Interesting Scam

[hdfinder47]

I always ask if the death benefit can be used for just the funeral and burial or can it be used for the wake also. When they say "well, I guess so" I inform them that I want the $50,000 policy 'cuz I want an open bar and topless dancing girls and that gets expensive. That usually dissuades them.

 

[mtgianni]

At my wifes' family reunion last week the local town was having a fair. There was a man there selling coffins for $400, pure stained pine and rope handles guaranteed up to 400 lbs. That price is tough to beat.

 

[BigBoy99]

At my wifes' family reunion last week the local town was having a fair. There was a man there selling coffins for $400, pure stained pine and rope handles guaranteed up to 400 lbs. That price is tough to beat.

They were probably only slightly used, second one ones!!

 

[Doug M.]

I keep getting calls from Allstate for some reason. All that does is make them an enemy. One started off with "this is (name)from Allstate, how are you today?" My answer tends to be something like "I was doing fine until I got this scam phone call", and hang up. Depending on the scam (as I perceive it), I may make some unkind comments about self-affection and an unusual level of flexibility, or some Ermey inspired indelicate description of their social utility, such that their parents should have been celibate or some more
inflammatory unkindness to that effect.

 

[Thaddeus Beauregard]

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!

I like to act interested, but speak with an extreme stutter so that it takes forever to say a simple sentence and really wastes a lot of their time. They are then faced with whether to stay on the line with an "interested" gullible customer who speaks painfully slowly, with 3 sentences taking 5 minutes to get through, or looking like an ass for getting angry over my "disability" that I can't help.

 

[wproct]

My 94 year old mom gets these calls, shes polite and listens to them. I finally gave her a script to read "oh wait a minute my son just walked in - he will know he's an FBI agent - click- gone LOL

Now that is clever! I like it.

 

[Cities n Dust]

Most of the time I like to mail prepaid envelopes with a lot of blank paper so that way it can cost more for metered mailing. When I feel like taking spam calls I usually act as if I'm drunk and yell at my wife and kids as if I'm insane. My wife laughs and I have no kids. They hang up quickly. If I get returnable mail I usually return to sender with in blk magic marker telling them I am dead. It stops for about a year then starts back up again.

Cities

 

[imashooter2]

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!

The proper response is "wow! Let me go find my credit card!" Then put the phone down and go about your business until they hang up.

 

[mtgianni]

My standard answer is "I ain't too drunk to fish". That usually lets people know that I am not interested and gives a cause to contest any charges due to competence.

 

[Rustyt1953]

It still baffles me how in this day and age with the proliferation of phone scams and caller ID that anyone would answer a call from a number you don't recognize.

 

[biku324]

At my wifes' family reunion last week the local town was having a fair. There was a man there selling coffins for $400, pure stained pine and rope handles guaranteed up to 400 lbs. That price is tough to beat.

The Trappists charge 4x - 6x as much.
https://trappistcaskets.com/caskets/#csksmplshap

 

[Marshwheeling]

"Hold it. Before I can talk to you I need your name, callback number, SSN, and your GPS coordinates."

 

[bk42261]

Just got one tonight-
Blah blah blah, "so is this the correct number for you"?
Me- You called me so you tell me.
Her- But is this your phone number?
Me- You called me and I answered, so you tell me
CLICK!

 

[Thaddeus Beauregard]

I can't believe that there are enough gullible people out there who fall for these scam calls, emails, and texts. Obviously there must be enough numbskulls who do, or they wouldn't persist. I would also feel shameful if I had to depend on doing deceitful and unethical garbage like that to make a living.