What’s the most fun you’ve had with scammers/telemarketers?
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Anonymous
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I pretended to be very concerned about unpaid taxes. I got the caller's name etc so I could return his call. He kept amping up the trouble I was in. I told him I would have my lawyer call to figure things out ASAP.
He started swearing and hung up on me. I haven't had that call since. |
Anonymous
| Act like I’m having an O. |
Anonymous
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People are literally kidnapped to work as scam callers in scam call factories in east Asia. Usually the criminal organizations are Chinese mafia.
Yes, I DO feel bad for the people who are enslaved to work like this for nothing because they were lured to Thailand or someplace, and had their passports confiscated, and they get beaten if they don't make quota. So I just hang up. |
Anonymous
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If it pops up as a telemarketing call, I answer "Quahog Sperm Bank. Are you calling to jack 'em or us to pack 'em?"
They usually just hang up. |
Anonymous
| My friend does a range of random responses. Sometimes he's Detective Ellison investigating a murder, sometimes he's a dry cleaner. . . . he toys with them as they try to do their pitch and then he yells at them. |
Anonymous
| I have learned lots of words in other languages so I can go at them. |
Anonymous
| Check out Jim Florentine’s terrorizing telemarketers on YouTube. |
Anonymous
| DOOO NOT REEEEDEEEEEMM |
Anonymous
| Any time I hear a south Asian or Indian accent I hang up immediately. |
Anonymous
| I usually don’t answer or just say I’m not interested and hang up. But my teen answers with the oldie but goody, “roadside diner, you kill we grill.” The trouble is, it’s almost always a robot these days. |
Anonymous
| When I used to try to engage them with some type of act, they quickly begin to use some pretty disturbing language, like frightening actually, so now I just hang up. |
Anonymous
| I ask the scammers if their mother knows what they do for a living. One replied, "yes, she taught me everything I know about how to do this." |
Anonymous
| We stop answering the phone years ago. We have kept the land lines but just don't answer them. |
Anonymous
| I just pick up and say nothing. |
Anonymous
| DH and I simply pretend to be old deaf people and wait for them to hang up. |