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Topic: I was fooled by a elaborate scam, this is the consequence.
Denmark guy !VF6Hpx77OQ started this discussion 10 years ago#55,885
I'm not not gonna go into the scam, but now I get like 20 calls each day, with people promising this or that. However in a way it's funny, like just now i got a call from someone speaking broken danish, I asked if he could speak English and he said sure "but this is only for Danish speaking people- good day" .
Denmark guy !Kdx1LJwkZY (OP) double-posted this 10 years ago, 39 minutes later[^][v]#722,565
By the way this is me.
Denmark guy !jJEom8Ii3E (OP) triple-posted this 10 years ago, 21 seconds later, 39 minutes after the original post[^][v]#722,566
Yes....
Jubilee Starshine joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 2 minutes later, 42 minutes after the original post[^][v]#722,567
pro tip: to get off of call lists waste their time. whatever they are selling, act interested. ask a lot of questions about it and make them repeat them over and over like you're old or have memory problems. make sure they have your call back number because you're going to also put them on hold a lot. tell them not to go away, and put them on hold for 5 seconds, then 10 seconds, then 20 seconds, and make it a game - see how long they'll actually wait for you, but give them a carrot at first and actually come back quickly. keep asking questions, and then when they are ready to collect payment or additional information or whatever - have a problem and tell them a story about how your bank took away your credit cards or how you're on a fixed income and don't get your check for a few weeks and ask if they'll take a 3rd party check as payment. just waste as much of their time as they'll allow. they are trained to not waste their time and if they're on commission they'll try and force you to advance the conversation or they'll hang up on you. don't let them get any traction, just keep making them explain their services to you over and over and over until they flag your phone number in their system as a Problem Customer and quit calling.
My grandfather was really great at that, they'd call and he'd suddenly wilt into an old demented man who just wanted to alleviate his loneliness by chatting up the telemarketers. he'd never buy anything, but promise to and then forget where his credit card was. lol. they'd stay on the phone while he "went to look for it," and eventually they'd just kinda stop calling all together.
in contrast to how my dad handles telemarketers by getting mad and antagonizing them. personally i believe that gets him flagged as "Troll this Fuck Face If You're Bored" because he gets a million calls a day.
Alba Gal !MLHqI35Srs joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 48 seconds later, 43 minutes after the original post[^][v]#722,568
You are the only certaintly left in my universe. Please don't slip away from me like sand through my fingers... *holds out her hand in a cusp-like appeal*
Denmark guy !jJEom8Ii3E (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 7 minutes later, 50 minutes after the original post[^][v]#722,570
I won't slip away, enlightened one. But I might dissappear from time to time.
Jubilee Starshine joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 38 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#722,579
@722,570 (Denmark guy !jJEom8Ii3E)
no. the companies they work for have a business model based around interrupting your life with advertizements. it's not enough they interrupt us during leisure time to spam us with ads, they also have to randomly call you up to force even more ads on you. fuck. them. and by extension fuck their employees.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 2 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[^][v]#722,596