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[2k]

Raining, so I'm sitting here watching a college baseball game that I don't care about, waiting for one I want to watch. Mail arrives!! I get a notice from the National Vehicle Protection Services in St Charles, Mo. I know its a scam, but I'm bored. Dial the toll free # and after waiting my turn the lady answers with "What is the year & make of your vehicle?" I say, "You tell me, you know my warranty is expiring." She says "Our data base is to large you need too tell me." I say " This is some sort of scam ain't it." She says "Have a nice day sir", and hangs up. Now how-n-hell am I gonna get a warranty? Help please!!!!!

[turn_key]

I get a few scam calls a day, especially from "Rachael from card holder services" and when I have the time I mess with them as much as I can. I got a call just as I was picking up my daughter from school. I asked her to sing that nice man a song but I guess he didn't like it because he hung up.

Once I was able to keep a guy on the phone for about 10 minutes as I was making up credit card numbers to give him.

[moscooter]

 

It's obviously a very (money making) business.  Most all of us get these calls and/or cards in the mail.  I sold my last of 3 Vettes more than 4 years ago.  Even after,  I kept getting (extended warranty type) offers to cover it.   Same still goes on with my wifes car and my truck too.

Ironically...............(extended warrantys might be the way to go)...............for Harleyl owners..........given bad compensators and lifters, etc................but for 4 wheel vichicles,  typically,  the extended warranty is not worth it.

[grc]

The scams are very lucrative, thus the constant bombardment of calls and mail.  If the average American had at least the common sense of a piss ant, and refused to fall for this crap, the rest of us could be spared from screening our calls and shredding all the junk mail.  The technology already exists btw for the phone companies to block the scam phone calls, but of course in America they refuse to use that technology.  I imagine we will see it offered as an extra cost option eventually, while our Canadian friends already have such a system in place because their government requires the Telco's to provide it.

I still have a land line with an integrated answering machine and have set it to answer after only a couple rings (and the ringer is turned down low).  I never answer the phone, and while it rings twice several times a day, oddly enough no one leaves a message other than the rare reminder of a doctor's appointment.  Hmmmmm, I wonder what that means.

Jerry

[Chains]

I answer police department if it is an unknown number. Usually they hang up but a few have been so dumbfounded that they stay on a start to give their bull crap pitch. Soon as they do I ask them what the hell don't you understand you have called the Southside police department when they stammer I usually unless a flurry of obscenities at them and they apologize and hang up.

[Royalroadie]

I get a few scam calls a day, especially from "Rachael from card holder services" and when I have the time I mess with them as much as I can. I got a call just as I was picking up my daughter from school. I asked her to sing that nice man a song but I guess he didn't like it because he hung up.

Once I was able to keep a guy on the phone for about 10 minutes as I was making up credit card numbers to give him.

Yeah you are like me.  I try and drag them out as long as I can and mess with them.  I had one guy going for over 30 minutes, all the time I was doing bs paper work for my business.  Some times after about 10 minutes when I need to rap it up and get out the door onto something productive, I will ask them to talk dirty to me.  Most get mad but every once in awhile they will.  That is when it really gets funny!

Their calling is a waste of my time, so I like to repay them in spades.

[OBB]

Had one call one time to tell me the time was running out to buy an extended warranty on my Chevy Avalanche.
I asked them "which one? I own three of them." (I owned 3 at that time and they were all blue)
They said "the '05"
I asked them which '05 as two of them were '05s
She was getting pretty frustrated with me before she hung up.

[turn_key]

...I will ask them to talk dirty to me...

That is brilliant! I'm borrowing that one.

[VaEagle]

Several years ago we used to get multiple calls saying we won a free family portrait from a local photography studio and I usually told them I wasn't interested and asked them to remove us from their call list. One persistent sales person kept asking why so I finally said I couldn't use the free photo and then she asked why and I said I was blind......she apologized and we never got another call from them.

[2k]

I will ask them to talk dirty to me.

Thanks for the great idea, that's even better than the coaches whistle that I use on occasion.

[Joel]

I get calls from Sharron your local google specialist, sometimes 3 a day.
I use to get live calls from some chick selling pron videos, I would have her tell me all the dirty details then lt her know my buddy was interested and put on hold. Than I would tell 1 of my techs. That he has a call from his wife, that was fun

[iski]

Phony scam calls from Microsoft shutting down my computer unless...., the IRS seizing all my property unless..., Auto Warranties on long gone vehicles, vacation timeshares I have won that have hidden fees more than the hotel room would cost, non existent student loans I owe money on, etc.  If I have time, and now I have more since retired, sometimes will eff with them.  Usually let the answering machine screen them and usually no message.  Sometimes I begin by thanking them for returning my call, which confuses hell out of them.  When they ask my name I say, Bond, James Bond.  The dog seems to enjoy "talking" to them too as best I can tell.

[Fired00d]

With today's technology (caller ID that even shows up on the TV since we have phone thru cable provider) I don't even answer the phone if it's not someone I know... on my cell phone if the caller is not in my address book (and identifies as such) I don't answer. 99.9% of those calls don't leave messages... those that do and are telemarketers they get added to my call reject list so the phone will not even ring when they call again.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[jc15025]

If my wife answers the phone and it's a telemarketer, she tell them to hold a second and puts the phone down and walks away. They will finally hung up and never call back cause time is money!

[iski]

With today's technology (caller ID that even shows up on the TV since we have phone thru cable provider) I don't even answer the phone if it's not someone I know... on my cell phone if the caller is not in my address book (and identifies as such) I don't answer. 99.9% of those calls don't leave messages... those that do and are telemarketers they get added to my call reject list so the phone will not even ring when they call again.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

I do the same.  Appears some of them are using computer generated fake Caller IDs, no way to block them effectively.  Yesterday I played Forest Gump with one for about 5 minutes.  Think I enjoyed it a lot more than they did.