Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Marc St Louis on June 20, 2017, 04:31:29 pm
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So here's the thing. We had just finished our lunch when my wife and I decided to have a tea and coffee in our 3 season porch, she likes tea and I coffee. My wife put the kettle on to boil and we went and sat down in the porch. When it started to boil I went in and prepared her tea, she likes mint honey and milk, then brought it out to her. Then I went back in and was just about to get my coffee ready when the phone rang. I picked it up and a man's voice with a thick accent said "hello Mr. Louis but quickly changed that to Mr. St Louis. I said "hello". Then he starts to mumble something which finished Microsoft. I knew I was in for a line then. He asked " are you in front of your computer right now?" I said "no". He then asked " are you the primary user of the Microsoft computer?" I said "maybe". That kind of threw him for a second. He said " I don't understand your answer, are you the primary user of the Microsoft computer? " Again I said "maybe". By this time I could hear my wife starting to laugh a bit in the other room. He then said " I don't understand this maybe ". So I said " your question assumes that I am the only person in the house ". This reply also kind of flummoxed him but he moved on from that. He then said something along the lines of "you know when you go online you can get scammed". I said " yes I know this ". He said " you know this ? " I said "yes of course". Now my wife really started to laugh on the other side and this made me chuckle a bit. So I decided to ask him " what do you want? " This really put him off and he went quiet. After a minute or so of no sound from the other end I said "hello?". He said " yes?" So I said " you haven't answered my question". By this time I was starting to laugh a bit. He said " yes I did". I said " I didn't hear anything". My wife was really laughing hard by this time and so was I. He then said " are you laughing at me?" I didn't say anything, I was laughing too hard by this time. Then he said "stop laughing at me you Mother F******g Bas****d which made me laugh even harder, but I'd had enough by this time and said "goodbye" and hung up. I have to say it was an amusing few minutes
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It's fun to screw with them when you have a few minutes to spare.
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It's fun to screw with them when you have a few minutes to spare.
Yes good fun..
Thanks Leroy
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Reading that just had me giggling. ;D Way to take a potentially annoying situation and turn it into something amusing! ;)
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I love listening to my daughter when she talks to them. They usually hang up. She starts out by asking them what they are wearing and then keeps interrupting asking them to take off articles of clothing, since she would be more comfortable talking to them if they were naked like her. It doesn't go much farther than that. ;D
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I love listening to my daughter when she talks to them. They usually hang up. She starts out by asking them what they are wearing and then keeps interrupting asking them to take off articles of clothing, since she would be more comfortable talking to them if they were naked like her. It doesn't go much farther than that. ;D
Does she get $2.99 a minute from them?
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Yep that's a good one.Usually the first word out of their mouth I know they are a stranger and they want something.Then the game begins.
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If the first word is "Mr" followed then by one of the usual mis-pronunciations of my last name,I just tell them can'ttalkgottagobye...
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I sometimes just lay the phone to the side and leave them on the line for a hour or so. I love messing with them sometimes, sometimes I just ant it the mood. ;)
Pappy
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When the Son was younger I used to hand the phone to him and tell him he has a call. :OK
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I usually just hang up but not yesterday
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I got one of those "Windows" calls the other day, I went into my backwoods east Tennessee voice when the gal asked if I had windows on my computer. I said "winders, I don't see any of thme thar winders, just a black box with some lites flashin', don't see no reason for winders on a computer, thar ain't nothin' for one to see inside that box anyway".
Of course the gal from India was a bit conflicted, on one hand she wanted to complete her pitch but suspected she was talking to a complete idiot.
I carried the lack of windows theme on for a while and she finally just hung up.
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Question JW, how do you know the cost $2.99 per minute :-\ :o
Pappy
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Nice job, Marc. I love making those idiots squirm.
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I put a feature called "Nomorobo" on my phone and get very few completed calls now. Nomorobo lets the phone ring once and gives the caller the message "this call has been blocked by nomorobo".
An actual telemarketing person calling can get through occasionally.
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I had one of those India windows people call me a "stupid Pakistani" because I told him I didn't own a computer (all true work provides mine)
If I have time I sometimes waste theirs. Our land line is only a year or so old and unlisted so half the calls think I am the old person. I like the "you stayed at our resort" ones who can't tell me my name. I always ask them how do they know I stayed there if you don't know who I am? Also had a guy trying to sell me a car warranty. Spent fifteen of his minutes before telling him I wasn't Mr Scott and didn't need a warranty.
