Man Receives Call From Scammer and Proceeds to Waste his Time

Posted by $ AJAshinoff 7 years, 6 months ago to Humor
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I've had many of these calls and I'm not nearly as creative as this guy...very funny. Enjoy.
SOURCE URL: https://youtu.be/CuVFcizDwqw


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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 6 months ago
    He is better than me. I've done this a couple of times too. Only got about 15 min out of them. Putting the phone down, and letting them repeat themselves.
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    • Posted by lrshultis 7 years, 6 months ago
      Nothing is free. They got 15 minutes out of you too, but you might have had more fun.
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      • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 6 months ago
        No, I was doing emails and double tasking. That is why they had to repeat themselves so many times. Phone on speaker, set down...
        You are right it took some action, but a lot less than I took from them, and reimbursed by entertainment as you say.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 6 months ago
    This guy is good. Now, I'll do a little bragging.
    I'm at work, and that morning I get two calls from telemarketers. On the third call, I decided to have some fun, but I didn't record it so I'm going by a memory from 1990. I was called by a company selling rug and upholstery cleaning. I think it was 3 rooms for $199.00.
    Me: Can your service remove blood?
    Them: Yes sir, like it never happened.
    Me: I'm talking about a fairly large amount.
    Them: No problem.
    Me: It's on the couch and carpeting and some on the wall.
    Them: We don't do walls sir.
    Me: There are tiny bits of flesh and bone in the blood.
    Them: Sir?
    Me: I mean what am I supposed to do? He..
    Them: Sir, we only do certain...
    Me: I didn't even know that that old gun would work so I grabbed a kitchen knife...
    Them: Click.
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  • Posted by Rex_Little 7 years, 6 months ago
    This reminds me of something I heard over 40 years ago from a co-worker. He had recently bought a house, and his wife had just given birth to their first child, so he was getting sales calls from every life insurance agent in the state. One evening he was sitting in his easy chair, watching TV, when the phone rang. His wife answered it.

    "Norm, it's for you."

    "Does it sound like an insurance guy?"

    "Yes."

    "Tell him I'll be there in a minute."

    He sits back and continues to watch TV. Around 5 minutes later, a commercial comes on. He gets up and goes to the phone.

    "Sorry to keep you waiting. I was changing the battery in my pacemaker. What can I do for you?"
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 7 years, 6 months ago
    WE have had so many of those IRS calls, which is funny, because my husband is a CPA, knows how the IRS works. We have warned his elderly clients to hang up. I have Googled the numbers each time, and some are in New Jersey, some out of the country. I usually just tell them they are crooks and hang up after the first sentence. Our local Sheriff has tried to warn elderly people, but some have done as instructed. Sad.
    How on on earth would they get ITune cards converted to cash? Those videos were hilarious.
    Jut a thought, maybe Hillary is making some pin money?
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  • Posted by slfisher 7 years, 6 months ago
    I love getting these.

    My favorites are the ones who say they're a friend of mine and in trouble in a foreign country and can I please help them.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
    Me dino got 5 scam IRS calls early last month. Four were recordings or pretending to be recordings of young I guess Caucasians trying to sound really mean. None had the same voice so I suppose it was young people connected to an organized crime operation.
    The first call told me to gather account information of all my assets and to await another caller within 24 hours.
    Five hours later called a guy with an accent kinda like in the video. I wasn't in a mood to waste his time (as well as my own) but what I first said echoed back at me in a very distracting manner and at that point I noticed that lots of people were talking in the background.
    I then wondered if the scammer called from a room crammed with other scammers like in a sweatshop run by some crime cartel.
    Anyway, ignoring that irritating echo of my every five words, I told the crook that "The IRS has put it out that they always send paperwork first. So you ain't the IRS and bye-bye!"
    Recorded (if not faked) caller #3 was the only female who told me to call an 800 number or the IRS would be knocking on my door within 24 hours.
    Two days later a recorded (if not faked) caller to me I would be the subject of a criminal investigation. I had to call the same 800 number within 24 hours or else.
    Three days later the meanest voice of all (supposedly a recording) said all my assets had been frozen and I had to call that 800 number,
    That scared me so much that I found I could use my debit card at a grocery store two whole days later.
    At some point during those five calls, I looked up that 800 number on the internet out of curiosity.
    I found someone who wrote that "People who say they are the IRS keep telling me to call this number. How do I make them stop?"
    I'm thinking "How do you fix stupid?" and I don't bother with the dude. Maybe he had not received his total of five calls yet.
    Oh, about half a year earlier some Hispanic guy called to say I won Publishing Clearing House and I had to give out account information in order to receive my prize that the UPS would send to me in a package.
    I told him to go to hell and clicked off.
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
      I just tell the man speaking broken english to mail me the paperwork either that or I ask for his operator ID and a return number.

      I'd love to gym whistle them but I could only image the constant wave of calls at all hours
      as a result.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
        I told my story to Mikey of Mikey's Convenience Food Store where I buy almost all of my gas.
        Mikey said he had been called by such an IRS scammer.
        He told the crook he was captain so-and-so with the FBI and then the line went dead.
        Mikey received no further calls either.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 7 years, 6 months ago
    Funny. There are websites where they show supposed text of people's scam-baiting. They act as if they're totally falling for the scam and then try to get the scammers to send money or to go meet them at some hotel in a distant city. They see how much they can get the scammers to drive around and jump through the would-be victims' hoops.
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 6 months ago
      Personally I wouldn't go out of my way to meet or threaten these folks. They are most likely on the other side of the planet anyway. Even so, it would give me a degree of satisfaction to waste their time simply because they assume I'm a moron having injected themselves into my life.
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