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Yonnie3

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3. I like to put them on the speaker phone, tell them to hang on I've got something on the stove ...

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Thu Mar 16, 2017, 08:48 PM

Mar 2017

and then do whatever I was doing before they called. I shout out to them at intervals that "I'll be with you in a minute." I had one of the your "Windows computer has a virus" scammers hang on for about 15 minutes before he got upset that I was wasting his time. When he told me this, I wasn't particularly sympathetic. I told him so in much less than polite language. He then got to hear my antique Acme Thunderer drum major whistle as he hung up.

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'Tis the season for IRS scamming [View all] MrScorpio Mar 2017 OP

I love it when they call. I've had several in the past. Lint Head Mar 2017 #1

A friend of mine 2naSalit Mar 2017 #2

I like to put them on the speaker phone, tell them to hang on I've got something on the stove ... Yonnie3 Mar 2017 #3

You make me so proud MrScorpio Mar 2017 #4

I had one of the "unpaid parking ticket" scammers once jmowreader Mar 2017 #5