What telemarketing call/text irritates you the most?

[Gasser64]

...I can just fade to black.

That's death..

[Sean88gt]

The one telling me my social security number has been suspended. I keep really hoping that is the case so I can just fade to black.

[Big A]

Just thought of another, I've been getting emails and snail mail sent to Frisco from the two CA dealerships that I bought both the X4 and Mustang from, asking me to "upgrade" to a newer model for a similar payment. I eventually opted out of the emails, but the envelopes keep coming every few months.

Fast forward to today, and we now live minutes from Folsom Lake Ford (same from above), I might be in the market for a Bronco next year, and will definitely be trading in the X4 at some point, so I don't suppose it was a complete waste of paper, but I'm not feeling in anyway obligated to do anything but go with the best price/deal I can find at area dealerships.

[cool cat]

Lately I only get calls for an extended warranty for my vehicles. At some point i need to actually engage them because my current newest vehicle was made in 96, and the rest of the drivetrain is newer as well (ls swap), the others are older. I'd love to listen to them squirm for a while.

[shumpertdavid]

Warranty calls ony cell and at work piss me off, however I've been getting a Hispanic automated message for a couple months and I can't understand a damn word being said. I've ma aged to push tendon numbers a few times and get a person in the phone but they hang up as soon as they realize I don't speak Spanish.

I did tell a telemarketer once that I knew where they lived and was coming to skull f$#@ them in their sleep. They didn't think I was being very nice.

[BP]

I get spam texts for Lucy constantly. If I google my phone number it goes to an address in Forest Hill, I've figured out who she is and where she lives but no idea how or why my number is tied to their address.

So as far as the internet is concerned I'm a 68 year old black woman that lives in the hood.

Now I did sell a motorcycle for cash probably 15 years ago and it ended up at a house in Forest Hill because someone was trying to get a bonded title for it. It was pretty much worthless so I threw the notification in the trash, I have a feeling it might be tied to that deal.

[garycrist]

I once got a bill collector (for the children's mother) to meet me once.
I convinced him to quit that job, got him another job and that
B.S. stopped!

I love the call block button!

[Gasser64]

How about the fact that there's 5 missed calls from there per day? And no real way to block them and keep them from appearing on the missed calls list.

I'm thinking about changing my standard response from "I don't give that out" to "Fuck you" when asked for my number from some store/business. I know one of those shits either got hacked or sold my number. Either way it's their fault. Having shit security is no excuse.

[scootro]

I use the App called Hiya. It identifies most spam. I usually also ignore most calls if I don’t recognize them. If they leave a message and I know them I’ll call back.

Hiya is great

[Trip McNeely]

I use the App called Hiya. It identifies most spam. I usually also ignore most calls if I don’t recognize them. If they leave a message and I know them I’ll call back.

[ram57ta]

I can't honestly remember how many times I've gotten called by the FBI and IRS telling me the cops are coming to get me. I get the auto warranty call daily on my company cell phone and just hang up.

[Big A]

The only ones I get are for health insurance, yet we have great coverage that's paid for. Thank God for caller ID, and being back in CA helps, because all 972 era code numbers are all but guaranteed to be spoofed from my cell number.

[jammeejamm]

when i am feeling saucy i try to trick them into discreet, innuendo phone sex. especially the warranty people when you get a live person. they try to stay on task and you just say really obvious innuendos, and then go full 900 number telling them their voice makes my ass so wet and my pants are getting so tight. it never really goes anywhere to be honest. i usually hang up because it feels like they are not into it.

my luck my wife will come in and i will end up in a van down by the river.

[BLAKE]

Car warranty scam calls are the bane of my existence. I have to answer my cell phone for work.

I've done many operations to mess with them, including giving them a fake name, which has worked out great. When they ask for "Homer" I know who I'm dealing with.

Now that I mostly work from home, I keep an air horn on my desk. They don't seem to like that very much.

[4bangen]

Eh. I don't have that sort of time or patience.

I do, I can do my job while keeping them from doing theirs.