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A Perfect Phone Call (True Story)

Snake45

Snake45

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This is a true story, and happened this morning. The Lovely Mrs. Snake heard it all, and can testify.


Setup: This is the time of year when, if you are an American over 65, you will get many, MANY phone calls trying to sell you "Medicare supplemental insurance." The tipoff that these are sales calls is the word "Medicare." NO ONE from Medicare will ever call you for any reason. If you need to talk to them, YOU have to call THEM (and probably wait on line for hours, but that's not what I'm here to tell you). ANY mention of Medicare IS a sales call. The vast majority of these are recorded robo-calls, but every now and then one will be a real live person, which I take as an opportunity to have some fun. Okay, here we go.


CALLER: (In very slight Indian accent)"Good morning, sir, this is Carol with Medicare assistance. How are you today?"

ME: (In happy, upbeat mood) "Hi, Carol, I'm doing great! What are you wearing?"

CALLER: (After a few seconds) "I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you. What did you say?"

ME: (Still happy and upbeat) "I said Hi, Carol, I'm doing great! What are you wearing?"

CALLER: (After a pause of a few more seconds) "Sir, that is NONE of your business!!!"

ME: (Still happy and upbeat) "Hey, YOU called ME!"

CALLER: "F*** you!"(Click)


I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants.
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Feel free to try this yourself. You'll be glad you did!
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all sorts of companies sell our information, unless we remember to "opt out" when we do business with them.

in many states, the DMV will sell our information, if at least our age, not our actual birth date.

names, addresses, and age, get sold, and it's all perfectly legal too, again, unless we "opt out" of such disclosure.

"Public records. Your data from court records, voting records, divorce records, and city/state/federal records made at least partially available to the public. Data brokers take advantage of it to collect everything they can in their databases.
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this money then goes to the state "general fund" at least here it does.

also, many companies get our names from voter registration lists.

so, once (say for instance) a health insurer buys a list of names, from (say) our DMV's, they then cold call for a sale of thier product(s).

for me, I Called Ble Cross/Blue Shield for an upgrade to my coverage.

or, as shoppers, WE HAVE to call the insurance companies that have Medicare Advantage plans

unless we have done business with whomever calls, as in to follow up on our visit or our calling them, then it's known as "cold calling".

(very long read, but in-depth)

www.privacyaffairs.com

How Do Sales of Personal Data Work and How to Prevent It

In this guide we will show you how businesses scrape and sell your personal data and will help you how to prevent this and how to protect yourself.
www.privacyaffairs.com www.privacyaffairs.com
 
dude i am using that one ..

i usually lay phone up to televisions speaker and let them chat.


what gets my GOAT ....is we are on tricare, and medicare and va... so no we are not eligible for the medicare plans as tricare is our medicare supplement.... as soon as they hear those words... its CLICK...not even a thankyou
 
Snake45 said:
This is a true story, and happened this morning. The Lovely Mrs. Snake heard it all, and can testify.


Setup: This is the time of year when, if you are an American over 65, you will get many, MANY phone calls trying to sell you "Medicare supplemental insurance." The tipoff that these are sales calls is the word "Medicare." NO ONE from Medicare will ever call you for any reason. If you need to talk to them, YOU have to call THEM (and probably wait on line for hours, but that's not what I'm here to tell you). ANY mention of Medicare IS a sales call. The vast majority of these are recorded robo-calls, but every now and then one will be a real live person, which I take as an opportunity to have some fun. Okay, here we go.


CALLER: (In very slight Indian accent)"Good morning, sir, this is Carol with Medicare assistance. How are you today?"

ME: (In happy, upbeat mood) "Hi, Carol, I'm doing great! What are you wearing?"

CALLER: (After a few seconds) "I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you. What did you say?"

ME: (Still happy and upbeat) "I said Hi, Carol, I'm doing great! What are you wearing?"

CALLER: (After a pause of a few more seconds) "Sir, that is NONE of your business!!!"

ME: (Still happy and upbeat) "Hey, YOU called ME!"

CALLER: "F*** you!"(Click)


I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants.
:lol:
:lol:
:lol:


Feel free to try this yourself. You'll be glad you did!
B)
:lol:
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I’d tell you what I used to say to Indian spam callers but it would definitely get me banned. 🤣
 
Lol thats pretty good. Will have to remember that one.

Last time I got a call from a company supposedly selling windows wanting Stop by that day to look at mine.

I said, windows? You have windows? Oh I would love to have windows. They won't give me a window. They say I will just escape again.

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in the end? this is why i still have an old answering machine, and we turn the "ringer off" as not to hear.

we check the caller ID often for a call we do need to answer at a later time.

our kids, and grandkids give us a quick text, "answer", and that's when we pick up the phone.

otherwise, once any telemarketer calls, all they get is 2 short rings, and a robotic voice telling them to leave a message...


dang, we never get any messages..!!!
 
