They're calling from numbers that have the same area code and first 3 digits of your telephone number. They're usually selling some home or internet security. Someone must have done some research on this because at first I answered 100% of the time and even now I still answer too much.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Happens to me once or twice daily.

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Yeah.. that's one of the annoying ones. Majority to my cell still come from Peoria area but the other ones are catching up.

I won't answer a number I don't recognize.

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This.

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Elections have consequences.

There is something about seeing a number that looks familiar that makes you answer. Then you realize why it looks familiar. I answer all calls though. I tried to block these but they just change the last 4 digits.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

I usually don't answer but sometimes they get me as I'm expecting a call. Others leave voicemail. Like Nas I've blocked enough but they cycle through.

I have an out of state cell phone number so these are easy to spot. So, MOVE.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I have a pager.

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I sold my phone for about 1.5 weeks of health insurance coverage.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

I use this occasionally. I think it's referred to as local ANI.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

This.

If the call is important, they will leave a message. Otherwise, I don't give a fuck.

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No message, it gets blocked as spam.

My "landline" is a Magicjack and I'm constantly getting calls like that. I noticed the trick with the area code,too.

My cellphone is never on and it's a flipphone.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

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Is your Life Alert button ran thru the landline too?

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Keep laughing. I pay about 30 bucks a year for a home phone.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

My phone plays porn.

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How long have you had him?

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

This phone's a piece of junk, goodbye!

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Telemarketers are doing the same stuff around here. With both of our parents local and elderly, it is difficult to blow off a call - especially if it is from the same town.

You never know if it is a neighbor, cop, nurse, etc. Me and Mrs. GF have no choice but to answer every call that seems to be legit. It sucks but it is what it is

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

I initially read this as "Me and Mrs Girlfriend" and I was about you call you 'PittMikeFella'

Then I figured out who Mrs GF was.

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ANOTHER 2pac fan

This started with me a couple months ago and it sucks because all the work phones for our facilities have the same area code and first 3 digits and I don't have them all memorized.

So, now I have to let them all go to voicemail.

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You know me like that.

They are spoofed numbers.

They are spoofing this because services like nomorobo and Ooma can't put them on community blacklists as they are valid residential numbers. Most likely when you answer, you get your extension added to the spoofing list.

Fortunately, there is nobody I want to talk to who has my prefix, so they're all going to VM.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

What I don't get is why do people telemarket anyway?
Has anyone here ever bought something from a telemarketer?
Do you know anyone who has?
It has to have the worst ROI of any marketing plan.

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