Lol

Oh Boy! I can't wait for my phone call. :-)

LOL oh boy....I'm going to sit by the phone all day.

I could really use that. I wonder how you've got on their list? I suppose you probably had to give them your bank account number, didn't you?

:*)

And I'm going to get a deal on my student loans...of course, I don't have any, but still! :)

I'm going to get my computer fixed free too....Microsoft said so! ;)

I have so enjoyed the reduction in my credit card rates, discount medical supplies and hearing aids and all the wonderful charities I am now able to support. My telephone has became an absolute JOY. :-)

An here I am all happy that my Social Security number didn't get suspended, and also that I didn't get arrested. Nobody has offered me free money yet. :)

I love watching Kitboga on Youtube and Twitch. He scam baits all these scammers and plays different characters. Hilarious but also shows how terrible these scammers can be especially to seniors who fall for the scams. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm22FAXZMw1BaWeFszZxUKw

Don't spend it, hold on to that money. You can use it to pay the IRS and Microsoft Security/Technical Support when they call you.

You mean I shouldn't have wired all that money to Nigeria???

all I get are offers to spend a free two nights at a great hotel, and I'm too stupid to accept it.

"You mean I shouldn't have wired all that money to Nigeria???"

That was important to do. That was to get your grandson out of jail.

And if I don't contact my phone call people immediately I get to go to jail because I did not appear before a federal court judge or jury! That was my final warning months and months ago. I still have the recording just for a smile. Of course I reported it

I want $9,000! Too bad I don't answer the phone when it rings. ;-)

There is something wrong with my google business listing. They have been calling me repeatedly about fixing it.

And apple keeps calling me about my apple products! I don't have any of course but how nice of them to check. My lost grandson called me the other day, he had a very strange accent! I didn't know he was traveling in foreign countries.

Microsoft keeps wanting to fix my windows computer. I tell them OK but it's a chromebook can they still fix it?

I will be waiting for the free money now!

"That was important to do. That was to get your grandson out of jail."

Funny...they mentioned that but it seemed odd since my grandson is only 4. Oh well, I guess someone there could use the money to get out of jail. Hey, I'm all about giving.

I'd be quite happy to have Microsoft fix my computer (sarc) but I really wish they wouldn't call at 3:30 AM with the offer. And at least I'm no longer getting those free cruise phone calls that start with the ship horn blasting.

But wow, $9000, that's quite the score. Congratulations!

The call starts with, "You sure are hard to catch at home". Seems the Policemen & Firemen don't get paid enough.

That Google lady has been calling here too. She's very prompt and reliable as she calls at 8:00 very morning.

hey, I could use some of that money to pay for the warranty renewal on my '96 Buick and for the college loans I never had.

You all are great! Love all the responses!

And my call said I was going to jail ..,

For months before I left for my trip to Japan I got calls almost everyday from some Chinese woman who left me lengthy messages in Chinese on my voicemail. When I got to Japan they stopped suddenly and haven't started back. Weird.

Funny after I added calls to Mexico on my phone plan I got lots of callers speaking to me in Spanish. Mexicans who know me know Spanish is not my first language.

Didn't Andrew Yang (Dem. presidential hopeful) say we should ban robo calls? That should be enough to get him elected, lol!

eta: I decided to check my memory...yes he did! I'd ban robocalls!

That is an awesome campaign promise, but good luck with enforcing any sort of ban.

OK, I'm far from being a techie or an engineer or any kind of high thinker and I don't mind admitting it. But how hard would it be to create phone programs that will allow only the phone numbers you want to answer loaded in and all the rest go to a "trash bin" to be reviewed at the user's leisure?

You can do that with cell phones so it should be possible with all phones. If you use DND on your cell phone you can allow only callers in your contacts to call through - although I don't know if it allows messages from others. I'll have to check.

eta, it does look like other callers can leave a message when you're in DND and allow only your contacts to reach you.

Dawn, the technology exists to not allow robo calls to come through, but your provider has to make it available or you can't get it (on landlines at least). I suppose the FCC could mandate that all providers must make the technology available to their customers.

Thanks, Olychick. I just figure that no matter what sort of technology becomes available, the robo call people will figure out a way around it and they sure won't honor any bans on robocalling because they aren't honorable people.

Got a call from my "favorite grandson" this week. Wow, his voice certainly has changed. I assume the calling grandson was my older one, as he will soon be 13. But his voice sounded like a man in his late 40's, so I didn't recognize him. It couldn't have been the 10 year old or the 7 month old.