01792 474700 : don't bother answering

[Mike Fishcake]

ya could just ask em to 'call you back' on one of the other numbers on here..

taking 2 of them out of the loop

That is the best idea of the entire thread.

FACT.

Brilliant

[mcmiller]

yeah you should give the name of somebody at one of the callcentres and ask them to phone you back on it, that would be hilarious.
Scott mills does the same sort of thing except with fast food shops

[manwithnoname]

Maybe I'm just too soft, but taking it out on the poor sods who're getting 5$ a day or less to make the calls just isn't cricket as far as I'm concerned...

Goldman Sachs is to pay its staff more than £8bn (average salary of £300K)

I'm sure the good people at Goldman Sachs will feel sorry for me when they find out what I get paid an hour. It all relative, 5$ not great from were I stand - ok it's terrible - but if I was been paid 3$ ...

...There are a lot of clever people here, who could probably figure out how to inflict a DOS attack on their employers or something.

May be a few of us could club together and pay a few people 4$ a day to arrange this - not that anyone would ever seriously consider such a devious plan

[Workaholic]

There is a MP3 somewhere of a guy who recorded a call like this, and pretended to be a copper, and sort of implicated the caller in a murder investigation Sweet !

I just speak to them in Mandarin Chinese or Russian, that gets em going.

Here you are:
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=93883

[Tobeman]

Heh. I keep getting called from the numbers and they leave a message each time of them putting the phone down. So far, thats 30p they've cost me! Bastards!

Its getting annoying now.

Funnily enough, I found this thread at the bottom of the google page for "01792 350023" Go hexus!

[trog]

I used to work for a company where I was left alone for most of the day without anyone to talk to. One day I figured I'd answer the telesales call with "thank god you called, I'm so lonely, will you be my friend?"
obviously they hung up and the telesales calls reduced. It's amazing what a little crazy can do..

[MadduckUK]

i may do that at some point if i know its not the boss calling

[Tobeman]

And another, thats now 3 a day since about Tuesday/Wednesday

[bledd]

let them speak to arnie for a while!

[Gorgeous]

Here you are:
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=93883

Bugger me, thats just made me cry Awesome

[Whiternoise]

Our landline used to be a petshop, so we got at least one call a week from some old biddy asking whether we stocked x y and z cat food. We started being nice and saying "look residential, comprendez?" but if they continually called back - ie they thought we were BS'ing them, we'd just make up random crap like saying we only sold small children in cages..

"would you like one madam? They make excellent butlers.."

But yeah, on a lighter note, if anyone prank calls you, wait till they give you the opening spiele (ie so you know it's a cold caller) and you have a number of options:

1. Speak in a different language - this is a surefire way of getting the guy at the other end of the line hopelessly confused (most are trained to answer specific responses either yes/no i imagine)

2. Reply with a "cold call" of your own, e.g. "Hi, you've reached the XXXXXXXX Satanists Club, would you like to join?".
-as a sidenote, i wonder if you could get someone fired by answering as if you were a sex line..?

3. As people have said, make obscene noises in the background (i would have thought screaming in pleasure must unnerve cold callers)

4. Give random responses (works better for UK people)

- If they ask where you live, you say : "See those two houses over there? Well, i live in the house in the middle"
- If asked by BT for instance if you need a new phone, say "Yes, as you can hear, my phone is completely broken, i can't make or recieve calls at all.."
- Philosophical statements also work well.

[G4Z]

There is a MP3 somewhere of a guy who recorded a call like this, and pretended to be a copper, and sort of implicated the caller in a murder investigation Sweet !

I just speak to them in Mandarin Chinese or Russian, that gets em going.

google 'Tom Mabe'

[Whiternoise]

http://aglobalit.com/media/mediafile...merService.mp3

Oh that is a keeper!

[finlay666]

Just as an idea to stop them calling, do the prank call on them.

One person got called cold calling, so the person on the end of the line pretended to be a murder investigator with the dead persons phone being called, then got them to answer LOADS of questions (some not so important) and then started going off on tangents lol

I dont think they would be calling back

[manwithnoname]

Just as an idea to stop them calling, do the prank call on them.

One person got called cold calling, so the person on the end of the line pretended to be a murder investigator with the dead persons phone being called, then got them to answer LOADS of questions (some not so important) and then started going off on tangents lol

I dont think they would be calling back

May something like this

Here you are:
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=93883

EDIT: The 'Where do you work' questioning is great..

Tom likes his phone calls...

[shelley bda]

I was feeling devilish one day when I had a call through from some sales or something or other, they'd rung a few times
( caller display is genius ) last time I got annoyed, picked up the phone and was saying "hmmm yes, oh yeah, can you repeat that!" so they would "was it you who called earlier? what did you want" listened "You called loads of times, I know I ignored you, what did you want again?"- "can you speak up?" "eh?" "are you bored?" "does that job pay well then?" "forgot what it was you wanted now"

This went on and on until they put the phone down