Sometimes I make the mistake of picking up the business phone. When I hear the pause I just hang up but sometimes when the voice is from some foreign sounding place, I simply say give me your credit card number and you can talk to the boss. Cost is $50 a minute. Catches them off guard and I continue repeating over anything they say “Give me your credit card number”. Pretty soon they give up.
I got one call from Jamaica claiming that I won the Publishers Clearing sweepstakes. That I would receive a new F-150, a new washer and dryer, and one million dollars. But I had to give them a check for $35k.
I said OK, and had them going for about 30 min. I told them if they delivered the prizes to me in person that I’ll give them the $35k in cash so they didn’t have to worry about cashing a check.
I gave them the following address:
935 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20535
And told them to see the receptionist in the lobby. Well they must have looked up the address because I heard someone in the background trying to get the other guy off the line and after a short pause, the guy I was talking to came back and said “F*ck you” and hung up.