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  • BeatTheTunaUp

    Fux with the best, Die like the rest
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    Sooooo..... from what I can gather, if someone calls you, you can be as weird and creepy as you want. You just can't make threats. The price for my house is either your pussy or your mom's pussy depending on the sex of caller. Muslims hate mom jokes. Have fun and ruin their day.
     

    easy rider

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    I was asking Dan, but at one time I started to fill out a survey and soon after that I was bombarded by spam calls. I still get them at times, but I let my GF answer because she takes great joy in messing with them. I have a spam identifier on my phone.
     

    candcallen

    Crotchety, Snarky, Truthful. You'll get over it.
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    I got a 350,000.00 cash offer from some investors who knew way too much info about the house and mortgage. They will pay all closing costs etc so I net 6 figures plus. I said sold on one condition. You rent it back to me for 15 years at 100 dollars a month.


    I'm still waiting to hear back.

    Maybe asking for the rent back was too much. Maybe asking if his wife will put out will work next time.
     

    Southpaw

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    For me the calls seem to come in waves. I wound up getting 3 pretty close to each other yesterday, which probably means I'll be getting more then a few in the next week or two. It might have to do where particular phone bank spam callers are on their list. Most of my calls come in on my land line, which I specifically give out to every business and even some medical. I then forward all them calls to my cell where they can leave a message if I don't recognize the number.
     

    Sasquatch

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    Ya but I get bored sitting home all alone. My wife would probably object to strippers so what's a crippled crotchety bastard to do.

    Well, you have a point. Gotta find your fun where you can get it. Air horns, whistles. Or get a sound-board app and mess with them. Or start a YouTube channel where you mess with them (get paid to **** with scammers!)
     

    Southpaw

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    Some are cloning phone numbers
    Someone called me last week and said my number shows up on their phone ,and others have happened to also

    Yeah, I received an VM from an obvious older gentleman who was apparently being harassed by a scammer with my number. He was practically begging me to stop calling him. I wanted to call him back and explain what was happening, but I had a feeling he wouldn't understand the tech going on and feel I was the same scammer further harassing him.
     

    DubiousDan

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    My simple solution to this - I don't answer unknown number calls. If you aren't in my contacts list, you don't get answered, even business calls. Leave a fookin voice mail, I'll read it (visual voice mail) and decide if I am going to return your call.
    I don't answer calls from unknown numbers. i was wondering if anyone knew why there is an increase lately. I recall when o'bummer care went into effect I got like 18 calls in a two hour period one morning.
     
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