A nice young man rang this morning

I guess when you're in the middle of an important scam ..... it can be annoying to get 'a little old lady ' ?

I've been giggling about it all morning - it made my day!

Well I hope the conversation wasn't 'being recorded for training purposes'

Poor bugger was probably about to give in his notice and had had enough!

I needed cheering up today and that really made me lol. Thank you Kitty!

Made me giggle too kitty ! I have recently bought a call blocker for my phone, so no longer have the chance for a bit of fun. I already have caller ID so set-up was simple.

That's brilliant! I sometimes (if the devil is in me) tell my unwanted callers that "I can't talk now as the nappies are boiling over" and then put the phone down. Most of the youngsters calling me don't even know that nappies can be boiled! This used to work for me many many years ago if I had unwanted doorstep callers. It makes me happy and gets rid of the caller so win win for me.

Good for you. You upset the lying cheat

I did thank you for calling as I'm so lonely and it's lovely to have a chat. I had the trying to get you to claim for an accident "that you never had one "yesterday. Yes DH did but it was forty years ago and in Liverpool and then someone ran into the back of him but the car was an ancient MG built like a tank and the idiot who ran into him had his car wrecked and the mg luggage rack had a slight dent.

A happy ten minutes wasting his time as these false claims mean our insurance is high.

I love it kitty perhaps that will put him off tying it on someone else.

I want someone to phone me now, so I can do the same thing!

oh I absolutely love it - well done you!

My son in law who is a computer buff, had one of these 'callers' on line for 15 minutes, before the caller realised he was talking to someone who knew probably more than he (my sil) did. The response was I believe similar to yours Kitty. I just say, sorry I do not have a computer.

I love it!

Brilliant Kitty, that made me laugh, I could just imagine his face when you were 'old ladying' .

What a shame it wasn't one of those calls where you're asked to spare two minutes at the end rating their customer care.

I had a young lady with an Indian type accent call me the other day with the same line. She claimed to be from Microsoft. I strung her along for a bit, then told her I had a Mac (not true) but she just kept on with the script insisting I had to let her control my computer because there was something MS had to correct.
About this time I started laughing and couldn't keep it up, so I put the phone down.

Ah yes something wrong with the computer. Standard reply " I am so glad you called I will get the operations manager to speak to you as we have 13 computers on line and you can help him". DH will usually string them along for up to 20 minutes.

I have better things to do with my time so most cold callers are told "Telephone Preference Service *"

Sorry to be so rude but I can let off steam!

Telephone Preference Service rude words

I love stringing them along if I m not doing anything much, I ve had a lot of fun with them before they realise and snap the phone down, I ve had two today but they just put the phone down before we got started, not nearly as much fun

I answered my stepmum's phone yesterday and a 'gentleman' asked to speak to my Dad. I asked why and he said he was from Microsoft and Dad had paid him to look after his computer. I explained very firmly that Dad had died and he shouldn't ring the number again and hung up.
He called back right away (same number) so I answered and asked why he was calling back to which he replied ' You f*****g b**ch woman' and hung up!
So please that I was correct about his motives!!!
Could be the same person kitty!!!

Wonderful ?

When I got one of these calls recently I started making agitated noises about how terrible it was that my poor computer wasn't working and eventually said that I was too upset to deal with it, pretended to burst into tears and put the phone down.

I've also used the stern "Does your mother know how you're making a living?" line, which is no good for nuisance sales calls, but I feel is justified for the computer scam ones.

Kitty

Well his suggestion is a very difficult thing to do .