There is also another one, that I also use with telemarketers:
I say: Yes, I am very interested on this, please don't hang up while I go
get my (whatever I make up at the moment)
Then lay the phone somewhere, go on with my day and hang it up some 30
minutes later... :)
ET
Mark Phillips writes:
> Very cool.....I wish I had the presence of mind to say something like that!
>
> Mark
>
> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:08 AM, X Y <achaios_1@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> It was some Friday last year when someone called me at home, in the evening
>> approx
>> 6pm. A guy I could easily understand despite the strange accent asked me,
>> in a very
>> authoritative voice, for the numbers of all (he repeated, ALL) my credit
>> cards.
>> I responded: "of course, yes, whatever you like, but please let me connect
>> you first with
>> me brother, he works for the FBI and". I had hardly spoken out the last
>> word, "and", when
>> he hung up. Nobody ever bothered me again. Before that evening they
>> bothered me very
>> often.
>>
>>
>> --- On *Sun, 4/4/10, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>
>> Subject: Nigerian Scammers Are Now Calling On the Telepone!
>> To: "Phoenix Linux Users" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>> Date: Sunday, April 4, 2010, 4:12 PM
>>
>>
>> I just got a phone call on my cell phone from 2347040921200 (Pankshin,
>> Nigeria) from someone I could barely understand. Basically, he had a package
>> waiting for me, and if I would please give him my email address he would
>> send me all the details for getting my package. Since I don't know anyone in
>> Pankshin, Nigeria, I just hung up. He even called back!
>>
>> Wow, these guys are getting pretty aggressive. Is there anyone I can/should
>> report this to?
>>
>> Mark
>>
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