Mostly if I don't recognize the name, and am not expecting an important call where I might not know the name, I just don't answer. They usually hang up after 2 or 3 rings.
 

jujube said:
I get a big kick when I answer the phone and a recorded voice says, "PLEASE HOLD FOR AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT". Uh, yeah. <click>
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Good one......I would also if I ever answered a call I don't know.
 

There was a time when I loved talking to telemarketers. I would egg them on for as long as I could get away with. Yet not telling them single thing that would be useful to them. It may not have been much but I made them waste time for nothing...

I get these people calling from Nielsen Ratings all the time now wanting to do surveys about radio. Hard pass on that. I never listen to the radio.
 
Axel Slingerland said:
There was a time when I loved talking to telemarketers. I would egg them on for as long as I could get away with. Yet not telling them single thing that would be useful to them. It may not have been much but I made them waste time for nothing...

I get these people calling from Nielsen Ratings all the time now wanting to do surveys about radio. Hard pass on that. I never listen to the radio.
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Same here, I had a great time messing with them and other scammers. Purposely mess up card numbers and act like I was feeble and couldn't understand anything 😆😆
 
Now I just hang up when I hear the beep of their telephone pool. Don't have caller ID on landline. Now I can't even say "F you" or "Go F yourself" I find I don't miss that.
 
When l had my persoal landline (apart from the house land line) ldid a message in my own voice because l was applying for jobs and I wanted to make a good impression.

Later, after that l started to receive phone messages that was only music. l replied with THE LlON SLEEPS TONIGHT. l finally changed my phone number.

When l moved to a new apartment and had not got a new number yet ll got calls that sounded like from inside a bar and a male voice said
*l'm coming over there* lt made me very nervous but the calls eventually stopped.
 
I used to answer now and again with the word 'Yes'
Once they started talking I would say 'please dial one' and of course they immediately hang up.
It stops them calling again.
 
Oldeagle66 said:
I always say "Don't you know who you're calling?" 😂
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That's a good one. Might use that some day but I don't want to offend my workplace or something.

However, I call people for my job sometimes. When someone answers my first words are " Hi, this is Remy and I'm calling from..." I don't ask if I have the right person first. I identify myself first. Which I think is correct.
 
Remy said:
That's a good one. Might use that some day but I don't want to offend my workplace or something.

However, I call people for my job sometimes. When someone answers my first words are " Hi, this is Remy and I'm calling from..." I don't ask if I have the right person first. I identify myself first. Which I think is correct.
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NY State implemented this as Law. Let's see if it works. I hang up when I hear the beep.
 
Axel Slingerland said:
There was a time when I loved talking to telemarketers. I would egg them on for as long as I could get away with. Yet not telling them single thing that would be useful to them. It may not have been much but I made them waste time for nothing...

I get these people calling from Nielsen Ratings all the time now wanting to do surveys about radio. Hard pass on that. I never listen to the radio.
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A few years ago, there were some videos out there that anyone could see, of people who were having fun by misleading these fake telemarketers into thinking they had a "live one" on the line, then finally hung up, or the scam artist caught on and hung up. Some of them were very angry and their language revealed themselves as the thugs they were.

Don't know if anyone does that any more. It might be dangerous because of the voice imitation thing. You're probably better off not picking up, or keeping whatever you say as brief as possible. But some of those videos were really funny, Some of the "marks" probably had acting experience and were very convincing as somebody too dumb to understand what was being offered, needing everything to be repeated, etc.
 
Jace said:
Since..don't have Called ID...at least have to
say Hello
then, when they start their 'schpeil'..
I hang up..not saying anything else.😉
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Well "Hello" might be enough for them to clone your voice. Do you have a voicemail function so that you can call back important calls? Or do you have *67 (I think it is) capability so that you can instantly "redial" the last call?
 

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