How to mess with telemarketers

[Shades]

When they ask for me by name I say very clearly....
"I'm sorry, I'm not here right now...."
They usually get a little confused by this and a few have actually tried to figure out if I was really there or not!

 

[blackrock13]

That one's a classic! Even though I've heard it before I still laugh my ass off.

I'm hurting Soooo Bad after listening to that. My face hurts, my gut hurts, my scrot' hurts from my laughing. That ladies and gentleman is an artist at work and a masterpiece for sure.

 

[Timbit]

I have client, a woman who is 94 years old and sharp as a tack. Her voice though sounds like she's 94. So when she gets a telemarketer calling, she acts all old on them and pretends she can't remember what they were saying and gets them to repeat themselves so often that they usually end up hanging up. When she told me the story, she was killing herself laughing!

Timbit

 

[Moraff]

Update to my original post:

Make sure you know for sure that its a telemarketer before you start messing with them.

I got a call earlier today from so 'n' so at the CRA. They spoke quickly and I didn't quite catch the CRA part. By the time they got mad enough at me to say Canada Revenue Agency, we were really off on the wrong foot. The rest of the conversation did not go as well as I had hoped.

I'm thinking there's an audit in my future.

Were you already in touch with CRA over something? Generally speaking they do not call you on the phone when they are looking for info... they send you letter(s) so as to have the paper trail.

Might not have been CRA but someone posing as them to phish your info....