A long time ago I worked in the mail room of a Fortune 500 company. I used to get these phone calls where someone was selling a business directory that would be "updated" every month. Of course, each monthly volume cost something like $150.00.
In the beginning I used to quickly hang up. After a while though I started letting them go through their entire pitch. My boss and I discovered that, even if we agreed to the purchase we still had to be transferred to someone else for final verification at which time I would change my mind and tell the person they transferred to: no thanks!.
I decided it if they were going to call people and try to scam them then I owed it to my fellow mail room compatriots in corporate America to waste as much time of these con artists as possible. The fewer phone calls they could make, the fewer victims they would catch.
I realized later, while it was still a scam, the person doing the actual calling was most likely some poor schmo sitting in a call center somewhere having nothing to directly do with what he was pitching. Still, they must have realized at some point what they were doing.
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Date: 2008-07-17 03:18 am (UTC)In the beginning I used to quickly hang up. After a while though I started letting them go through their entire pitch. My boss and I discovered that, even if we agreed to the purchase we still had to be transferred to someone else for final verification at which time I would change my mind and tell the person they transferred to: no thanks!.
I decided it if they were going to call people and try to scam them then I owed it to my fellow mail room compatriots in corporate America to waste as much time of these con artists as possible. The fewer phone calls they could make, the fewer victims they would catch.
I realized later, while it was still a scam, the person doing the actual calling was most likely some poor schmo sitting in a call center somewhere having nothing to directly do with what he was pitching. Still, they must have realized at some point what they were doing.