Revenge on cold callers and junk mail !
03 July 2007, 12:05 PM
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Revenge on cold callers and junk mail !
Got sent this today sorry if its been posted here before but I thought it was brilliant.
Three Little Words That Work!!
(1) The three little words: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of
hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more
time consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear BT's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's
time to go back and hang up your handset . you have efficiently
completed your task.
These three little words could help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other
end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is then used to determine the best time of day for a real salesperson to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering: If you notice there is no one there, is
to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialled the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
3: When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-prepaid return envelopes, right?
It costs them more than the regular postage "IF" and when they are
returned. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool
little, postage-prepaid return envelopes.
Send an advert for your local chimney sweeper to American Express ...
They might need one! Send a pizza coupon to HSBC, in case their canteen packs up. You get the idea.
If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them back their
blank application form ... after all, it is their form!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make su re your name isn't on
anything you return.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep
Them guessing! It still costs them, and it is their envelope after all you are just returning it
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their
own junk back in the post, but folks ..... we need to OVERWHELM them, in
order to stop them.
Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it ... Twice!
Let's help keep Royal Mail busy. Since the Royal Mail are saying that
e-mail is cutting into their business profits, let's help them so they
will not need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- maybe you'll get
very little junk mail anymore.
Three Little Words That Work!!
(1) The three little words: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of
hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more
time consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear BT's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's
time to go back and hang up your handset . you have efficiently
completed your task.
These three little words could help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other
end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is then used to determine the best time of day for a real salesperson to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering: If you notice there is no one there, is
to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialled the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
3: When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-prepaid return envelopes, right?
It costs them more than the regular postage "IF" and when they are
returned. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool
little, postage-prepaid return envelopes.
Send an advert for your local chimney sweeper to American Express ...
They might need one! Send a pizza coupon to HSBC, in case their canteen packs up. You get the idea.
If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them back their
blank application form ... after all, it is their form!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make su re your name isn't on
anything you return.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep
Them guessing! It still costs them, and it is their envelope after all you are just returning it
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their
own junk back in the post, but folks ..... we need to OVERWHELM them, in
order to stop them.
Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it ... Twice!
Let's help keep Royal Mail busy. Since the Royal Mail are saying that
e-mail is cutting into their business profits, let's help them so they
will not need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- maybe you'll get
very little junk mail anymore.
03 July 2007, 12:10 PM
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4: Revenge on posters of SIAL
When a fellow netter posts sial, respond by posting "Give me an 'S'...." he or she will usually respond with a 'sorry I didn't know' type comment or even an arsey 'Well I thought it was funny' type reply.
When a fellow netter posts sial, respond by posting "Give me an 'S'...." he or she will usually respond with a 'sorry I didn't know' type comment or even an arsey 'Well I thought it was funny' type reply.
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i go to the post office pretty much every day to do my banking so any crap i get in the mailbox, i write "SPAM" on with a big marker and just pop it back into the post box, i`m sure somebody somewhere has to sort them all out 
number 2 re: the # button, can anybody confirm this works?
had a few of them recently, although the number is registerd with TPS.
number 2 re: the # button, can anybody confirm this works?
had a few of them recently, although the number is registerd with TPS.
03 July 2007, 01:28 PM
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Number 2 is myth ...............
I remember that, when the Tomb Raider Series of games were launched, a myth went out that if you tapped the X Button with your toe to the tune of "Karma Chameleon" Lara Croft would take her clothes off.
My very sore toe can state, right now, that it was a wind-up!!!
I remember that, when the Tomb Raider Series of games were launched, a myth went out that if you tapped the X Button with your toe to the tune of "Karma Chameleon" Lara Croft would take her clothes off.
My very sore toe can state, right now, that it was a wind-up!!!
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Correct, its not even doing what the poster describes. Its not interested in the time of day etc. all its doing is dialing random customers when an agent becomes available. the reason nobody is on the other end once you answer is because the agent has already took another call whilst waiting for you to answer so nerrr lol
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I was at home the other night in the middle of my dinner when the phone rang.
ME: Hello.
BT: Hello, this is BT.
ME: Is this BT.
BT: Yes, this is BT ...
ME: This is BT.
BT: Yes, this is BT ...
ME: Is this BT.?
BT: Yes! This is BT, may I speak to Mr. Byron, please?
ME: May I ask who is calling?
BT: This is BT.
ME: OK, hold on.
At this point I put the phone down for a solid 5 minutes thinking that, surely, this person would have hung up the phone. I ate my salad. Much to my surprise, when I picked up the receiver, they were still waiting.
