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RILib

(862 posts)
12. what I do
Wed Feb 27, 2013, 08:41 AM
Feb 2013

I had no success with phone scammers when I asked nicely for no more calls. I had no success yelling. I had no success pretending to be senile and asking them to wait (forever) while I got my credit card.

Now I push the buttons that say I want to talk to someone and then I cover the phone microphone and just listen to them saying their thing ending with hello? hello? This is less work than my senile impersonation.

This has reduced my anger level considerably, since I'm wasting as much of their time as they're wasting of mine.

(I get 1-2 calls a day from our friends Heather or Rachel at card services, or the FBI trying to sell me a free security system, or calls targeted at Seniors. I actually got ticked off enough to phone the FCC and the lady told me that since these originate overseas, there is little they can do. DoNotCall list complaints are a no-op for these callers. I'm sure the government has the resources in the CIA to track these people; if I were Obama they'd wind up in Guantanamo.)

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