Nuisance calls strategy - epic fail!

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 868
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    What's that?

    A load of Arnold Schwarzenegger sound clips.
  • sallycamebacksallycameback Posts: 2,945
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    What's that?

    Google "Arnold Calls"

    You should be able to find a website filled with Arnold Schwarzenegger soundboards, buttons with audio clips of his more famous movie dialogue, complete with humourous examples of them used to make prank calls, or respond to cold callers.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 462
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    Fart or belch down the receiver.
  • chebbychebby Posts: 7,841
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    As a previous poster has said..
    I have a sort of police whistle near my most used landline phone , and when these international calls come through.. ( I have caller ID and TPS ).
    I say can you repeat that , and then blow the whistle down the phone . That mess's them right up . Almost look forward to them now..
  • chebbychebby Posts: 7,841
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    Double post
  • chebbychebby Posts: 7,841
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    Rowdy wrote: »
    Another advantage with that strategy is that you'll get flagged on the database as a "timewaster", and the calls will stop.


    Thats a very good idea , I wil try that, while walking around doing something else in the house at the same time..:D:D:cool:
  • _ben_ben Posts: 5,758
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    Then - yep, you've guessed it - the bastard salesman immediately rang me back! Doh!!! :rolleyes::o:D

    He obviously wanted to hear some more, you should never have hung up on him before the video ended.
    Lizzy11268 wrote: »
    I tell the caller the person they want is not in. Even if its me.

    Quite often, they never call back.

    All the nuisance calls we get are for someone who doesn't live here, we had dozens a day and they never took no for an answer. Finally we got a truecall device, it wasn't cheap but we haven't had a singe nuisance call since getting it.
  • Kaz159Kaz159 Posts: 11,824
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    When my daughter lived at home she used to tell them I was dead and could they please stop calling as it was very upsetting. :D
  • BarbellaBarbella Posts: 5,417
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    Kaz159 wrote: »
    When my daughter lived at home she used to tell them I was dead and could they please stop calling as it was very upsetting. :D

    If they ring for me I just tell them that I'm dead . Have to admit I burst out laughing the first time, .
  • LaVieEnRoseLaVieEnRose Posts: 12,836
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    When they ring us they often ask for the previous occupant, who IS dead. I quite enjoy telling them that, it's quite a conversation stopper.
  • SuperUnleadedSuperUnleaded Posts: 3,686
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    This morning though, I got a call when I happened to be viewing a gentleman's leisure video on the laptop, so after going through my usual 'polite' routine, just for divillment I rested the receiver against the laptop speaker. After giving the caller ten minutes of the delightful young Californian lady yelping and whooping and generally expressing her appreciation of her gentleman friend's sexual prowess and unfeasibly large tool, I cut the call and hung up.

    I had to read that a second time just to latch onto the porn reference there. :o Sounded rather innocent at first, with the way you so eloquently worded it! :D
  • MrOstentatiousMrOstentatious Posts: 2,713
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    http://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/english/counterscript.pdf


    Stops them cold dead when I say "I can appreciate your concern, but aren’t you calling me?" when they ask me why I'm asking them questions. I love the toothpaste one. I usually talk about the latest movie, soap to them. :p
  • boksboxboksbox Posts: 4,572
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    There's always the old "You've dialed a murder scene" routine;

    http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=16733006
  • SuperUnleadedSuperUnleaded Posts: 3,686
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    Google "Arnold Calls"

    You should be able to find a website filled with Arnold Schwarzenegger soundboards, buttons with audio clips of his more famous movie dialogue, complete with humourous examples of them used to make prank calls, or respond to cold callers.

    That, and the Joe Pesci ones. ;) There's a few from both I've singled out as legendary, but there's far too many crap ones to sift through as well...

    Irate Black Man is a certified prank call legend though, albeit unwittingly so.
  • davethorpdavethorp Posts: 8,701
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    Caller ID here too. If we aren't expecting a call and don't recognise the number the answerphone (which has a message saying we will only return calls if we deem them worthy) deals with it

    Switching homephone providers in a couple of weeks and getting number block and anonymous caller reject thrown in for 28p less line rental than what we pay now without those services so they should help deal with some of the more persistent callers
  • Devon MilesDevon Miles Posts: 6,654
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    I'm registered with the Telephone Preference Service, so I rarely receive UK-based nuisance calls. However, that doesn't stop the overseas equivalent, and my usual way of dealing with them is to politely say: "Okay, just a moment please" and call out whichever peculiar bastardisation of my/our name they've just asked to speak to - then rest the receiver on the table until the caller has given up waiting and hung up, usual after just three or four minutes.

