Despite being registered with the TPS, I have had a spate of cold callers lately: people saying they are from Microsoft and want to repair my Windows computer (a common fraud), and others telling me that they have £x with my name on it due to mis-selling of PPI. I have never taken out PPI.
I have adopted a new approach which has produced interesting results.
I ask if they have a degree (so far they all have), then what they had hoped to do with their lives when they were younger, whether their mother knows what they do for a job and whether she is proud of them? I then calmly and politely suggest that they look for a job where they can do good and be proud of their work, and hold their heads up high with their families.
I have had the following responses:
Edward: Gosh, yes, I feel dreadful, I need to get another job. (I liked Edward)
William: I am doing this because my country didn't invade your country and take all your wealth 35 years ago but your lot did that to us. I hate the British for what they have done to us (he was full of vitriol that came spewing out)
Sammy: shouted at me to stay out of her life (poor Sammy seemed very stressed but her logic was remarkable when you consider that SHE phoned ME whilst I was in my own kitchen minding my own business).
So AIBU to hope I will soon be blacklisted from these fraudsters' phone lists on the basis that I upset their staff? It seems quite effective.
BTW I wouldn't be this mean to an "honest" cold caller just trying to sell me something but these guys were all working for criminal gangs and must have known it.
AIBU?
to be hoping to be blacklisted soon
hopingnothopping · 17/05/2013 12:25
I did similar to one who phoned me up asking about "your accident that happened four or five years ago" ( apparantly he knew about it because my Doctor or the Hospital told him. But he had no idea exactly when it happened - probably because IT DIDN'T ) .
Any questions he asked me I answered "Well, you tell me, you seem to be remarkably well informed about my life. And as I work for the NHS I know that Drs and hospitals don't give out this (non existing) information "
I said he should be ashamed of himself because some poor soul will have been in an accident for real and might fall for this crap scam.
His Supervisor (who sounded suspiciously like the original caller 
) then phoned me back to complain I'd been rude to the caller .....!!
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