I want to follow your advice. But back in 1988 I sent ‘Star Trek TNG’ actress Marina Sirtis a mushy fan letter. And she could be trying to contact me from a pay phone at any time!
Posted on 04/02/2021 7:26:04 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Few people still pick up phone calls from unknown numbers, but if you do you need to listen closely to what the person on the other end says. If you receive a call and immediately hear the phrase “Can you hear me?,” hang up. The phrase is used to coax you into saying “yes,” a word that, if said in your voice, is as good as gold for con artists.
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I want to follow your advice. But back in 1988 I sent ‘Star Trek TNG’ actress Marina Sirtis a mushy fan letter. And she could be trying to contact me from a pay phone at any time!
Ok ok..thanks.
I’ll even warn my wife about this. She’s on EVERY list in the world.
I’d say “speak up fool!”
I had a guy with an Indian sounding voice telling me he was from the IRS and that I was about to be arrested if I didn't pay up NOW!! I ask him if he was having still having sex with his mother or his sister. He hung up on me.
I got a call last week from a male Hispanic claiming to be from Consolidated Edison, a NY power company. I have since moved to Baltimore, so have no further connection with ConEd. This guy told me that “my power would be turned off in 30 minutes”. I told him what to do with himself. He got angry (haha!) and started a rapid-fire string of obscenities. I laughed and blocked the call. Yesterday I got a recorded male voice telling me that “my Social Security would end in 30 minutes”. That’s a good one, how are they going to time the delivery/halt of delivery of Social Security to exactly 30 minutes? I simply hit BLOCK on my phone. Bye bye. Nearly all of these call are coming from the Forest Hills/Kew Gardens Hills area when I track the number, and the vast majority of them are on my older phone with a NY number. Just more NYC crime.
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my dad would always answer the phone “Duffy’s Tavern, Duffy aint here right now or he’d be answerin the phone” sometimes he’d take it to placing an order or the party would know it was him... i never understood until i started getting those sales calls...
i answer dominoes pizza what can i get ya?
Just make sure you never get a Indian accent confused with a Pakistani accent. Tell them that you recognize the accent distinctly and they are from southern Pakistan. Argue with them. Enjoy the fruits of the biggest slam you can ever put on them.
Well, you could always ask him if he’s ever visited the Fisherman’s Bastion, or how he likes the Mammut Mall.
Or if he’s ever shopped at the Grand Market?
LOL!
Decades ago I would take pleasure in tracking down phone scammers and "SWAT-ing" them. Of course I had to stop when all my favorite tactics were made specifically illegal. It was mostly pointless anyway, like stomping cockroaches on a hot night in South Carolina. However in Pakistan and Turkey you could often get some secret nasty intelligence agency involved and I shed no tears over the results. These days some global anti hacker outfits will track down nasty cybercriminals and sic local or national police on them, but there is more expense because most cops now demand payment for constructively acting on tips.
This is a digression, but my god you could always find someone at ISI that would believe any-f*n-thing, thus it's astoundingly suspicious Bin Laden hid out in Pakistan for so long without Western influence shielding him somehow.
Which means it's hugh and series!
Lately the ones I get from the IRS say they are “a law enforcement agency with the IRS”. It’s all computer generated voice and so fake it’s pathetic that they could fool anyone.
I’ve gotten the IRS calls where they say I owe money and if I don’t give them a credit card, or bank acct # for payment they will send an officer to arrest me...I tell them to come on over I’ll be waiting on the front stairs....I’m still waiting!
I always gave the phone to the toddler, he loved talking, uh huh, yeth, OK.
One guy invested 20 minutes selling siding to a two year old.
Nowadays I’ll wait for the human, get them talking and announce I’m not wearing pants....
That usually ends the call.
I’m sure she will leave a message with the phone booths number even if you can’t pick it up at the sound of her voice.
Intelligence agencies are criminal gangs. They work for themselves first; not for the countries they operate in.
They probably get a percentage from the phone scammers and protect them.
Maybe a scammer wrote that Wikipedia article. Lol.
Mine is a straight-forward: “Hello.” No inflections. just dead-pan. Kinda like Lurch.
I use Arthur “2 Sheds” Jackson.
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