My favorite call was from someone claiming I owed taxes because of a sex crime I had committed. How unfair!
I got several calls from “Microsoft.” I don’t usually answer unknown callers, but my husband does. Last time I answered by accident, then asked the caller if he could hold on. I then put the phone in the bathroom and went back to working on my computer. I checked periodically – took him a while to give up. I don’t get those calls any more, but I think that’s more because of nomorobo than anything I did.
Greenwich - my H’s cell phone number used to be that of a sex toy shop, so when he first got it, he got some interesting calls.
I got a solar panel call tonight–those have been my most frequent scam calls lately. I like to listen for a moment, then tell them I don’t think things would work out between us because I live in my car.
Dang! We don’t have a caller ID on the landline.
I usually get one or two hang up messages on my answering machine. When working from home last week, I answered the phone and got the Microsoft call.
I just told him that I didn’t have a computer. It worked.
I haven’t gotten those other types of calls, but I am inundated with
“We are working in your neighborhood and would like to stop by and give you an estimate for XXX”. My answer… I’m a contractor myself and I don’t see anyone working in my neighborhood that I don’t know.
Solar Energy… every possible angle on this one, including ‘surveys’. I could not get one guy off the phone because he kept trying to ask me questions from the ‘survey’ about my electric bill.
Lately, I’ve been getting more scam calls on my cell phone. I don’t answer unknown numbers, so those calls go to voicemail. We need a landline, but I turn off the ringer on the phone and don’t give out the number. That phone is for our convenience and safety, not for use by pollsters and scammers.
I got the Microsoft call just tonight. Stupidly I tend to answer more calls around Christmas, because sometimes we get the once a year call from friendswho don’t normally call.