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From time to time, I do. The scumbags use dialers that have numbers that would indicate they are local to me. So I answer on the off chance it's a legitimate call from a local business. And when it becomes clear it isn't: Me: So where are you located? Scammer: I am in greater metropolitan Bumfuck! Me: I wont do business with people who lie about or conceal their location. Why do you do that? Scammer: Hangs up. There should be a law prohibiting spoofed caller I.D. information. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Same. I usually get the sense they know I'm going to start fucking w/ them. Almost like I'm on list, which doesn't explain why they call me. Unless they know how useless their call program is. | |||
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Never get text scams thankfully. But I do get calls often. I still have a CA cell # and live in FL. Always to sell my ca house. Any other scam I play along as long as they do. To waste their time. | |||
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| The success of a solution usually depends upon your point of view |
Text scams are great because you can play the long game with them. Demand more money up front Demand more money as "issues" crop up You can't start because you have not received the check. Send a new one. Give them your bank info using a Nigerian bank number. Tell them you paid the previous homeowner in person when you ran into him at the property. “We truly live in a wondrous age of stupid.” - 83v45magna "I think it's important that people understand free speech doesn't mean free from consequences societally or politically or culturally." -Pranjit Kalita, founder and CIO of Birkoa Capital Management | |||
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| Retired, laying back and enjoying life  |
Text scammers or people trying to sell things via text get deleted immediately but telephone scammers always get played with. My favorite are the ones seeking donations. I let them go through their whole routine and when they try to close it out by getting me to commit to a donation, I always tell them "NO!" and wait for their response. Some are a little brighter and hang up, but some are a little dense and go into a recovery routine. A few are so dense that a second "NO!" doesn't clue them and away we go with some even getting a little put out but eventually even the thickest heads get the message, and they hang up. Freedom comes from the will of man. In America it is guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment | |||
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Let us not forget that classic scam the scammer from days of yore: Wendy and Willis | |||
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I had a guy with a Middle Eastern accent calling every day a few years ago, telling me that I had to send him money, or my Social Security would be cancelled forever. I hung up at first, but one day I asked him how much I owed, where I needed to send the money & a few other questions that I totally ignored the answers to. Finally, I said, "One more question. Are all you goat fuckers child molesting little bitches?" And the rude asshole hung up on me! Never called back either. ------------------------------------------------ "It's hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions, than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." Thomas Sowell | |||
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Honestly don't get much in the way of scam texts, a few each year and with T-Mobile on the iPhone I just mark it as spam and delete. Not worth the time to mess with them and I don't want to respond letting them know it's a valid phone number they texted. | |||
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I used to until a few years ago. I had one call me and I really went off on him. A few days later the jerk calls me back a couple times in the wee hours on the morning, waking me up, asking how I liked him now and adding some expletives. I figure it’s not wise to kick a skunk, and these folks have my telephone number, so I just don’t answer numbers I don’t recognize, even if it looks local. If it’s a legit call and important they can leave a message and I’ll call back. And my phones caller ID seems to do pretty good at ID’ing numbers that are scam or telemarketers. | |||
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Ha ! You have my vote. Lover of the US Constitution Wile E. Coyote School of DIY Disaster | |||
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Yup. Whatever scam they trying to run, I play along with along the same lines. The other day I got the warrant one. I asked if since I was already a fugitive from justice if there was any reason for me to worry about yet another warrant. Instant hang up  “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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| Banned for showing his ass |
The main reason I do not mess with telemarketers is because I can not live up to the talent of Tom Mabe ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkdoogjic4I | |||
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| Uppity Helot |
Phone solicitors/scammers : Sometimes I practice my Slovak on them . They have no idea what the hell I am saying. One insolent Pakistani got sexually harassed. I wanted to know all about his toes.  | |||
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It's the robo-automated calls I hang up on. I do like effing with the Microsoft or TV service Indians that call then start asking you questions. Questions I never directly answer and then turn in on them to challenge their legitimacy. They never know the answers then they eventually hang up on me. {the nerve}  | |||
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Depends on my mood. One time I had a guy named Michael (speaking with a HEAVY accent from India) was trying to pull the scam about being from Microsoft and needing access to my laptop to clean my Windows. I spent 45 minutes talking him in circles about how he was going to clean my windows. He didn't catch on until I asked if he was bringing his own ladder as some of them are fairly high off the ground. That is when he realized "I thought" he was coming to clean the windows on my house. He told me that he meant my computer, Windows on my computer. I told him I had a MAC... I swear I heard him say DAMN IT as he hung up. Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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