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4 Responses
I love winding up the callers.
I had a lady call me, telling me that I had a problem with viruses on my computer.
I gasped and put on a strange accent and led her on for a bit and then started laughing.
She said, why was I laughing.
I replied that it’s a well known scam and thanked her for brightening my day.
She then told me I was stupid and shouldn’t have wasted HER time.
B-)
Ahh the tables turned !!!!!
It does all depend on how busy I am and my mood at the time, but I have been known to play out some calls.
I also have lines ready for particular statements:
“This wont take long”
Reply – “Its already taken longer than I was prepared to allocate to this” Click
“Do you want to save money on your (Insert Service)”
Reply “No, the more money I save, the more money my wife gets to spend” Click
That said, both my current telephone service and accountant were initiated by cold calls, they were in my thought process when they called, I remember the call for the accountants, as I could hear her scrambling for pen & paper and the surprise in her voice when I said Yes to her initial question.
Lee
The ‘something wrong with your computer calls’ are my favourite. I put them on speaker phone and chat to them while I work.
I once kept them on the phone for over an hour. I discussed the all sorts on inane things including the weather. He said he was in London. I am too and I was suffering rain. He said it was nice and sunny.
It was only when I started asking him lots of questions about the Queen that he gave up.
all telephone calls are a nuisance