When I Am 100% Guaranteed to Do The Opposite...
When I get a recorded phone call that begins, "This is an important call, do not hang up..." I get these all the time. No idea what they are for because I immediately hang up.
Dispatches from District 48
When I get a recorded phone call that begins, "This is an important call, do not hang up..." I get these all the time. No idea what they are for because I immediately hang up.
Notifications
Starting the call with that intro guarantees the person who listens to the rest of it is ideal material for being scammed
I called one back just for fun and a very foreign sounding person answered "IRS" and I hung up. For fun I repeated this another dozen times. When he asked "what do you want?" Told them I wanted them to F&%k off. Haven't received any calls from them since. It was a mildly pleasant feeling of minor retribution on an afternoon otherwise spent confirming my biases on the internet.
If I happen to answer (I usually don't), then I will just put the phone down. It's a minor cost to them, but the only way I can inconvenience them is tying up their phone line for a few extra secons. If it's a human I always say "Can you hang on just a minute?".
We've been getting more and more of those at work over the last several weeks. By "more", I mean going from 5-6 a week to a couple of dozen every day (on 3 in-dial lines).
I usually wait until I get someone one the phone . . .
And then use the airhorn.
Lately everyone in my family has gotten robocalls in what we believe is the Chinese language. Not.sure what that is about - but if we all get it it can't be something one of us signed up for.