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Anyone ever get these strange phone calls?
Over the past few weeks I've received several strange phone calls, but due to luck they've all gone to VM. The person on the other end has that bored sound, like they're reading from a script for the millionth time:
Hello [name] this is [some weird name] calling from [can't discern due to accent] calling to tell you that [you've won|we have a check for you] for [large amount of money]. You must please call us at XXX XXX-XXXX as soon as possible. Congratulations on your good fortune, have a blessed day I got one just a few minutes ago, but I was on the other line and it went to VM. I know it's a scam, but it seems like a lot of work for a scam.
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01-10-2008, 09:29 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Napa, Ca
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I heard if you key in ########## when you get a recorded telemarketing call, it gets your number removed from the system.
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01-10-2008, 09:33 AM
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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
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The scam is that to claim your money you either have to pay, or you call a number that charges something like $10 a minute or $25 a minute or something ridiculous like that. People do call, it's amazing what greed and stupidity will allow someone to do.
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01-10-2008, 10:08 AM
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01-10-2008, 10:23 AM
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01-10-2008, 11:23 AM
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A Man of Wealth and Taste
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Out there somewhere beyond the doors of perception
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I just keep getting calls from Bill Collectors...they are looking for some guy by the name of Dotson...I told them he was dead, murdered by an angry husband while fking the guys wife.
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01-10-2008, 11:35 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
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Do you get hang ups?
Hitting VM is actually a Telemarketing tactic. They don't want to speak to you live the 1st time. If they don't get Vmail they hang up. Rationale is if it's on Vmail they may have a better chance of you listening to the entire pitch.
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"I want my two dollars" "Goodbye and thanks for the fish" "Proud Member and Supporter of the YWL" "Brandon Won" |
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01-10-2008, 11:41 AM
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Ever get the vm that starts out "Please press 1 to listen to this important message from so and so."? I love deleting those. I don't open junk mail and I make it a rule to never ever give my business to anyone who sticks a flyer on my front door knob, which happens several times a week.
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01-10-2008, 11:53 AM
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The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
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I hate the "coupon" stickers that they now slap on the front of your daily paper.
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"I want my two dollars" "Goodbye and thanks for the fish" "Proud Member and Supporter of the YWL" "Brandon Won" |
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01-10-2008, 12:16 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
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I used to get the "breather"??
Never said a word. I assume it was my closet-homosexual Congressman? (Not that there's anything wrong with that!)
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01-11-2008, 05:48 AM
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Only Porsche
Only bike
