Remember the phone scammers, the ones who call me with wrong number messages and they insist I call back? The Internet revealed they were a particularly hated group of cruise telemarketers.
It would seem I’m a tough nut to crack, because they’ve escalated. Every day there’s a call. Once it was “You gotta call me back, man, I’m gonna lose my job!” once “Hey, I’m calling to see if you’re going to pick up this stuff you won at the auction.” They’ve started to vary the numbers they call from too. I never answer an unknown number anymore.
Except for today. I had my phone in my hands, wondering why the new iPhone feature that blocks calls wasn’t working for me, when I got an unknown call. It was from my area code this time, and it surprised me, and I’m afraid to say I answered.
“Hello?” I said.
“I’d like to ask, who are you?” she said, sweetly.
I said, “I’m not anyone you know. You have a wrong number.” And I’m ON TO YOU, I thought.
“Well, I’m calling you because my husband’s been calling your number.”
“No he hasn’t,” I said, “Goodbye,” and I hung up.
Of course she called back and left a message in a huffy tone that would break down at the end of every sentence and turn into a question.
“Hi I just called you; I just wanted to know what your name was so I could speak with my husband about this because I’m having issues with him right now? So, evidently you have been talking to my husband, which, you need to call me back, because I need to know what your name is, and how you met him? If you met him on a line or something? So, call me back, thanks bye.” (Barely audible woman’s voice in the back says “Give her the number.”) “Oh it’s 314-XXX-XXXX.”
Of course I did a reverse lookup and it’s the number for some woman in Hillsboro. The previous messages were from Washington Missouri, so they’re moving closer.
I’m really mean it this time: I’m not answering my phone if I don’t recognize the number from now on. Let’s see how good the acting gets. Right now it’s a tie between the guy who was going to lose his job and this cuckolded wife.
5 responses to “The Phone Scammers Have Gone Too Far”
I think it’s time to call the attorney general’s office in your state. Keep a record of all the numbers and turn them over to that office. That’s what I’d be doing.
This is godawful. Disgusting.
Zayrina – I have made a list and I’m going to maintain it. They have a silent ringtone now, so they’ll just leave more messages I can add to my list and use for my amusement. Then I’ll give the list to the attorney general. I imagine they want to pair a name to a phone number so they can sell it to telemarketers.
Hattie – Bastards. I know. I feel like I have the upper hand now, though.
Can I have the number? I want to call it from work and confess my secret love for her husband, as well as the fact that we have three kids together, so she can never truly break us apart. I don’t give a damn about their legally binding piece of paper – you can’t bind a HEART!
Tami – they haven’t left any messages on my phone lately. Maybe they can tell I’m on to them. Or, maybe the woman shot her husband and is in jail.