Scam phone call

[Marc St Louis]

So here's the thing.  We had just finished our lunch when my wife and I decided to have a tea and coffee in our 3 season porch, she likes tea and I coffee.  My wife put the kettle on to boil and we went and sat down in the porch.  When it started to boil I went in and prepared her tea, she likes mint honey and milk, then brought it out to her.  Then I went back in and was just about to get my coffee ready when the phone rang.  I picked it up and a man's voice with a thick accent said "hello Mr. Louis but quickly changed that to Mr. St Louis.  I said "hello".  Then he starts to mumble something which finished Microsoft.  I knew I was in for a line then.  He asked " are you in front of your computer right now?"  I said "no".  He then asked " are you the primary user of the Microsoft computer?"  I said "maybe".  That kind of threw him for a second.  He said " I don't understand your answer, are you the primary user of the Microsoft computer? "  Again I said "maybe".  By this time I could hear my wife starting to laugh a bit in the other room.  He then said " I don't understand this maybe ".  So I said " your question assumes that I am the only person in the house ".  This reply also kind of flummoxed him but he moved on from that.  He then said something along the lines of "you know when you go online you can get scammed".  I said " yes I know this ".  He said " you know this ? "  I said "yes of course".  Now my wife really started to laugh on the other side and this made me chuckle a bit.  So I decided to ask him " what do you want? "  This really put him off and he went quiet.  After a minute or so of no sound from the other end I said "hello?".  He said " yes?"  So I said " you haven't answered my question".  By this time I was starting to laugh a bit.  He said " yes I did".  I said " I didn't hear anything".  My wife was really laughing hard by this time and so was I.  He then said " are you laughing at me?"  I didn't say anything, I was laughing too hard by this time.  Then he said "stop laughing at me you Mother F******g Bas****d which made me laugh even harder, but I'd had enough by this time and said "goodbye" and hung up.  I have to say it was an amusing few minutes

[DC]

It's fun to screw with them when you have a few minutes to spare.

[Stoker]

It's fun to screw with them when you have a few minutes to spare.

Yes good fun..
Thanks Leroy

[upstatenybowyer]

Reading that just had me giggling. Way to take a potentially annoying situation and turn it into something amusing! 

[mullet]

I love listening to my daughter when she talks to them. They usually hang up. She starts out by asking them what they are wearing and then keeps interrupting asking them to take off articles of clothing, since she would be more comfortable talking to them if they were naked like her. It doesn't go much farther than that.

[JW_Halverson]

I love listening to my daughter when she talks to them. They usually hang up. She starts out by asking them what they are wearing and then keeps interrupting asking them to take off articles of clothing, since she would be more comfortable talking to them if they were naked like her. It doesn't go much farther than that.

Does she get $2.99 a minute from them?

[BowEd]

Yep that's a good one.Usually the first word out of their mouth I know they are a stranger and they want something.Then the game begins.

[PaulN/KS]

If the first word is "Mr" followed then by one of the usual mis-pronunciations of my last name,I just tell them can'ttalkgottagobye...

[Pappy]

I sometimes just lay the phone to the side and leave them on the line for a hour or so. I love messing with them sometimes, sometimes I just ant it the mood.
 Pappy

[mullet]

When the Son was younger I used to hand the phone to him and tell him he has a call.

[Marc St Louis]

I usually just hang up but not yesterday

[Eric Krewson]

I got one of those "Windows" calls the other day, I went into my backwoods east Tennessee voice when the gal asked if I had windows on my computer. I said "winders, I don't see any of thme thar winders, just a black box with some lites flashin', don't see no reason for winders on a computer, thar ain't nothin' for one to see inside that box anyway".

Of course the gal from India was a bit conflicted, on one hand she wanted to complete her pitch but suspected she was talking to a complete idiot. 

I carried the lack of windows theme on for a while and she finally just hung up.

[Pappy]

Question JW, how do you know the cost $2.99 per minute 
 Pappy

[PEARL DRUMS]

Nice job, Marc. I love making those idiots squirm.

[Eric Krewson]

I put  a feature called "Nomorobo" on my phone and get very few completed calls now. Nomorobo lets the phone ring once and gives the caller the message "this call has been blocked by nomorobo".

An actual telemarketing person calling can get through occasionally.