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[morwen]

I just had the oddest phone conversation with a cold caller doing a "survey". During it, I claimed that I was 512 years old, that there was nobody else younger than me in the house; that I was not the highest income person in the dwelling, and that that person did not work full-time or part-time but was a member of the idle rich, owning half of London. And he still didn't hang up. Do you think that in fact his claim that he wasn't going to try to sell me something was false?

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[pfy.livejournal.com]

Nice work! I also try to waste telespammers' time, in the hope that if enough people do the same their business model will stop working.

The ones calling our home number are mostly debt-management parasites. Unfortunately, outrageous lies cause them to hang up, so I have to try to quote figures that sound plausible but high enough for them to think they have a total sucker. It's a bit like one of those games with the wire loop and the buzzer, except that the reward for getting to the end is, "Can I have your address so we can send you an information pack?" / "No, I'm just doing this to waste your time" / "!@$!&%@$!*click*"