Good for you Jean!! I had several calls from Internat to speak to my daughter.[Shiralee is deaf] In the end I had to threaten them with the police several times before they stopped . Daphne Norfolk England
-------Original Message------- From: Jean Nathan Date: 09/02/08 09:12:22 To: Chat Subject: [lace-chat] Messages going to the wrong file Tamara wrote: <Watch out for phone calls, too. The first time I got a "we're calling about your credit card account" call, I nearly had a heart attack. It was only with the second sentence> I'm registered with the telephone preference service, so I rarely get unsolicited calls. I've heard of ways of dealing with unsolicited calls, apart from putting the phone down. If it's about a credit card, you could listen to the schpeil and them give them the number of your supermarket loyalty card if you have one. Probably won't fool them because the first four numbers on plastic cards identify who the issuer was and they must know the numbers used by all the credit companies, but it wastes their time if you're prepared to waste some of yours. My favourite is that as soon as I realise it's a spoof call, I say "Hang on a minute" and put the receiver down beside the phone. After about ten minutes they'll have rung off, but it will have cost them money for all the time they were holding waiting for you to return. It also means the call centre employee isn't earning anything in that time. One I did that to rang back and said "We seem to have been cut off." I said, "No, I decided that, as you wanted to waste my time, I'd waste yours instead." and I put the receiver beside the phone again. 10 minutes later I checked and she'd disconnected, so I replaced the receiver. The phone rang again and she yelled at me "You're pathetic!" I said "You're the pathetic one for ringing me back to tell me I'm pathetic and for not getting a worthwhile job instead of bothering people who have no interest in anything you have to say." and put the receiver down beside the phone again. She didn't ring back again. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of imstp_animation_panda_en_250808.gif] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
