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12 May 2018

ANONYMOUS PHONE CALL

Phone calls from ‘unavailable’ are usually from people who either have nothing better to do or selling something I don’t want. I do NOT answer calls with no name or number. I’m referring to the land line, I never got funny callers on the mobile phone, until now, and this was a real beauty! Read on…

THIS IS HMRC (Her Majesty’s something or other). WE HAVE FOUND AN ARREST WARRANT IN YOUR NAME. PRESS 1 IMMEDIATELY TO SPEAK TO YOUR CASE OFFICER

Well, I would if I could remember doing something wrong but honestly I plead NOT GUILTY of ANYTHING. If you don’t hear from me for a few years you’ll know I was arrested and locked up. I worry about Charlie if I do get locked up for something I didn’t do.

Seriously,  isn't it time phone companies put a stop to these pests?

12 comments:

  1. Haha, that's a classic, but I feel sorry for people who do fall for these phone calls. I never answer the landline it always goes on to answer phone. If it's important they'll say who they are and then I'll pick up.

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    1. I never answer the landline when I see that it's a rubbish call, but this was on the mobile. After many years, it was the first on there. Someone got my number! Fortunately, I didn't answer it, nor did I press 1 !!!

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  2. I don't answer either, they can leave a message.

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    1. I did get a message, one that made me laugh at the foolishness of others.

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  3. I don't answer these calls either, there is one going around here supposedly from the Internal Revenue Service wanting you to press 1 to continue, this is almost as bad as your arrest warrant! You didn't happen to get yourself a golf cart and go about terrorizing the neighborhood unlicensed did you? Ha Ha

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    1. Haha... and I thought no-one noticed, Jimmy!

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  4. and they usually call when I'm occupied eating dinner....grrrr.:(

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    1. That's not good enough, TB. Hope the phone is close to the table.

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  5. " If you don’t hear from me for a few years you’ll know I was arrested and locked up."

    HAHAHAHAHAHA! Made me laugh out loud!

    We have this new thing on our landline phones, here in the US. If a caller is suspected as spam, it will read on my caller ID "SPAM" and then display the phone number. It's kind of like when you get a spam email and your spam filter puts it into a spam folder.

    Like you, whether on my cell phone or landline phone, I do not answer unless I know the number because here in the US, like you, even our cell phones are now getting inundated with spam callers.

    Have a super rest of your weekend, my friend!

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    1. Good morning, Ron. Well, that was the first on the cell phone... hope it's the last. I wonder how much the phone companies make for allowing these calls to take place. The content of this one made me smile, though and I wonder if anybody WOULD press 1.

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  6. I don't answer phone calls that display no number either. I once new an old lady who told a double glazing cold caller that she lived in a council house and she had no money. This wasn't true and they never rang again.

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    1. Good idea, Dave. I will try that approach if a situation arises that I even answer the damn phone. Fortunately I have caller ID on the landline, thus avoiding unknowns, Unfortunately, the mobile phone lets everything through.

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