What’s the most fun you’ve had with scammers/telemarketers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be nice. This is a horrible job.

It is horrible job but also the people who work there do not make those calls, they are made by the computer and
they only speak what they need to say when the call comes up on their side. It is the business owners who are ignoring
the "do not call" list and keep calling despite it.

Also, scheduling calls for the middle of the dinnertime when nobody who has any decency will call, makes you rush
to the phone thinking that this must be some family emergency. How is this fair?

I agree with you 100%. But maybe you should be angry at the FCC Instead.

Oh and these guys make me crazy too.

[Anonymous]

My dad used to pretend that they had called in on a morning radio show. Then one day, the guy started crying and asking America to please help his country, that things were horrible, people were in poverty, he couldn’t feed his kids, that they wanted to be just like America.

My dad stopped doing it after that.

[Anonymous]

I'm surprised no one has posted this yet!

The famous Seinfeld telemarketer scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRh1CMC3OVw

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be nice. This is a horrible job.

It's an illegal job, so I don't feel sorry for them. Often they are phishing for your financial information to rob you. These are not people you need to be nice to.

It's not the same as it was back in the day when it was telemarketers asking you a few questions and then trying to get you to buy something. That was a legal job where it made sense to be polite and ask them not to call again.

These people are breaking the law and attempting to deceive you to give them money. Not ask for a donation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be nice. This is a horrible job.

It's an illegal job, so I don't feel sorry for them. Often they are phishing for your financial information to rob you. These are not people you need to be nice to.

It's not the same as it was back in the day when it was telemarketers asking you a few questions and then trying to get you to buy something. That was a legal job where it made sense to be polite and ask them not to call again.

These people are breaking the law and attempting to deceive you to give them money. Not ask for a donation.

+100

They are out to get your personal info and use it to their own advantage.

I love it when I get a call from "Microsoft" and "they've detected a problem and need me to turn on my computer right away".
Those are the most fun to mess with it....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be nice. This is a horrible job.

It's an illegal job, so I don't feel sorry for them. Often they are phishing for your financial information to rob you. These are not people you need to be nice to.

It's not the same as it was back in the day when it was telemarketers asking you a few questions and then trying to get you to buy something. That was a legal job where it made sense to be polite and ask them not to call again.

These people are breaking the law and attempting to deceive you to give them money. Not ask for a donation.

its a scam --not a job!

[Anonymous]

I visit an 83-year-old lady weekly who gets at least 2 scam calls during the time I'm there. It's ridiculous. Yesterday she picked up a scam call and broke out in song, "You must be so prouddd of what you do for a livinggg! Scamming the elderlyyyy!" I heard the click on the other line and cracked up.

Also, I picked up one of these calls once and said in broken English, "I no speak no language!" and hung up.

Other than that, I ignore and block.

[Anonymous]

I never answer the phone for unknown numbers, or even numbers in my exchange which are usually spoofed. If you answer it only increases the number of spam calls. You might think you are being clever by pretending you are taking them seriously but they probably get that 10 times a day and are tired of the joke. Or if they are in Nigeria they don't get the joke.

[Anonymous]

Who is talking to these people anymore in 2019? I never answer the phone for unknown numbers. We no longer have a land line.

[Anonymous]

As some other posters have alluded to ... fraud telemarketing is a very serious issue ... especially for senior citizens. So, no, do not be polite to these people. I tell them that I am the police when they call and that they'd better hang up fast or I'll report them. Or once when they said they were the SSA...I said that's funny I work for them...what did you say your name was? And, then, they hung up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be nice. This is a horrible job.

Wtf! What kind of reasoning is that? Lol.
A person has a ‘horrible’ job as a scammer: be nice to them!!!

[Anonymous]

I speak gibberish. It cracks me up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is talking to these people anymore in 2019? I never answer the phone for unknown numbers. We no longer have a land line.

+1

Same with door to door solicitors. Do you people who answer your phone also answer your doors when you are not expecting someone?

[Anonymous]

I hand the phone to my kids and tell them it's Santa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be nice. This is a horrible job.

It's an illegal job, so I don't feel sorry for them. Often they are phishing for your financial information to rob you. These are not people you need to be nice to.

It's not the same as it was back in the day when it was telemarketers asking you a few questions and then trying to get you to buy something. That was a legal job where it made sense to be polite and ask them not to call again.

These people are breaking the law and attempting to deceive you to give them money. Not ask for a donation.

+ 1000
I don't feel much of a need to "be nice" to predatory scumbags.