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Just curious..........

...........Anyone getting alotta spam phone calls. I get 6 - 8 calls a day.......

...........and I block and/or report 6-8 calls a day.

The texts are my favorite. I'm talking one of them right now.

Tks. Knowing that, I feel much much better.👍

I do get a lot of calls, but I don't pick up. I'll text back and forth with scammers for days, though.

I get two or three calls a week from someone telling me about some insurance claim I’m involved with. As soon as I ask them who they’re looking for, they hang up. Robo-calling, trying to hit the gullible person who will either send them money or give them a credit card #.

I like to, occassionally, play along with these idiots.

Other times, I wait for the stupid "bloop", then when someone starts talking, I go "bloop".

I kept one on the phone for an hour once. Trying to sell me life insurance over the phone LMAO I got him all lathered up about wanting a million dollar policy. Kept changing the subject on him and asking him personal questions. To his credit he hung in for an hour. Then I dropped the bombshell..... OH by the WAY I'm getting chemo right now for stage IV cancer that won't matter will it??? All I heard was CLICK and for some odd reason we never have had another phone call from that number.

I spent 15 minutes once with a guy who was telling me what to do to "fix" windows I was "following" all of his instructions on what to do. At some point I said wait a minute I need to get some more paper. He asked why? I told him I have been writing it all down. He hung up.

I'm pretty sure some of you have heard this one before but it's still funny as hell. Tom Mabe loves to mess with telemarketers...

Indeed.

I don't think blocking really works. If you block one, they have a hundred others.

My theory is I just don't answer my phone. I just hit ignore if I don't know who is calling. If they don't leave a message, it wasn't important.

Unless I was at work, I never felt obligated to answer a phone. Just because they want to talk about something doesn't mean I do. I own the phone. It doesn't own me.

As I read on, some funny comments.

I don't know if this would work on a cell phone...it worked great on an answering machine... I would record "Hello.... Hello?...I'm sorry I can barely hear you, can you speak up?..pause...Hey! That's better. How are you doing! Good to hear from you...pause a few more seconds...then say, just kidding, you have been talking loud to my answering machine.

I got a lot of comments over that gag.

I just had a call. I answered it, and the thing went "bloop" ......

I got this very, very foreign sounding guy rambing on about some imminent tragedy ..... and I belched. He asked me about 5 other questions, and I belched in response to each of them. He hung up ... thank goodness, because I don't know if my belcher had anything left.

On one call some chick called me and after her spiel she asked if I had any questions.

Me......I do. Will I at least receive a reacharound?

Her......What's a reacharound?

Sorry, can't say it on Dawgtalkers. No doubt you could look it up.

You talking about your home phone land line or a modern mobile phone? Verizon spam blocking eliminates most of those. Then V-block to block spam that get’s through does the rest. I get maybe 2-3 rando calls a month. And let’s be honest, every non-personal call is trying to steal from us in some way. Unless it’s like the school or a teacher calling to tell you how messed up your kid is, somebody from church trying to guilt you into attendance, or a neighbor wanting to borrow your tools, every caller is after something from us. I’d just as soon throw mine away or change my number, than to play with scum when I get a lot of robos.

Yep, I get them. Texts sometimes too. I never answer their calls.

I have to ask. What is she doing back there that would require a reach-around?

I just want to know when those cute little Spam animals learned to talk