For at LEAST five years I have been getting robo calls from this bitch Rachael telling me not to worry, because nothing is wrong with my credit card(s). I’ve pressed 3 to NOT be called again; I’ve pressed 1 and spoken to an agent in a NOT so pleasant tone threatening her with bodily harm if they keep calling me; I’ve NOT answered when I see CARD SERVICES on my caller ID, and I’ve taken the call and simply laid the phone down and let them burn their $$$ and play their recording. I’ve learned that Rachael is one determined ‘ho, and if I don’t ANSWER the call, she will call back 3-4 times over the course of the day.
She called about 10 days ago when I happened to be in a particularly foul mood. I said ‘hello’ and then pressed all 10 numbers on the keypad and hung up. An hour later, she called back – repeat performance. Repeat two more times. HOWEVER – observant gal that I am, I noticed that each time the calling number was different. After five calls I was more batshit crazy than usual so I got a bottle of wine and a glass, sat down at my computer, and opened EXCEL. I entered the numbers Rachael had called from that day, arranged then in descending order, and put my diabolical plan into motion.
First I called each of Rachael’s numbers. Had to listen to the usual ‘our options have changed’ krap (btw – have you ever noticed that the options NEVER CHANGE????) and when given the option to press a # to be put on the ‘do not call’ list – I did. Then I started calling ALL THE NUMBERS BETWEEN THE ONES I HAD, each time entering the number in my Excel. After 10-12 calls, I would sort the numbers again. After calling all the ‘tween numbers, I started calling the numbers LOWER than my lowest last-4 until I got a bunch of disconnected numbers. THEN…. I scrolled down to the HIGHEST number and started calling on that end of my list until the same thing happened. 113 calls total. A bottle of not-so-cheap wine.
Bitch hasn’t called in over a week. [The blanks are ALL HER!!!!]
I have no life! HAHAHA!
You can try to get on the national DONOTCALL list at this link, but it works about as well as anything ELSE our government does:
https://www.donotcall.gov/register/reg.aspx
| 1-417-800- | 2272 | disconnected | |
| 2273 | disconnected | ||
| 2274 | disconnected | ||
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| 2286 | not rachael | ||
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| 2291 | charity | ||
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LOL. I get the same calls but I’ve never gotten them as frequently. I have some blocked and just hang up otherwise. Maybe you should try the Tom Mabe approach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7OgWcwgB50
My favorite Tom Mabe prank:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8vrfDmr2C4
OMG! These are hilarious! Thanks for the links! (But would be hard to do this when talking to a computer!)
Rachel calls me about once a week, so not worth the trouble of reciprocal harassment. But I did get a call from some gentleman with a heavy South Asian accent, the day of Mr. Wired’s funeral, who kept asking to speak to Mr. Wired. I kept telling him that Mr. Wired was “deceased” or had “passed away,” but none of this made any impact. I finally told him that Mr. Wired “can’t come to the phone because he’s frikkin’ dead, you idiot!” and hung up. My brother-in-law, who heard the whole conversation, said Marty would have been proud of me for not calling the guy an asshole.