[rwest]

Just got the “Veronica” scam call again tonight (on the work cell phone). They call and ask for Veronica, when you say they must have the wrong number, they say, “that’s okay, maybe you can help me.” Every other time I just hung up, tonight I was feeling like an arse, so said, “sure, just a minute, I’ll get her”.

So he starts saying that it’s okay, he can talk to me, I say, no worries, she’s just getting out of the shower and will be right there. I go back down to the basement where I ran up from to get what I thought was an emergency call from work and kept looking for the tool I went down there for; couple minutes later I go up stairs and say she’s just about coming to the phone. Go back downstairs again and find the tool.

Come back in a minute or so and in my best woman’s voice, “Hi, this is Veronica.” The starts his spiel on hail damaged roof repair- Veronica says “oh, we rent and don’t have anything to do with replacing the roof.” Call ended pleasantly with a total time wasted of the scammer of about five minutes.