Great 'Best Cold Caller Rebukes' Hunt

Tony5101

theloft wrote: »

Tell me, does this work for International Calls, where the number is not shown, as they are the main bugbear of my telephone ?

You can set specific rules that allow for when the number is not shown, and how the TruCall handles such calls.

dunloadin

Take a gander at this, very funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Xak5CPWZk

savemoney

I got my truecall device today. Haven't set it up yet as I want to change where main phone is situated first

MothballsWallet

Back to rebukes, here's mine: can't remember what they were calling about, doesn't matter I suppose.

I managed to string the cold caller along for a bit acting and talking like I was aiming an orbital laser cannon at their offices and was about to obliterate them. Towards the end, the guy started laughing (probably thought I was insane or a retard), and hung up.

That company's never called me since...

HellsGranny

Callers at the door: If they are smart and wearing a dark suit, 'Hello, you must be the Funeral Director, my mother's body is in the living room'.

Double glazing salesmen: variations on the 'Sorry mate, I've sold up, off to New Zealand next week', or ' Wow! do you operate in New Zealand?'

Phone marketers: 'Sorry, I thought you were the Ambulance/Police/undertakers'

I did have a call once while I was instructing in CPR on a course- '15 compressions, now 2 breaths' with the phone held down quite close to the dummy for best effect!

To a Chugger in town for Save the Children 'you can save this one!' pointing at my son.

Never rude, but I think I'm quite inventive, and my son takes after me, so callers beware!

irrelevant

I've had this open in my browser for days, giving me a chuckle as I go through it.

Just had the God Botherers at the door. A polite not interested thank you did the trick. It's OK... I'd already had to prematurely drag the baby out of the bath and dash with her wrapped in a towel downstairs to answer the door to the postman!! If they had turned up the other way around, these may have ended up with a slightly less polite response...

(And this is WITH a notice on the gate requesting no callers, and with some hopefully legally defensible wording advising them of my charges for dealing with them and their literature!)

And last night Scottish Power got themselves added to the blacklist after far too many calls, the last of which was a recording saying they tried to call but were unable to complete it. i.e. predictive dialing where more people answered than they were expecting.

st999

I was quite happily stringing along a boiler room scammer, he was phoning every day for a week and I kept agreeing with him but kept telling him I was waiting for my £30,000 redundancy payment to clear through my bank.

So next day I was out when he phoned and my wife answered and after listening to his ramblings she said,

You do realise that as he has been made redundant and has nothing better to do with his time and that he is just stringing you along. He swore at her and hung up. Never had a boiler room phone call since.

Stan

taxi97w

pixwix wrote: »

If I'm in a bad mood, such callers simply get a suggestion to go forth and procreate in another location, at very high volume. Manners doesn't come into it - their call is unsolicited.

If I'm in a more mellow mood, I let them talk for a few seconds, then say "Please excuse me - there's someone at the door - I'll be right back!" Then I lay down the phone and leave it... forever...

If someone came up to you and asked a non-solicitored question like 'can you tell me where the train station is? ', would you be a tw*t in that situation too?

Hopefully you won't miss an emergency call while your phone is off the hook....forever.

One day when you need the train station, someone will give you a slice of your own medicine.

Baffled why people cant just speak on the phone with these people, instead of deploying your childish bahaviour.

harryhound

st999 wrote: »

I was quite happily stringing along a boiler room scammer, he was phoning every day for a week and I kept agreeing with him but kept telling him I was waiting for my £30,000 redundancy payment to clear through my bank.

So next day I was out when he phoned and my wife answered and after listening to his ramblings she said,

You do realise that as he has been made redundant and has nothing better to do with his time and that he is just stringing you along. He swore at her and hung up. Never had a boiler room phone call since.

Stan

These people are leaching hundreds of millions out of our economy and making life difficult for genuine entrepreneurs trying to raise capital.

The first time I was targeted, I almost fell for it about 4 years ago - thank goodness for Google - by poking about on the search engine, I was able to find a warning from the more dedicated investment community.
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I guess I could be on a "suckers" list that has been sold on because I cannot get rid of these people.

I suppose it is better than being targetted by firms offering to write off your debts, based on a legal technicality.

savemoney

Set up my truecall device so hopefully very few cold calls will get through. Took 20 minutes to setup due to having to change my phone location.

Haven't had any calls yet and you can customise the security by default its not set up for best security as yet and I have to put all my numbers which I want to bypass the system, via star key on phone.

Never had a boiler scam but I hear this is good to reject such calls