Not anything political

[sailaway78]

Last week, I learned of a new scam. I really don't think anyone on this board is stupid enough to go for it, but want to share anyway. Within a matter of a week, I received numerous calls, from 11 different numbers. Each one told me my loan has been approved. Amounts ranging from 2500 to 10,000. No guarantor, no co signer, no collateral. I was of course irritated at these stupid calls. These guys are not particularly good, but are very insistant. When I say, " I made no loan application", the answer was " Yes sir you did, I have it right here." And on and on. So, I started giving them bogus info. My bank and account numbers are both 9 digits, and I figure all banks are pretty close to the same. So to avoid screwing anyone else, I was giving them numbers of 18 digits for routing numbers, and 6 for account numbers. Hopefully I managed to screw up their program just a little bit. I also wrote down all numbers and called every entity I could think of to report this crap.

 

[Ralph Johnstone]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm .....................

Amounts ranging from 2500 to 10,000. No guarantor, no co signer, no collateral.

Did you manage to get a phone number ? ? ?

 

[sailaway78]

Yes I did

I got 11 phone numbers. And the area codes are from all over.

 

[Kermit]

The hang up button works well for me. And just in case that doesn't work well enough, I whistle EXTREMELY loud into the phone. It's ear-piercing, painful and potentially damaging. Only one person ever called back. She immediately got the same thing again.

I bet an air horn would accomplish the same thing.

 

[sailaway78]

Wasting their time

When I am in a certain mood, I play with these idiots. It is pretty east to get them confused, because they don't speak very good English, and don't understand many things. For example, I told one of them that yeah, I had got to town on my turnip truck this morning, and was looking for some financing. This really encouraged him. LOL

 

[Anonymous 121765]

When I'm bored, I like to f**k with these guys too.
When they ask for a name or head of household, I say, "one moment please I will get him/her". I then put the phone down & just walk away. I had one guy wait 10 minutes. I had the speakerphone on & could hear him breathing.

Or in a solemn voice, I tell them he/she passed away yesterday "CLICK". If you try to call these phone numbers back, most times it says the number is disconnected. I believe these calls are "bounced" like spam emails are. They bounce them thru multiple exchanges/servers.

Or, I speak in Italian, "CLICK".

The National Do Not Call site doesn't work all that well either. Many of these calls come from Eastern Europe & Asia. There is NO international group for enforcement & penalties. We need a world group of nations to crack down on these scumbags resulting in stiff prison sentences along with hefty fines.

CR

 

[Forrest15112]

I rarely get any solicitation calls anymore, but do get calls from every political pollster and every charitable organization out there. Actually, I get so few "legitimate" calls on my landline, that my teenage daughters ignore it when it rings. It's usually the school phone tree advising some news, the pharmacy, or one of the previous. I used to get a lot of those Nigerian royal family member emails a few years back. I came across this site one day, which gave me some inspiration to try to waste their time and get them to spend any money i could trying to hook me. I would reply excitedly to the monetary offer and then slowly start asking more and more ridiculous questions. They would reply every time asking for bank data, and I would start small talk or detail plans for a face to face meeting. I would send pictures of myself ( Don Knots, Gert Frobe, and several others), pic's of anything but my bank acct. Inspired by the website, I would send coded messages in the bank number like "UR2DUM2CURAm0R0N". I would use fax machines at work to receive bank "application" forms. I had a collection of email exchanges and lost it all in a hard drive crash. That was some funny stuff.

 

[Justin_NSA]

This is a classic recording of a guy messing with a telemarketer. Needs sound. It's hilarious! I wish I had the gift.

http://www.hark.com/clips/qlztssnyzk-telemarketer-calls-murder-scene

 

[Anonymous 121765]

Justin,

That is just TOO KOOL man.

I think I will use that approach the next time I get a tele-marketer.

Sure beats my, "He/she just passed away..............." technique

CR

 

[Old Puddle Pirate]

Tom mabe is realy funny he did that to afuneral home sellig prepaid funerals and told the guy it was a good time to call as he was trying to decide how to commit suicide. Any of his cd's will have you ROFLYAO

 

[sailaway78]

I absolutely love it

I absolutely love this. Don't know if I have what it takes to pull it off, but sure going to give it a try.

 

[Anonymous 121765]

Hey,

You're only limited to your imagination....

CR

 

[Anonymous 121765]

Talk about goofing on these callers, I just received an email from my buddy with this idea.
I can't wait to use it............

THE NEXT TIME YOU GET A CALL FROM A BLOCKED OR UNKNOWN NUMBER,
ANSWER IT AND WHISPER:

"IT'S DONE, BUT THERE'S BLOOD EVERYWHERE". THEN HANG UP!

CR

 

[Justin_NSA]

Last night I caught a rerun of Seinfeld. Jerry gets a call from a telmarketer and it goes like this:
Jerry picks up the phone and you hear "are you interested in a subscription to the New York Times?"
Jerry responds; "yes I am" and he hangs up.

 

[Justin_NSA]

I was perusing a local paper in Ft Walton Beach, Fl and came upon this tidbit. A website that is devoted to fighting back against scammers.

"So what is scambaiting? Well, put simply, you enter into a dialogue with scammers, simply to waste their time and resources. Whilst you are doing this, you will be helping to keep the scammers away from real potential victims and screwing around with the minds of deserving thieves"

419 Eater

 

[25yearslater]

I enjoy the robo calls asking for a name and address. The one I use is
Lucifer
666 Hell's Highway
Despair, NY
Another that I have used is Fritz McClanahan (My apology to anyone with that name) at Blissful Acres, Day Moan, Iowa which is funny as someone actually called back asking for Fritz. Then of course is the little darling whose parents think it is cute to have them answer the phone gag. Small squeeky voice - Hi, huh, what? Then walk away and leave the phone sit there.

 

[woodster]

i get calls from the Atlanta Journal Constitution our local newspaper in Atlanta selling subscriptions.....i don't usually take theses calls but i do this one every time..... i let him go through his spiel and then i tell him its a very good deal...then he ask me when i would like to start...then i say there is only one thing i would like to know....he says yes what is that ...i say do you have this in braille..... then there is dead silence for a while then he goes to apologizing...then he says they don't have it yet but he will put me on the list and as soon as they do he will contact me

 

[Doc_holiday]

I know it's just a person trying to feed his family with a terrible telemarketing job but just once I want to hit the mike with a long blast from an air horn. I don't want the guy to go deaf tho.

 

[justsomeguy]

Now there's an IRS scammer calling at 0630 trying to tell me I've got a problem with my taxes.

Well, of course I do.

 

[Justin_NSA]

Now there's an IRS scammer calling at 0630 trying to tell me I've got a problem with my taxes.

Well, of course I do.

LOL! Who doesn't! That's a target rich environment!