Nessie wrote:A few years back my (now defunct) landline rang and it was that IRS scam where everybody who ever called seemed to have an Indian accent. It was that scam where, if you go along with them far enough, they tell you they'll arrest you unless pay your "debt" to the government with a gift card from Walmart.
I was going to report it to authorities, but it had already been reported a gazillion times. It was on scam-alert websites plus, I'd seen this scam on the news too.
Asking to be put on the Do Not Call list doesn't work for obvious reasons.
So the next time they called, I went pure psycho. Hey, I have acting experience! You know, from doing quicksand videos!
They hung up on me. But I did that thing where you dial a couple digits and the last number that called you phone shows up. I dialed that number. In a little foreign accent they answered, "IRS" and I let loose a loud torrent of abuse, name-calling and obscenities.
They hung up. I called them again. They picked up and I called them every name I could think of between F-words until they cut me off by hanging up.
So I called again.
And they let it ring. It rang over and over again. I noted with smiling satisfaction that they had no answering machine at that number, so they were forced to listen to it ring...and ring...
...KNOWING what was on the other end.
I gave it, oh, 25, 30 rings, enough to let it really sink in, and then I hung up.
Days passed, and I did not hear from them.
I had made it to their Do Not Call.
Nessie
Good for you Nessie! I would enjoy hearing a recording of that. I love watching people screw with telemarketers, spammers and scammers on YouTube, though, I’m slightly embarrassed to admit I’ve never had the courage to do something like that myself. I was swatted once so it’d be my luck they’d call the cops on me
I just ignore numbers I don’t recognize.
It’s funny how this has turned into an all-out assault on telemarketers, spammers and scammers. Not exactly my original intention, but it sure is fun anyways