Jun 4, 2009
I am very angry about these calls. Maybe if we annoy them enough they won't call back!
Here is another strategy to use. This one is from Hink..
same thing, I get them all the time...I like to string them along until they get mad at me, can you imagine that...they get mad at me because I'm wasting THEIR time. This one was about credit and reducing interest. She said "if you don't mind can you tell me what your interest is?" I said "I like long walks on the beach, movies, sports, fishing" then she said "I meant on your cards" and I said "if you're calling you should know".
She then explained that this was serious business, I asked her if she knew how many federal laws she was breaking and she said "give me a break, you pushed 1" and hung up.
These call use to annoy me but then I realised that was letting them get to me so I turned the tables on them and have fun with them. After I go right to the ftc donotcall page and file a complaint but it doesn't help much.
Once I told a caller I was "an agent", I got another call back saying that I misrepresented who I was, they actually read my address back to me and told me impersonating a law enforcement agent was a federal crime and they were going to arrest me. I told the guy he was trying to steal identities and he wasn't doing anything. I did call my DA after that though.