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MarieCeleste

That is so funny just read it out to my daughter
I do often tell them I'm the charlady

Syviain Canada agree about voice
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When I get calls like that the devil in me comes out. I often ask them what colour knickers they're wearing (if they're male). They never ring back.

Or, I tell them their call is important to me and they are in a queue. I then sing to them while they're waiting. They never seem to wait long and hang up.

A lot of these callers are supposed to work from a fairly rigid script so I like to bugger that up by asking them what they had for tea, and if they had gravy on it. Or do they think I should put pansies or petunias in my window boxes.

Sometimes I just tell them to eff off.

lilybids .....................


I get that call occasionally as well



and she says it in quite a sultry way :-)

Why do they get cross with you if you argue back? Don't they realise that they are running a scam?

Like someone else, I was foolish enough to answer one of those 'lifestyle' questionaires. He ended up recording the wrong house number. When someone quotes that, its easy to spot where they got the details from.

I've done the
'play along with them',
leave the line open but walk away, '
Thank you I'll ask our (relative) as he is an IT help desk manager for a major company' (true),
Argued that microsoft never call you.
Which computer do they mean
We have an Apple system
Ask them to tell us who our provider is.
And the normally used - we don't take cold calls and put the phone down

OFITG ~ I was told not to do that (with the whistle) because they might 'phone you back and do the same, with a louder whistle!

If I can't be bothered with them I put the 'phone on the bench and walk off....... when I get back a few (or a lot) minutes later, they're usually gone.

When I get any of these sort of call I just say, hold on a moment, pick up the whistle I keep beside my phone - give a good long blast of it down the phone and hang up :-D

I read some of the posts to DH

He said..........

"next time you get a call like that, tell them you don't have a 'phone, and how did they manage to find you"

:-D

I like the way he thinks

Yes, she has rung me a few times.

Ages ago I took part in one of their surveys and gave the wrong name and information so, if they ring up and ask for the name I gave, I know exactly where it came from.

I've had this call several times
phones rings pick up phone say hello then after awhile a female voice says goodbye how odd is that :-S

When Fred had his cataract done the black South African(don't even sound like white South Africans) nurse rang the next morning to check on him and I slammed the phone down.

It wa only after I had realized who it was and rung up to grovel that she told me that most people do the same!

lol Sylvia......... I haven't lost any sleep over it.



Our surname is unusual....... one of those almost unpronouncable Cornish ones...

As soon as they say........ is that Mrs WhatTheHooHaIsYourName, I hang up.

:-)

But...... I often make sure who is calling first, as we have friends from many places, English isn't their first language.

and are you now worrying as to what the important message was all about??? :-D




I keep getting Rachel, or alternatively Amy, who both want to give me very important information about my credit cards and / or credit rating






I press Off as soon as they say their name





We do have friends or rellies with those names, so hope I don't do it to one of them one day, by mistake :-D

last week I answered the 'phone, and heard

Please hold for an important message

I didn't hold!

Whoever it was hasn't 'phoned again.

:-S

I had yet another 'international' call today. They're apparently informing me that I can get a government funded new boiler. Sometimes I 'answer' and leave the phone off the hook, or I just let it ring as it's a pre- recorded message. Today it rang as I was just about to eat my dinner, so I picked it up, pressed 'answer', then pressed 'end call'.

One day they'll get the message :-|

I'd really like to know why these spam calls can't be stopped, especially the pre-recorded messages telling blatant lies. I'm sure if I started randomly calling people and telling them this sort of bull on behalf of the government, I'd soon be prosecuted. :-| :-| :-| :-| :-|

But these two lost their tempers with me!

One accused me of trying to fool her. Well there's a thing. It would never cross her mind to try to fool e.

I get lots of those calls, 2 or 3 a week sometimes.

I usually say rather plaintively "But I don't HAVE a computer"


They splutter .....................



and then I put the phone down

I've not had one of those calls yet but I might answer with summat like,

well thank you for telling me, I'd best run it up to PC World, or somewhere....
or
"Bill Gates is my brother in law, I'll get him to see to it!"

If I happen to be in and get one, I just say in a oh so greateful voice,,,,,,,,

thank you very much for telling me,,,,,,or ,Yes I know,, isnt it just dreadful and put the reciver down.

I kept her waiting ever such a long time while I went upstairs to get mine. Well, I wasn't paying for the call was I?

We kept her on hands free so she could entertain us all and then I only forgot the computer when I came down.

The day before I just agreed with everything he said like, did Ilive in a house or flat or bungalow. Well yes, of course I did!

I get those calls all the time be it George paul or john
I let them speal the speal
then i say Moogibar or Guptar
i don't even have a computer

they get so mad sometimes ;-) ;-)