Hey they called me so it's their fault if I waste their time
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I don't know how true it is but I would love to think it is, a friend posted on FB that he had gotten one of those calls, he's a programmer running a linux setup, so he quickly banged together a virtual windows machine in a sandbox environment and played along with the call, as soon as the scammers connected to his fake machine he started backtracing the connection and about fifteen minutes into this guy "fixing" his "windows computer" he pushed the button and shut down the scammers entire call center network, lol.
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Sounds super geeky, but I LOVE it.
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I don't know how true it is but I would love to think it is, a friend posted on FB that he had gotten one of those calls, he's a programmer running a linux setup, so he quickly banged together a virtual windows machine in a sandbox environment and played along with the call, as soon as the scammers connected to his fake machine he started backtracing the connection and about fifteen minutes into this guy "fixing" his "windows computer" he pushed the button and shut down the scammers entire call center network, lol.
Amazing, I've got to try that some day. But I barely answer calls..
You mean he reported them?
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You mean he reported them?
No, he hacked their system and wiped their database and killed their VoIP. ;D :OK 8)
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Where can I get one? :-K
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Good one!
Love messing with them when they bother me.
I received a call from a telemarketer one time. Sounded like he was calling from another Country. He asked if I wanted to save on the cost of electric? I answered that I was Amish and was not permitted to have a phone or electric. He said he was very sorry to bother me.
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You mean he reported them?
No, he hacked their system and wiped their database and killed their VoIP. ;D :OK 8)
Wow. I'm curious about the details of what he exploited.
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was not permitted to have a phone or electric. He said he was very sorry to bother me.
Guess their not hired for their brains. What did he think you were talking on a tin can and a string?
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Question JW, how do you know the cost $2.99 per minute :-\ :o
Pappy
I was broke and needed the money! Don't judge me!
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Years ago I had a woman call wanting to sell me encyclopedias. I was polite and tried telling her I wasn't interested several times but she kept pushing. Finally I told her that the reason that I didn't want them was because I couldn't read. I told her I was very embarrassed about it and her phone call had really upset me. She kept apologizing over and over. She stayed on the phone for quite a while giving me a "pep talk" and trying to cheer me back up. It was an entertaining call.
My Dad likes to interrupt them and start telling them about all the junk he has around his house that he would sell them. They get the point pretty quick. Sometimes he will tell them he is busy but if they give him their home phone number he will call them back later. They don't like that.
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I sometimes just lay the phone to the side and leave them on the line for a hour or so. I love messing with them sometimes, sometimes I just ant it the mood. ;)
Pappy
I use to do that when I still had a land line. Put the phone under the seat cushions so they couldn't hear. They couldn't hang up. Put them out of order for a couple hours.
Bjrogg
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I saw on the news tonight that a guy from Miami was busted by the FBI for sending out 39 million robo calls in the last 3 months. When convicted he can be fines $150 million. This guy would make the calls and pass them on to people in Mexico that would talk folks out of their credit card numbers.
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I'm with you guys OO ,bjrogg,and pappy.I've made them pay with their time those ways too.
Funny story here not related to phone calls but to people taking your time from you and that's what this boils down to to me.
Once while coming home late from coon hunting a highway patrolman stops me.I was weaving apparently.Tired and sleepy I was trying to get home at a moderate speed.This dickhead has me get out of the truck hands on my truck and frisks me.I can understand his safety precautions but I'm sitting their with a wheat light on a helmet/dogs in dog box in back.I carried my battery for my light at that time under my arm pit with a homemade gun holster method.I had'nt drank for over 30 years and was completely aware of this dud.
He feels the battery and says what's that?I say it's my light battery.Oh he says.He feels farther by my waist and says what's that?I say it's my pliers.I farm down the road here.Oh he says.He has me sit in his car.I get to talking with him about coondogs so much and that he should try it.I had one for sale.He was glad to get rid of me.
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Good point Pat.
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Not my own story but my wife told me a good one once. She got a call from a salesman when she was young trying to sell her a vacuum cleaner by telling her how good it was cleaning carpets. She told him she lived in an apartment and didn't have any rugs only wood floors so he asked her what she cleaned her floors with. She told him with a broom but he misunderstood and though she had said witch broom so she said " yes I'm a Witch and I fly around on my broom all day after cleaning my floors". Apparently he had a good laugh over that one and it made his day so she said to him " well you got my number so call back anytime".