Interesting Scam

[BigBoy99]

I had an interesting spam call. They were trying to sell final life insurance which would take care of funeral expenses. She was going on and on about how I needed this insurance for final expenses. I told her I wasn't going to die. Silence on the other end. I repeated again that I didn't need their insurance because I wasn't going to die. They hung up.

 

[MattinSC]

They can take your money, but they can't take a joke







Nicely done.

 

[kozmic]

If someone cold calls you with the scam dujour you are morally obligated to provide them with the most outrageous, most bazaar reply as possible. This serves 2 purposes. It give the caller a very clear message that you're not interested in their scam and you get a cheap thrill to share with your forum mates. Win/win!

 

[SMSgt]

I sell scuba lessons to the guy trying to extend my vehicle warranty. I never let him get a word in.

 

[45Smashemflat]

Is that the verbal equivalent of stuffing coffee filters and other trash in those pre-paid envelopes in junk mail and sending them back?

 

[duke2002]

I always got a kick out of the guy that used to be on bob & tom. The revenge of the telemarketer cant remember his name. The one where the place calls and is selling pre paid funerals lol!!

 

[Tom S.]

I ask how soon I can get the policy 'cause I'm in hospice and only have about a week.
<click>

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Can’t believe you guys actually talk to these folks!
You can actually take SCUBA lessons here in Albuquerque.
Most classes start in local swimming pools.
Then you go big time!
The Blue Hole near Santa Rosa, NM.
It’s a spring fed sinkhole.
Have I mentioned there’s a bunch of weird stuff in NM?

 

[16thVACav]

I always got a kick out of the guy that used to be on bob & tom. The revenge of the telemarketer cant remember his name. The one where the place calls and is selling pre paid funerals lol!!

Tom Mabe

 

[Rudi]

I almost never answer. But when I do it's open season.

 

[Doriangray6]

My home phone, I don't own a cell phone, runs through a no frills answering machine and even if I'm sitting next to it when it rings I don't pick it up until and unless I hear someone talking.
If it's someone I want to talk with I'll pick up and if not I just let the machine do it's job.

 

[OutAtTheEdge]

"Final expenses", LOL. If my bride "precedes me", and assuming I can see the end coming, my final expenses are probably going to be in the form of an immense credit card bill. Ya'll will definitely be invited to the party.

 

[Model29-26.5]

I always send them to my website. That is if I have already made the mistake of picking up the phone..

 

[65-2x2]

When I was a young man, I was getting calls, every night at supper time, trying to sell me a local cemetery plot. The calls originated in town. I told them to take me off their list for about the fifth time. When the phone rang the next night, at supper time, I answered and told the caller, that whoever owned that cemetery might just need a plot sooner than expected if they called me again. No more calls. Yea, I was young, dumb and pissed.

I dropped life insurance when the kids left college and home. The home place is paid for, it cost less than two thousand dollars for cremation, no big gig follows the cremation. Nobody has a reason to kill me for either the insurance or the inheritance so I sleep better at night, not for the safety of my situation, but because I am not sending the insurance company money. Depriving the insurance company makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

I admit that I like to have fun with these people. My girlfriend says that what I used to do is rude, and I haven't done it in a while because my cell phone screens out spam calls.

They start talking and I interrupt.....

OH! HELLO! Don't be alarmed, but I know where you live and I'm coming to kill you.........and your little dog, too!!!!

I said I wouldn't do that anymore, but temptation is removed when these spammers can't get through.

 

[Retired W4]

I admit that I like to have fun with these people. My girlfriend says that what I used to do is rude, and I haven't done it in a while because my cell phone screens out spam calls.

They start talking and I interrupt.....



I said I wouldn't do that anymore, but temptation is removed when these spammers can't get through.

I can't even repeat what my friend in Ohio says to those scammers, but it has to do with his...nope, I can't say it. I'll get kicked off the forum. Pretty graphic, if you know what I mean. Thin ice.

 

[fiasconva]

Oh Boy! I sure hope I get that call. I'm gonna tell them I've already invested in a wood chipper.

 

[Protocall_Design]

I tell them - I don't need anything related to funerals. Since I can't take it with me, I'M NOT GOING!!! That ends the call.

 

[65-2x2]

I admit that I like to have fun with these people. My girlfriend says that what I used to do is rude, and I haven't done it in a while because my cell phone screens out spam calls.

They start talking and I interrupt.....



I said I wouldn't do that anymore, but temptation is removed when these spammers can't get through.

Like it is not rude for them to call you...

 

[lihpster]

My best friend and I put $250 each into a coffee can several years ago. Survivor uses it for beer and hot dogs. Nothing fancy or formal, just friends around a fire, saying, "You remember the time he.....". Either way, should be a heck of a party.