They will sell number to other scammers if they know number is a real person
What to do with scam phone calls?
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Scams and just persistent sales people. A pox on them.
My jive soul bro has fund sometimes by asking them if they are right with Jesus, they usually hang up pretty fast.
This one time, at band camp, I mean Hamilton I was getting ready to go to uni and I get a call from some guy selling those books of coupons.
Do you want to save money
No [I'm not stupid]
Then he goes on to list all the places they have coupons
I don't go to any of these places [true]
He just wouldn't let it go, so I out the phone down and proceeded to get ready, I can hear him talking to nobody for an extended period of time. When the voices stopped, I just hung up.
They don't fucking listen, so why should I give a shit
Most of the time I just say no and hang up, or not interested and when they don't get the hint hang up. I really should just hang up without a word, they have no respect for me, why should I for them.
One new thing these cunts do is give you a survey for this or that. Then later they tell you that you were entered into a raffle because of the survey and won and when could they come over to drop of the prize. Not mentioning what it is. It's like fuck off, don't waste my time. Probably either a coupon for some inflated service I don't need or some BS prize to give them an excuse to come to my door to sell me something on false pretenses.
While I am on a rant. Every time you do business somewhere they always hit you up with a survey sometimes with some prize involved which you have basically no chance of winning. Leave me the fuck along, I am not going to do your marketing for free, never mind most people just lie on these things. At least with Cineplex they flat out offer you a buck worth of points right away.
My jive soul bro has fund sometimes by asking them if they are right with Jesus, they usually hang up pretty fast.
This one time, at band camp, I mean Hamilton I was getting ready to go to uni and I get a call from some guy selling those books of coupons.
Do you want to save money
No [I'm not stupid]
Then he goes on to list all the places they have coupons
I don't go to any of these places [true]
He just wouldn't let it go, so I out the phone down and proceeded to get ready, I can hear him talking to nobody for an extended period of time. When the voices stopped, I just hung up.
They don't fucking listen, so why should I give a shit
Most of the time I just say no and hang up, or not interested and when they don't get the hint hang up. I really should just hang up without a word, they have no respect for me, why should I for them.
One new thing these cunts do is give you a survey for this or that. Then later they tell you that you were entered into a raffle because of the survey and won and when could they come over to drop of the prize. Not mentioning what it is. It's like fuck off, don't waste my time. Probably either a coupon for some inflated service I don't need or some BS prize to give them an excuse to come to my door to sell me something on false pretenses.
While I am on a rant. Every time you do business somewhere they always hit you up with a survey sometimes with some prize involved which you have basically no chance of winning. Leave me the fuck along, I am not going to do your marketing for free, never mind most people just lie on these things. At least with Cineplex they flat out offer you a buck worth of points right away.
If you have a Google Pixel phone, then their "Call Screen" feature is amazing for this! 90% of the scammers will just hang up when they hear Google respond.
I once got a call from a CRA scammer just before 5 a few weeks before X-Mas.
I was tempted to call them back and ask if they honestly expected me to believe that even the most dedicated government employee would make a call like that so close to quitting time on a Friday and starting legal proceedings a couple weeks before most government offices would be shutting down for the holidays.
I was tempted to call them back and ask if they honestly expected me to believe that even the most dedicated government employee would make a call like that so close to quitting time on a Friday and starting legal proceedings a couple weeks before most government offices would be shutting down for the holidays.
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OK. basically it says I don't speak Mandarin. I actually said "I'm sorry. I don't speak Mandarin" Which phonetically spelt sounds to me like "dui bushi. Wo bo hweshwa potungqua" potungqua means "the people's language"
I just tried using google translate on my phone and it sounds just like how I thought it should sound.
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It's been done by the Kids in the Hall
Another amusing thing you can do is go to a Chinese person and say something in Japanese like Konnichiwa and when you get the "I'm Chinese not Japanese" hit them with a big long apology speech in Chinese. Ah how could I be so stupid, so on so forth.
Other fun things. When meeting a Korean seem REALLY happy but instead of going on about Kpop and Kdrama say, "Korean! OMG I bet you must LOVE old time hockey. Eddie Shore, Red Horner, Gordie Howe huh? and enjoy the confusion. Doesn't work so well in Cornhell though there is a hockey school in town apparently it has a lot of Korean and Japanese students.
With an asian indian accent, "Hello, its Paul calling from Rogers."
I say, "No, its Tahir calling from Chennai, how's the weather there?"
click
Sounds like a lot of work. "I'm Chinese not Japanese" Reminds me of an old joke about a Jewish guy and a Chinese guy on a train. Pearl Harbor comes into the conversation. But again. A lot of work just to tell it.
Meh, just have to learn a brutally hard language to a high level. Nothing to it.
I used to string them along every now and then, till I a) realized that by answering you are inviting more calls and b) reminded myself that the caller is just some poor bastard trying to make a living to feed himself and his family, the boss is actually the bad guy.
If the call looks like it is coming from Canada I have to answer for work. As soon as someone says something like "I am calling from Bell/Rogers/Duct cleaning/Visa fraud department" I tell them no they are not yell F off and hang up
They latest phone scam I've been getting is from people who pretend they're calling from Best Buy about recent repairs to my computer.
The same guy* has been doing all of my computer maintenance for 25 years, and he doesn't work for Best Buy. I don't stay on the phone long enough to find out what the scam is, but it probably involves downloading something.
One thing I've noticed is that with all of these scam calls, there's a brief pause after I answer the phone, followed by a sound like 'bloop'. I think that many phone numbers are called simultaneously, and any time someone answers the phone, the call is forwarded to one of the telescammers who isn't already speaking to someone. The 'bloop' sound would be when the incoming call is transferred.
*My geek is THE BEST when it comes to data recovery. If any of you have crucial data on a damaged disk, send me a PM, and I'll refer you to this guy - he's in central downtown Toronto.
The same guy* has been doing all of my computer maintenance for 25 years, and he doesn't work for Best Buy. I don't stay on the phone long enough to find out what the scam is, but it probably involves downloading something.
One thing I've noticed is that with all of these scam calls, there's a brief pause after I answer the phone, followed by a sound like 'bloop'. I think that many phone numbers are called simultaneously, and any time someone answers the phone, the call is forwarded to one of the telescammers who isn't already speaking to someone. The 'bloop' sound would be when the incoming call is transferred.
*My geek is THE BEST when it comes to data recovery. If any of you have crucial data on a damaged disk, send me a PM, and I'll refer you to this guy - he's in central downtown Toronto.
I get random calls as it is. Now the scam ones I do not have much time for. I just hang up. Luckily on my new number none of those yet. 
I rarely answer calls that mean nothing to me. I do a quick search of those numbers and all of them are internet based numbers, so I block them. But on those very rare occasions when I do answer I play along for a while and then I either tell them to F-off or better yet I have a referee's whistle and give them a very long, loud earful they won't forget. And I have no concerns about doing that at all.
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