I also like to "entertain" the religious people who stop by in the summer months as well. This past summer I came home from work with a wicked migraine, Wife was out shopping so I had the house to myself. Lying on the couch nursing my head, my 2 loyal, protective German Shepherds go charging out to the gate barking and there were two guys and a lady they asked if they could come in and speak about the LORD if I wasn't busy so I replied no I am not busy I was just watching transgender midgets run track on the internet and with that they never came back....
 
wolfpack076 said:
I also like to "entertain" the religious people who stop by in the summer months as well. This past summer I came home from work with a wicked migraine, Wife was out shopping so I had the house to myself. Lying on the couch nursing my head, my 2 loyal, protective German Shepherds go charging out to the gate barking and there were two guys and a lady they asked if they could come in and speak about the LORD if I wasn't busy so I replied no I am not busy I was just watching transgender midgets run track on the internet and with that they never came back....
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i like midget bowling myself.
 
I used to get mad when the scammers called and then I decided I was going to turn the tables on them.

When I answer the phone and after a few seconds I hear BLOOP and they start talking , I know it is a scammer. So they go through there little spiel and I say , " Hello scammer !" Sir I am not a scammer . " you are a scammer so own up to it." Then most times they start cussing so I laugh and tell them there is no need to get butt hurt with more laughing.

I can't put on the forum everything I say to them but I know I have done well when they start cussing. 😊
 

Snake45​

You're such a better person than I am. The last "Medicare" call we got I yelled get someone that speaks bleeping English, then I afraid I got rude before I hung up.
When I worked it was well known not to call me at home unless there was a riot or an escape. Couple of years ago a co-worker call the house. The Mrs. answered, he asked for me and then said "tell him to be nice to me". She did just that, so loudly that he could hear. Boy, was he embarrassed. OfCourse being the nice guy I am I didn't ride him, every chance I got, like a stolen bicycle about trying to turn a man's wife against him till the day I retired. :devilish:
 
I don't answer calls from numbers I don't know, that's why I have voicemail and that, in itself, is quite entertaining. At one point last year, the IRS was after me for back taxes (total BS), Customs and Border Patrol had a warrant out for my arrest, and there were a couple of others that weren't quite as creative. They rarely leave messages now...bummer. Mr. Snake, I will have to get my husband to take a page out of your PITA caller response book. He usually gets ticked off and tells them he's on a no call list and that the caller is committing a felony calling him. He does need to lighten up.

I have to say though...I love the "What are you wearing?" thing! If I were a guy..... :ROFLMAO:
 
belladonna said:
I don't answer calls from numbers I don't know, that's why I have voicemail and that, in itself, is quite entertaining. At one point last year, the IRS was after me for back taxes (total BS), Customs and Border Patrol had a warrant out for my arrest, and there were a couple of others that weren't quite as creative. They rarely leave messages now...bummer. Mr. Snake, I will have to get my husband to take a page out of your PITA caller response book. He usually gets ticked off and tells them he's on a no call list and that the caller is committing a felony calling him. He does need to lighten up.

I have to say though...I love the "What are you wearing?" thing! If I were a guy..... :ROFLMAO:
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It's probably as effective or maybe more effective being a lady. :ROFLMAO:
 
belladonna said:
I have to say though...I love the "What are you wearing?" thing! If I were a guy..... :ROFLMAO:
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The beauty of it is, it's filthy without being legally obscene (maybe I'm just interested in fashion). And that's why my follow-up line is always "Hey, YOU called ME!" Makes it pretty difficult to pin a charge of "making obscene phone calls" on me. (These days, you cannot be TOO paranoid. ;) )

The REALLY fun part is that SHE might get in trouble at HER end for yelling "F*** YOU!" at a potential customer. Or maybe SHE'LL just have a great story to tell today/tonight. ;) :LOL:
 
I gotta call from Publishers Clearinghouse saying I won 350,000.00 dollars. Which I have never intered. He asked if I wanted local news crews to be notified. I said sure. He asked for my address,, which I said he should already know. He said he had it, I just needed to verify. I gave him a phoney address. He replied that it was correct. I kept waiting for the hook. He kept going on and on. Finally he said he needed 400.00 and was ready for my CC. I told him to take it out of the 350 thousand. He said he couldn't do that. He kept saying he needed to pay the delivery drivers in the van. They could be at my house at 3pm. He Finally got down to 50 dollars just for gas money again wanting my CC number. I finally said after bout 45 minutes, I didn't have a CC. He cussed me out & hung up.
 
Y'all are hilarious!!! I have been laughing all day. Personally, I used an answering machine before the smartphone. Now I let Google screen my calls. If it is important, they will leave a message. Scammers never leave a message.
 
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