Community Chat

[SeaMaiden]

The caller ID said LDS CHURCH and some local  phone number...  So I pick up the phone just curious and it is the same phone call I get about once a day.  An automated ladies voice that goes on and on about  how they have been trying to reach me about my credit card bla bla bla. I find it funny that they would use LDS church as the call from number.😄 Everyday it is a new caller ID from them.  

And yes I know I can just not answer it, but I actually enjoy hanging up on them.

[Kachina624]

Yes, there's a certain satisfaction you get from being rude to a machine. 

[elizabethl123]

I GET A CALL  THEY SAY CAN YOU HEAR ME I SAY YES THEN THEY HANG UP  SO I BOUGHT A WHISTLE WHEN THEY SAY CAN YOU HEAR ME I BLOW IT LOL 

[september]

What will they think of, next?

I sometimes answer calls from unknown numbers if it's convenient for me.  Once I know they're robocalls, I block the numbers 

[Marp]

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@elizabethl123 wrote:

I GET A CALL  THEY SAY CAN YOU HEAR ME I SAY YES THEN THEY HANG UP  SO I BOUGHT A WHISTLE WHEN THEY SAY CAN YOU HEAR ME I BLOW IT LOL 

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@elizabethl123, be extremely careful saying yes to any of those calls.  There is a scam going around where they try to get you to say yes and it is a scheme to sign you up for some bogus subscription and they use your "yes" as proof you ordered.

Unfortunately I don't recall all the details but it was discussed on the boards a few weeks ago and was on the news.

[Happiness Is Inside JOB]

Same thing happened to me, I was on my way to the dentist and my phone range with a local number saying NY dentist.  I stopped to answer thinking, is it my dentist and it was 

A lady selling security systems, what in the world!!!

When your phone rings unless I know the person I am skeptical and non trusting of the caller.  My mother has a saying Trust no one!!!

That saying is more true today then ever.

[Lapdog]

I got  a call two days in a row from FPC.  The second day they left a message on my answering machine.  They said there was a warrant for my arrest and they were on their way.   I'm still waiting.......

[sallybusky]

After answering too many calls from robots, I have started interrupting with, "Are you a robot?" If / when there is no response, I hang up. Once, after receiving the robot's greeting, I asked that question. After a brief pause, the caller replied, "No! Oh dear, I need to work on  my phone voice, don't I?"  I still didn't buy whatever he was selling, but at least we both got a laugh out of that one.

[grandma2pkmh]

@SeaMaiden I got a call today from "Spalding Hospital" so I answered thinking someone could be hurt.  Turned out to be a recorded call about a medical alert device. I was so mad I called the hospital after looking up the real number and told them what was happening and gave them the number from the caller id. They were not happy and said they would look into it. 

[Happiness Is Inside JOB]

I have a policy, if I don't know the name shown on my caller I'd I don't answer PERIOD!!!!!

If they don't leave a message, I will watch and see if they call again, if they calk a second time and still don't leave a message the call is BLOCKED!!!