So I just got a phone call from an unknown number, so I answered it and it was a man from a "Sweepstakes" company who told me that I was in the running for $25,000. Then he said all he needed from me was my credit card number! Haha, yeah.... NO. Lol.
All I could do is start laughing. I think he knew I wasnt buying into his scam.
Anyone else have any funny stories to share for today?
Haha! Tracy that is hilarious! I love it!
We have an infestation of some sort of weird creepy bug at work. Yesterday the vp of the company told the bugs that they either needed to pay rent or vacate. It was so unexpected, I couldnt stop laughing.
I actually know some people who believe what they see on Fox News! Now THAT'S hilarious!
I used to know a guy who would keep those people on the phone selling magazine subscriptions for as long as possible. He would ask a million questions and then at the end he would say. "Well, I sure would love to buy some magazines but I can't read". Inevitable they would ask about his wife and he would say in a funny southern voice "Well, she can't read neither". Stunned silence, followed by dial tone.
This happened a few months ago. I answered the phone and someone on the other end claimed to be conducting a health survey and was asking if anyone in our household had diabetes, or cancer. Then asked if we had any dogs. Ummmm, yeah, ok, pal....
My 4 year old wanted to play hide and seek with her aunt. Her aunt hadn't come to find her the last time she hid, so my daughter wanted to make sure that wasn't a problem this time. She told her, "come find me. If you look and you can't find me, look next to the freezer."
My daughter called me a couple of hours ago and I get all 4 kids on speaker phone telling me about the new carrot they got. Along with a lot of excited squeels and laughter, so my daughter gets on the phone and explains that she and her boyfriend got a new ferret today. The kids can't say ferret so they were calling it a carrot.
The poor thing was being loved to death and has probably hidden inside the couch wishing she could return to the pet store.
Her name is Sassy D, they couldn't decide between Sassy and Daisy so she's Sassy D.
Hilarious Tracy and oh my goodness Becky, that's creepy, I didn't know people did that (I'm assuming he was looking into attempting a robbery?)
I tend to bait people like that (with the credit card number). I would start saying oh my goodness, REALLY! Oh lucky day now I can get that air conditioning. Let me go grab my lawyer dad and he'll talk to you... dial tone. Or be like hold on and go on 3 way with the police haha
Or when telemarketers call I start asking them random questions about their day, their boss, then I say oh gotta go dinner is ready, give me your cell number and I'll call you back. Then (9 times out of 10) they say I can't give you my number and I start saying I bet it would be annoying for people to call you at home huh. The other time they just hang up lol. I read it on a funny things to do to telemarketers list and decided it would be fun to do.
Once I got a call from a woman who said that she was from a bank and that my husband had been interested in a loan (?!). She said she had made great progress but still needed my SS#. I was pretty sure my husband hadn't made any such inquiry, so I told her I was uncomfortable giving it to her. She said some reassuring thing and then ended up asking me three times! Finally i made it sound like I was giving in ... I said something like "oh, alright .." and then made up a totally bogus number off the top of my head. Now when scammers call me I make up a bogus number and give it to them. They probably hang up all excited and then go waste a whole bunch of their time. Once I got a form to fill out from "bank of america" (where I don't even bank) that asked for all kinds of personal information including account numbers and passwords. So I filled out the whole thing with not a shread of true information. I think I put that my name was Ima Notsodum. Hahaha so much fun!