ME: Hello?
BT: Is this Mr. Byron?
ME: May I ask who is calling, please?
BT: Yes, this is BT ...
ME: This is BT?
BT: Yes, this is BT ...
ME: The phone company.
BT: Yes, sir.
ME: I thought you said this was BT.
BT: Yes, sir, we are a phone company.
ME: I already have a phone.
BT: We aren't selling phones today, Mr. Byron. We would like to offer you 1p a minute, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
ME: Now, that's 1p a minute, 24 hours a day?
BT: (getting a little excited at this point by my interest) Yes, sir, that's right! 24 hours a day!
ME: 7 days a week.?
BT: That's right.
ME: 365 days a year.?
BT: Yes, sir.
ME: I am definitely interested in that! Wow!!! That's amazing!
BT: We think so!
ME: That's quite a sum of money!
BT: Yes, sir, it's amazing how it adds up.
ME: OK, so will you send me cheques weekly, monthly or just one big one at the end of the year for the full £5,256; and if you send an annual cheque, can I get a cash advance?
BT: Excuse me?
ME: You know, the 1p a minute.
BT: What are you talking about?
ME: You said you'd give me 1p a minute, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That comes to £14.40 per day, £100.80 per week and £5,256 per year. I'm just interested in knowing how you will be making payment.
BT: Oh, no, sir. I didn't mean we'd be paying you. You pay us 1p a minute.
ME: Wait a minute, how do you figure that by saying that you'll give me 1p a minute, that I'll give YOU 1p a minute? Is this some kind of subliminal telemarketing scheme? I've read about things like this in the Telegraph, you know.
BT: No, sir, we are offering 1p a minute for……….
ME: THERE YOU GO AGAIN! Can I speak to a supervisor please?
BT: Sir, I don't think that is necessary.
ME: I insist on speaking to a supervisor!
BT: Yes, Mr. Byron. Please hold.
At this point, I begin trying to finish my dinner.
SUPERVISOR: Mr. Byron?
ME: Yeah.
SUPERVISOR: I understand you are not quite understanding our 1p a minute program.
ME: Is This BT
SUPERVISOR: Yes, sir, it sure is.
ME: (I had to swallow before I choked on my food. It was all I could do to suppress my laughter and I had to be Careful not to produce a snort.) No, actually, I was just waiting for someone to get back to me so that I could sign up for the plan.
SUPERVISOR: Ok, no problem, I'll transfer you back to the person who was helping you.
ME: Thank you.
I was on hold once again and managed a few more mouthfuls. I need to end this conversation. Suddenly, there was an aggravated but polite voice at the other end of the phone.
BT: Hello, Mr. Byron, I understand that you are interested in signing up for our plan.?
ME: No, but I was wondering - do you have that "Friends and Family" thing because I'm an only child and I'd really like to have a little brother...
BT: click........
ME: Hello.
BT: Hello, this is BT.
ME: Is this BT.
BT: Yes, this is BT ...
ME: This is BT.
BT: Yes, this is BT ...
ME: Is this BT.?
BT: Yes! This is BT, may I speak to Mr. Byron, please?
ME: May I ask who is calling?
BT: This is BT.
ME: OK, hold on.
At this point I put the phone down for a solid 5 minutes thinking that, surely, this person would have hung up the phone. I ate my salad. Much to my surprise, when I picked up the receiver, they were still waiting.
ME: Hello?
BT: Is this Mr. Byron?
ME: May I ask who is calling, please?
BT: Yes, this is BT ...
ME: This is BT?
BT: Yes, this is BT ...
ME: The phone company.
BT: Yes, sir.
ME: I thought you said this was BT.
BT: Yes, sir, we are a phone company.
ME: I already have a phone.
BT: We aren't selling phones today, Mr. Byron. We would like to offer you 1p a minute, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
ME: Now, that's 1p a minute, 24 hours a day?
BT: (getting a little excited at this point by my interest) Yes, sir, that's right! 24 hours a day!
ME: 7 days a week.?
BT: That's right.
ME: 365 days a year.?
BT: Yes, sir.
ME: I am definitely interested in that! Wow!!! That's amazing!
BT: We think so!
ME: That's quite a sum of money!
BT: Yes, sir, it's amazing how it adds up.
ME: OK, so will you send me cheques weekly, monthly or just one big one at the end of the year for the full £5,256; and if you send an annual cheque, can I get a cash advance?
BT: Excuse me?
ME: You know, the 1p a minute.
BT: What are you talking about?
ME: You said you'd give me 1p a minute, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. That comes to £14.40 per day, £100.80 per week and £5,256 per year. I'm just interested in knowing how you will be making payment.
