I suspect that's exactly right. I led e-mail scammers on a few times. Got the fake money orders in the mail. Listened to them start to get anxious and nasty in e-mails when they thought they about had me. It got old. Wasting my time on slime.

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Te futueo et caballum tuum

1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

My approach is =>

"hello?"

"hello?"

"hello?"

"****ing phone"

hang up

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

I like to tell them about the Watch Tower or the Book Of Mormon. It's rather funny just how fast they try to get off the phone...

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

Its not worth my time. 95% of the time its a 18 year old kid who couldn't find a better job and hates working for the company.

The 300E didn't sell yet, I'm probably going to end up just throwing it on craigslist and dealing with it.

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TC
Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

I got a call yesterday from a firm saying that my 2013 Nissan Altima (which only has 1300 miles btw) warranty has expired and I need to buy it from them. I asked them for a joint of their stuff - which they didnt like to answer.

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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model)

1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017)
2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017)

I would like some of that for my Hookah as well please.

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CHILCUTT~
The secret to a long life. Is knowing when it is time to leave.

Yep. They win.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

When I was young I vented at telemarketers occasionally. At some point I realized they are just trying to make a meager living. After that realization, when they call and say “can i talk to ...?” I said hang on and I’ll check. And then they went on hold never to be taken off. Few wait more than a minute or 2 minutes before hanging up. Occasionally the hold light will blink for half an hour.

I like the idea of making money off them.

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Strelnik
Invest in America: Buy a Congressman!

1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

I like the one from the fake collections agent who wants part of the 3,000.00 that my father, who has been dead 8 years, incurred six months ago.

I have had so many cons call me that now I no longer answer any calls where people don't identify themselves and leave a name.

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Strelnik
Invest in America: Buy a Congressman!

1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

That's standard fare.
They have some 'next level' stuff goin down over here in Asia.

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CHILCUTT~
The secret to a long life. Is knowing when it is time to leave.

We also got these calls on a daily basis. We switched to Phone Power (a VOIP company). We kept our same number and saved money. They have a "Block Call List" feature which will either send the blocked calls to voice mail or get a busy signal, which ever I choose. It blocks these call so well that we don't even know they called. Love it. There are cheaper VOIP companies out there but some don't have the features I like.

Paul

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84 500 SEL (307,xxx miles)

"Pay up or the Triad will break your legs?"

You're lucky that they're polite enough to use the same caller ID # consistently. Mine sometimes call from nonexistent gibberish numbers like 035-146-3563, "unknown number", or something like 212-554-xxxx, where xxxx is a random string of digits that changes per call.

My other method of dealing with them is steadily making a low whistle into the phone till they hang up. Generally doesn't take more than 5-10 sec. No more than one lung-capacity, anyway...

^ If you donna recognize the number from a different area code, why answer?