    This morning though, I got a call when I happened to be viewing a gentleman's leisure video on the laptop, so after going through my usual 'polite' routine, just for divillment I rested the receiver against the laptop speaker. After giving the caller ten minutes of the delightful young Californian lady yelping and whooping and generally expressing her appreciation of her gentleman friend's sexual prowess and unfeasibly large tool, I cut the call and hung up.

    Then - yep, you've guessed it - the bastard salesman immediately rang me back! Doh!!! :rolleyes::o:D

    What strategy do you have for dealing with nuisance calls?

    If they are calling from India and suchlike i tell them to call back and ask for Derek Trotter
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 2,290
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    I burst into tears and tell them how nice it is to hear a voice, just lost my husband, hamster, neighbours bully me, oh sheds on fire got to go



    R O F L .............. I`ll bet you do ya bampot .................... :D
  • nuttytiggernuttytigger Posts: 14,051
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    I get them as well, and when it was my maiden name it was hilarious to try and hear them say it, so I replied, no-one with that name lives here - very true! and they would hang up.

    got one the other day asking for the homeowner - we live in a private rent - so obviously he wasn't here, got told they'd phone back, never did.

    hopefully i've got rid of them all now, phone hasn't rang for days!
  • HogzillaHogzilla Posts: 24,116
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    I usually mess with their heads and self esteem re. their ability to communicate. I have a 'classical Greek' name (not "Peter Andre") of the kind that everyone in Europe knows how to pronounce it automatically but anyone else is clueless. So I will parody back at them the inevitable mispronunciation of my name several times, forcing them to keep repeating it - then after I've toyed with them a bit, say *There's no-one here of that name. There is [correct pronunciation]." Slam phone down. They never ring back.

    If it's one of them robots then I leave the phone off the hook to expend the maximum amount of their money on a wasted call.

    I cancelled Sky TV last year and told them to leave us alone. Sometimes we get a call a day from some abusive Scottish person or other working for Sky tele-sales. I have still not exhausted my stream of invective reserved specially for these latter day Rupert Murdoch hugging Bravehearts.
  • sutiesutie Posts: 32,645
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    I was at my friend's house a week or two ago, when she answered the phone to a tele sales person. Quick as a flash she said ' Oh God. I hope you're not superstitious because all the people who have called this number at this time in the last month have died!'

    Not sure if they heard me laughing before they hastily hung up. :D
  • Moany LizaMoany Liza Posts: 22,757
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    We're also registered with the TPS but it doesn't seem to stop the calls we get. :rolleyes:

    However I have found that as soon as we mention to the nuisance caller that we are registered with them, they invariably just hang up without even an apology for disturbing us.

    So now, I don't even bother telling them and I just hang up straight away. Don't see why I should give them the courtesy of a response if they're just going to make a career out of irritating other people.
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    Hogzilla wrote: »
    I usually mess with their heads and self esteem re. their ability to communicate. I have a 'classical Greek' name (not "Peter Andre") of the kind that everyone in Europe knows how to pronounce it automatically but anyone else is clueless. So I will parody back at them the inevitable mispronunciation of my name several times, forcing them to keep repeating it - then after I've toyed with them a bit, say *There's no-one here of that name. There is [correct pronunciation]." Slam phone down. They never ring back.

    If it's one of them robots then I leave the phone off the hook to expend the maximum amount of their money on a wasted call.

    I cancelled Sky TV last year and told them to leave us alone. Sometimes we get a call a day from some abusive Scottish person or other working for Sky tele-sales. I have still not exhausted my stream of invective reserved specially for these latter day Rupert Murdoch hugging Bravehearts.









    One of " them " robots ! !

    LOL

    Did you mean " one of those Robots " .......... ?



    I`ll have some of your " invective " when you manage to get your grammar right ............................. :D
  • ShrikeShrike Posts: 16,590
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    I sometimes see how long they persist when I just reply "Hello" to everything they say.:D
    If they are doing a "market survey" I'll ask how much I will be paid for my contribution - they never want to:(
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    chebby wrote: »
    As a previous poster has said..
    I have a sort of police whistle near my most used landline phone , and when these international calls come through.. ( I have caller ID and TPS ).
    I say can you repeat that , and then blow the whistle down the phone . That mess's them right up . Almost look forward to them now..

    Do you think that's fair, potentially damaging the hearing of someone who's just trying to earn a living? Do you think it's their choice to call you?
  • Moany LizaMoany Liza Posts: 22,757
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    Dan 8t1 wrote: »
    Do you think that's fair, potentially damaging the hearing of someone who's just trying to earn a living? Do you think it's their choice to call you?

    I suppose it is if they choose to work as a Telesales operator.
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