BT: Oh, no, sir. I didn't mean we'd be paying you. You pay us 1p a minute.
ME: Wait a minute, how do you figure that by saying that you'll give me 1p a minute, that I'll give YOU 1p a minute? Is this some kind of subliminal telemarketing scheme? I've read about things like this in the Telegraph, you know.
BT: No, sir, we are offering 1p a minute for……….
ME: THERE YOU GO AGAIN! Can I speak to a supervisor please?
BT: Sir, I don't think that is necessary.
ME: I insist on speaking to a supervisor!
BT: Yes, Mr. Byron. Please hold.
At this point, I begin trying to finish my dinner.
SUPERVISOR: Mr. Byron?
ME: Yeah.
SUPERVISOR: I understand you are not quite understanding our 1p a minute program.
ME: Is This BT
SUPERVISOR: Yes, sir, it sure is.
ME: (I had to swallow before I choked on my food. It was all I could do to suppress my laughter and I had to be Careful not to produce a snort.) No, actually, I was just waiting for someone to get back to me so that I could sign up for the plan.
SUPERVISOR: Ok, no problem, I'll transfer you back to the person who was helping you.
ME: Thank you.
I was on hold once again and managed a few more mouthfuls. I need to end this conversation. Suddenly, there was an aggravated but polite voice at the other end of the phone.
BT: Hello, Mr. Byron, I understand that you are interested in signing up for our plan.?
ME: No, but I was wondering - do you have that "Friends and Family" thing because I'm an only child and I'd really like to have a little brother...
BT: click........
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Or.............. if you don't mind your address going back to them, I have a page or two of address size labels I use sometimes, I stick 'em on the envelopes and they say this...... " Return to sender - if I receive any further mail from your company I will assume you wish to employ me as proof reader and I will bill you at the rate of £100 per hour."
I don't usually hear much more from these companies.
Yve
PS DCI Gene..... I would if I could but I have a life and that kind of interferes with Computer world.
I don't usually hear much more from these companies.
Yve
PS DCI Gene..... I would if I could but I have a life and that kind of interferes with Computer world.
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Cheers dci for the definition of SIAL been a Scoobynet user for over 6 yrs and seem to remember something about that.
Sorry if I have caused anyone any offence by posting the above
Sorry if I have caused anyone any offence by posting the above
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Got sent this today sorry if its been posted here before but I thought it was brilliant.
Three Little Words That Work!!
(1) The three little words: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of
hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more
time consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear BT's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's
time to go back and hang up your handset . you have efficiently
completed your task.
These three little words could help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other
end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is then used to determine the best time of day for a real salesperson to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering: If you notice there is no one there, is
to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialled the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
3: When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-prepaid return envelopes, right?
It costs them more than the regular postage "IF" and when they are
returned. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool
little, postage-prepaid return envelopes.
Send an advert for your local chimney sweeper to American Express ...
They might need one! Send a pizza coupon to HSBC, in case their canteen packs up. You get the idea.
If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them back their
blank application form ... after all, it is their form!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make su re your name isn't on
anything you return.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep
Them guessing! It still costs them, and it is their envelope after all you are just returning it
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their
own junk back in the post, but folks ..... we need to OVERWHELM them, in
order to stop them.
Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it ... Twice!
Let's help keep Royal Mail busy. Since the Royal Mail are saying that
e-mail is cutting into their business profits, let's help them so they
will not need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- maybe you'll get
very little junk mail anymore.
Three Little Words That Work!!
(1) The three little words: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of
hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more
time consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear BT's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's
time to go back and hang up your handset . you have efficiently
completed your task.
These three little words could help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other
end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is then used to determine the best time of day for a real salesperson to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering: If you notice there is no one there, is
to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialled the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
3: When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-prepaid return envelopes, right?
It costs them more than the regular postage "IF" and when they are
returned. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool
little, postage-prepaid return envelopes.
Send an advert for your local chimney sweeper to American Express ...
They might need one! Send a pizza coupon to HSBC, in case their canteen packs up. You get the idea.
If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them back their
blank application form ... after all, it is their form!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make su re your name isn't on
anything you return.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep
Them guessing! It still costs them, and it is their envelope after all you are just returning it
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their
own junk back in the post, but folks ..... we need to OVERWHELM them, in
order to stop them.
Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it ... Twice!
Let's help keep Royal Mail busy. Since the Royal Mail are saying that
e-mail is cutting into their business profits, let's help them so they
will not need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- maybe you'll get
very little junk mail anymore.
Been doing this for a while.
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