Here's your sign, wrong number

[BigBill]

I get people calling trying to sell there goods everyday. I just don't get up to answer it unless I'm near the phone. I tell them to take me off there calling list and there gone.

For years every so often this guy calls. Looking for so n so. I politely tell him he has the wrong number. Now I notice the past three days he called five times a day. I picked up the phone and said you called the wrong number. He asked for the same guy again. Then he asked what my name is? I said it doesn't matter who I am you have the wrong number and stop calling here. I got so pissed because the dog barking at the bear in my yard kept me up all night I launched all forward and rear torpedoes on him.
He hasn't call since. I wish I could send him his sign through the phone.

My new insurance company dropped my cpap supplier. They won't pay them. So I have a new supplier. A year later the old supplier calls a few times. I ripped them a new one.

I never answer the land line. Stupid people.

 

[Tom S.]

Chances are 99 out of 100, the person calling asking for someone is a bill collector. You either have that person's old phone number, or more likely, they used your number. Happened to me, only I knew who they were looking for. I told the caller that person didn't live here, never did live here and if they ever called back, I would sue for them harassment. Never got another call.

 

[Retired Chief]

I simply tell them I am an attorney, that I charge $150 per hour with a 2-hour minimum, and ask for their billing address. Click

 

[Texas Star]

When I got my iPhone, the number I was assigned was that of another person in my zip code. I got many calls about him, as he owed Harley-Davidson money for his motorcycle.

Just on a whim, I ran a Search on him. Found him! He had died several months earlier, and I read his Online obit. in the Dallas Morning News.

After that, I referred collectors to the obituary. They finally quit calling. He owed several companies and they were dunning me. I guess dead people often don't pay their bills on time.

I'm now getting mail for some woman who's never lived here. I learned that she attended a famous private girls' school in this city, but found nothing on her since. But her mail isn't duns. It's catalogs and mail from friends. It's a nuisance to send it back.

 

[Rule3]

I revived my second and final notice! that I was going before the Grand Jury or a Magistrate as I am in serious trouble for some type of tax evasion. I must call this number immediately or face dire consequences!

Call now! To speak with a Federal Agent.

I may not sleep tonight!

 

[Texas Star]

I revived my second and final notice! that I was going before the Grand Jury or a Magistrate as I am in serious trouble for some type of tax evasion. I must call this number immediately or face dire consequences!

Call now! To speak with a Federal Agent.

I may not sleep tonight!

Watch it! A TV station ran a feature on how most such contacts are frauds. Call the IRS and report the contact.

The reporter said the IRS doesn't work that way.

 

[Lee Barner]

for a few months now I have been getting calls from various companies/agencies telling me I am responsible for my ex-wife's final bills. so far only one has followed thru by sending it to a collection agency. when I explain we had been divorced for 17 years they asked for a copy of the divorce papers. I told them what county in KS they could get a copy from. someone's computer still has us linked somehow. lee

 

[Stu1205]

I just tell all those unknown callers, after they finish asking for whomever....
This is Special Agent Johnson with the FBI.
How can I help you? Immediate click.
Works every time, especially with the IRS and Microsoft scammers.

Stu (aka Special Agent Johnson)

 

[BAM-BAM]

I simply tell them I am an attorney, that I charge $150 per hour with a 2-hour minimum, and ask for their billing address. Click

d---- you work cheap!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pittpa]

I just tell all those unknown callers, after they finish asking for whomever....

This is Special Agent Johnson with the FBI.

How can I help you? Immediate click.

Works every time, especially with the IRS and Microsoft scammers.



Stu (aka Special Agent Johnson)

I heard that Impersonating a police officer or federal agent is a crime. But nobody here has a problem with that. However, answering "last name, homicide" seems like it would be just as effective. You might be the receptionist.


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[BUFF]

When I was hired as a deputy sheriff, the uniform required a whistle lanyard, that chain-like cord you see running from the shoulder to a shirt pocket, so I thought I needed a whistle, too. I bought an Acme Thunderer, billed then as the world' loudest whistle. It I indeed loud.

I found it (again) last week. On the last five soliciting/sales calls I got, when the voice comes on line and it's apparent what they want, I give them a good blast.

I think I enjoy it more than they do.

 

[vytoland]

my answering machine routinely deals with sales and crazies ....the rare times i personally answer the phone and it is an annoyance . my response to the caller insures that they never bother me again

 

[Old TexMex]

"Bravo 16? Your access code please, I'll route you through to the embassy immediately. He's waiting for your call."

I get some awkward answers, or nothing at all.

 

[Rule3]

Watch it! A TV station ran a feature on how most such contacts are frauds. Call the IRS and report the contact.

The reporter said the IRS doesn't work that way.

Yes, I know.

They ALL are frauds. It's a ROBO CALL, no names given and no opt out number. You can't even answer it you must call the number.

My call block total is full so a few slip through. If I want more blockage I need to pay extra, I tried to cancel my land line but also get internet. It would actually cost MORE to get rid of the phone and just have internet??????

No worries I am on top of it!

 

[Cyrano]

One of the salesmen from Bangladesh who calls me regularly has a very noticable voice. The second time he called me one day I answered: "Oh God, not you again!" and hung up on him. It's been several days, he hasn't called back.

 

[venomballistics]

Yes, I know.

They ALL are frauds. It's a ROBO CALL, no names given and no opt out number. You can't even answer it you must call the number.

My call block total is full so a few slip through. If I want more blockage I need to pay extra, I tried to cancel my land line but also get internet. It would actually cost MORE to get rid of the phone and just have internet??????

No worries I am on top of it!

Well, the bundle might give you a live phone jack but you don't necessarily need to have a phone plugged into it

 

[chud333]

Can't stand em' Bill

We dropped our land line and the wife and i have our own phones
but we still get these crazies calling us. Usually about a past due
bill from someone else.
I just tell them to go pound sand.
Then i'll block the number in my phone and get on with life.
Yesterday i got a call from some Indian dude that couldn't
speak english for ****.
I could hear loud music and children playing and screaming
in the background. I believe it was a combo day care center
and call center somewhere in Mumbai or Delhi.

Give me a break.....


Chuck

 

[rwsmith]

I get some collector calls.....

Both former next door neighbor girls get calls from collection agencies looking for them. But I know they are fishing when I hear "Teresa Smith'. About once a year for the last 20 years I get calls for her and I have no idea who she is. They must call everybody in the phone book named Smith whenever she screws somebody out of something.

 

[rwsmith]

Got a call from Microsoft again....

Indian guy tells me he is getting errors from my computer and want to type in what he tells me. Yeah, right.

 

[Broke Hoss]

This guy is my hero:

https://youtu.be/r7jBegRJtXI


He has several dealing with telemarketers. Another favorite:

https://youtu.be/i_CVqCfRUBA