Reply #15: Here's how I deal with these people. [View All]

[Nye Bevan]

I pretend to be interested. I tell them I have about $9000 of credit card debt, at 19% interest, and that I would love to lower my interest rate. I keep them on hold for a few minutes while "going to look for my card". I pretend there is someone at the door and keep them on hold for a few more minutes. I give them a fake card number (still beginning with 5466). I transpose a couple of digits of the customer service phone number for the credit card (which they ask for). When it doesn't work I give them the correct customer service phone number, but they are still trying with the fake credit card number. I then tell them that I had the expiration date wrong. Basically I try to waste their time for as long as I feel like. I then tell them that I was making it all up to waste their time as punishment for calling people on the "do not call" list. All of a sudden, "sweetie" and "honey" is replaced by "fuck you" and threats to call me every day from now on (which they invariably do not follow through on as they know that all they will do is waste their scamsters' valuable time again).