Telemarketer Retry Fail

[HawaiianShirts]

Mrs. Shirts has been receiving calls from some "restricted" number for a few days now. She just ignores them after having answered once and getting some kind of sales pitch. Another such call came in a couple nights ago, and I decided to answer it to have some fun.

Me: (in a thick fake Russian accent) 'Allo!
Overly Perky Telemarketer: (spoken very quickly so I understood less than half of what she said) Hello blahblahblah from blahblah. Blahblah you like to blahblahblah? You blahblahblah guess blahblah 31 flavors blahblahblahblahblah. Blahblah win a blahblah! Blah?
Me: Eh... Sorry, I am not understanding words you are saying.
OPT: Oh! Well blablah you speak blablahblahblah sweepstakes?
Me: You are making nonsense. I am cannot understand you.
OPT: ... Hello?
Me: No, is goodbye now. You go away.

And I hung up. Not two minutes later, the phone rings again, and the call shows up as "restricted." I answer.

Me: (same fake accent) 'Allo!
Spanish Telemarketer: Hola?
Me: What is you need? Why you call?
ST: (says something in Spanish)
Me: (makes up something that sounds vaguely Russian)
ST: No. *click*

My best guess? The overly perky girl heard my fake accent, assumed I spoke Spanish, and passed the phone number to a Spanish-speaking co-worker so she could call me and try to con me into this obviously ice cream related scheme. Whatever the case, we haven't heard from them since.

[eltf177]

That is freakin' _brilliant_! I gotta borrow that the next time I get one of those!

[Sapphire Silk]

Oooh! That's good.

Next time I answer a call from a restricted number, I'm going to say "moshi moshi!"

[Soulstealer]

I had a problem where I'd get texts from random numbers about some insurance payment and they always promised that it would stop if I texted STOP back.

Because confirming that it's a valid number won't get me more telemarketers at all.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Boris is name of accent. Have life of its own.

[NecessaryCatharsis]

Boris is name of accent. Have life of its own.

Stupid question time: How do you rename the link, while having the link still work? The only way I know to do it, it looks like this:

http://notalwaysright.com/in-soviet-...eaks-you/39150

[Jay 2K Winger]

Stupid question time: How do you rename the link, while having the link still work? The only way I know to do it, it looks like this:

http://notalwaysright.com/in-soviet-...eaks-you/39150

[ URL = site link ] alternate name [ / URL ]

Minus the spaces.

[AccountingDrone]

I got into the habit of answering the phone Aru bei <Rob's last name, which happens to be Alsatian German> and the Aru properly as 'h<heavily rolled R>u in a very German accent. [Rammstein, teaching German since '94 =)] and I do quite a good German accent - spending as much time playing games on German and Euro servers as much as I do =) If someone starts talking at me, I can always go into riffs on 'entschuldegung, bitte' or 'Ich verstehe nicht' .. then if they start speaking german, 'kan je repeate assebleife' [afrikaans] which tends to confuse them totally and they hang up. =) If that doesn't work I might swing into Romanian or Croatian.

[lordlundar]

Stupid question time: How do you rename the link, while having the link still work? The only way I know to do it, it looks like this:

http://notalwaysright.com/in-soviet-...eaks-you/39150

Quick way is to type out what you want it to show as (ie "This link here" without quotes), highlight it, then click the link button above. A window will pop up and you put the link in. Click confirm then it will be filled out properly.

[NecessaryCatharsis]

Jay 2k and lordlunder; thanks guys, I`ve got it now.

[HawaiianShirts]

Boris is name of accent. Have life of its own.

My accent's name is Lev.

[Jay 2K Winger]

My accent's name is Lev.

My accent's name is Vitaly.

"My name is Vitaly. How can I be of assistance?"

[Seshat]

"Helga's Heavenly House of (w)Hores, our business is your pleasure. How can we service you today?"


Bast once responded to a telemarketer as if she were providing a phone sex service. Until she burst out laughing, admitted she couldn't keep it up, and hung up on them.


(And yes, my alternate-persona is Helga, the Madam.)

[CoffeeMonkey]

A friend kept getting wrong number calls on her phone, and she explained that it was a wrong number to the people calling more than once. We were talking about it at the annual NYE party, when it rang again. Another friend took the phone and answered in Spanish. She reported that the woman on the other end said to someone else "Is this some Chinese number, Shorty?" and then hung up.

Never called again.

[mjr]

You could talk like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GGA1a4nyVs