New Approach for a Telemarketer

@just4him (303373)
Green Bay, Wisconsin
December 10, 2018 2:54pm CST
I just received a phone call. I didn't give my name. I didn't recognize the number. The person asked if I just called her number. Of course, I hadn't. As most of you know, my phone and I aren't bosom buddies. The fact, I had it on my desk at my fingertips is rare. So, after telling her I hadn't called anyone in quite a while, true, not since my daughter called this morning, but she called me, I didn't call her, I haven't called anyone in a long time. Not since Friday when I had to make a call to cancel the study group. I don't know if she expected me to say anything further, but I didn't and she just hung up without going into any spiel about anything. Has your phone ever made calls without you pressing the buttons? Just curious and wondering if this is something new in phone technology or a new marketing approach, that if I had given my name, would have led down another rabbit trail. Anyway, my daughter was here. We had a good visit. I've already finished one chapter on Thread of Evidence and I'm working on the next. Only 11 pages on this one, so should go well. I'm going to get back to editing. I'll be here when I finish this chapter. I hope your day is going well. Thanks for reading.
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@GardenGerty (157049)
• United States
10 Dec 18
I do not even answer them if I do not know the number.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Dec 18
It's an automatic reflex. I know there are people from church who call occasionally and I don't have their number in my phone.
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@DianneN (246452)
• United States
10 Dec 18
Never. It sounds like a scam. I don’t answer the phone if I don’t recognize the number.
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@DianneN (246452)
• United States
11 Dec 18
@just4him Sometimes I do, but hang up immediately if it’s a scammer. No wasting my breath or time with them.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
@DianneN I hang up before they've said a couple of words.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
There are people at church who call me and I don't have their number stored in my phone, so I always pick up.
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@Fleura (28949)
• United Kingdom
10 Dec 18
And talking of phones doing strange things, on Sunday we were meeting friends for a walk. When we couldn't find them I sent a text to say we were there. I then got a notification to say that a text-to-speech message had been sent to someone totally different! And no I didn't use the wrong number, the original message was showing as having been sent to the right person. Someone else must have received one of those weird robotic voices on their landline saying "We're here!" and had no clue who sent it!
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
That is strange.
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@JudyEv (323744)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Dec 18
I've read below that maybe your number DID call her. That is scary.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
It is scary to think so. I found my number online with the city I live in.
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@JohnRoberts (109865)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Dec 18
I never pick up the phone.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Dec 18
I need to because it might be someone I know. I don't have everyone's number stored in my phone of those I know, especially from church.
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@Nevena83 (65287)
• Serbia
10 Dec 18
And it happened to me that the phone prompted somebody.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
I'm sorry that happened to you too.
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@Nevena83 (65287)
• Serbia
11 Dec 18
@just4him Thank you. It only happened to me a couple of times.
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@amadeo (111956)
• United States
10 Dec 18
Good luck on your book.I have not been getting any calls lately.Never answered them and block them.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Dec 18
There are people from church who call occasionally. I don't have their number stored in my phone, so I do answer the phone when it rings.
@Fleura (28949)
• United Kingdom
10 Dec 18
I guess it's possible she might actually have missed a call from someone and then tried to call them back and made a mistake with the number!
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Dec 18
She said she pressed the number that came up on her phone, so she wasn't pressing buttons, so she said.
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@JESSY3236 (18753)
• United States
11 Dec 18
Ditto to the comments below. I got a scam call from my own number twice. I had to block my own number.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
12 Dec 18
I'm sorry you had to block your own number. How do people call you?
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@JESSY3236 (18753)
• United States
14 Dec 18
@just4him people still call me.
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@andriaperry (116876)
• Anniston, Alabama
10 Dec 18
I get a robo call now, they say hey I am returning your call and then goes on to tell me about making $10,000 a week, give me a call back and leaves their number.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
10 Dec 18
This wasn't a robocall. It was an actual person.
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@kobesbuddy (73894)
• East Tawas, Michigan
10 Dec 18
I had a similar phone call, 'did you call my number?' My reply was, 'Nope!' I never volunteer one ounce of information, someone could use. Is this Kharla, with another call. My response was, 'Who is this?' They hung up on me.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
If they know me and can identify themselves, then I'm good with it, since I don't have everyone's number in my phone from church or Writer's Guild.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
@kobesbuddy That's the best way. I usually do the same, unless they know it's me when I call.
@kobesbuddy (73894)
• East Tawas, Michigan
11 Dec 18
@just4him Whenever I call someone, the first things I do is volunteer my full name. Then, I explain what I'm calling about. This way, they know it's not someone playing mind games.
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@Hannihar (129129)
• Israel
11 Dec 18
@just4him I do not recall my phone doing what happened to yours.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
It's the first time it did. I hope it never does again.
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@Hannihar (129129)
• Israel
11 Dec 18
@just4him I hope so too.
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@JustBhem (70601)
• Davao, Philippines
11 Dec 18
At one time, I received a call from someone I don't know and he keeps insisting I did call him first. I told him I did not recognize the number and I did not call someone. I also check my phone but I did not make any calls. He shut up when I told him and that why would I call you when this phone doesn't have a call credit for a month now.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
I'm sorry that happened to you too.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
@JustBhem Yes, they will.
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@JustBhem (70601)
• Davao, Philippines
11 Dec 18
@just4him Some people will call random numbers just to have someone to annoy too.
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@hillhjill (23664)
• United States
10 Dec 18
Glad you and your daughter had a good visit. I have had people call me before saying I called them, oh yeah well I don't know you and it's not in my call log that I called. I don't know but it's weird when it happens. Probably the government lol.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
Yes, we had a wonderful visit. Not in my call log either.
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@hillhjill (23664)
• United States
11 Dec 18
@just4him It's a ghost in the machine lol.
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@annierose (18926)
• Philippines
11 Dec 18
Haven't experienced that. Perhaps they just dialled the wrong number. Good luck with your book.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
I would like to think so, but after checking my phone number online, I don't think it was a wrong number. Thank you.
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@marlina (154183)
• Canada
11 Dec 18
I don't answer the call if i don't know the number.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
I get calls from people from church that I don't have stored on my phone, so I need to answer it.
• United States
11 Dec 18
Yes, as you see in the comments, in order to get people to answer their phones they hijack local numbers. It happened to me.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
12 Dec 18
I'm sorry it happened to you too.
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@responsiveme (22932)
• India
11 Dec 18
It is puzzling when these things hapo happen
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
11 Dec 18
Yes, it is puzzling.
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@porwest (78733)
• United States
16 Dec 18
If I call someone unexpectedly, we generally call that a butt dial. It's in my back pocket, something turns it on, and a button gets inadvertently pressed by my unknowing cheek, and a call is made.
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
17 Dec 18
I've heard of it happening but never did it myself. Since I mentioned it here, and shared it with a few other people, it seems it's a telemarketer scam. The people I talked to had the same thing happen.
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@Janet357 (75678)
11 Dec 18
Hahahaha you are smarter than they are. IM wondering what she was going to offer. Was it american too or some foreigners?
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@just4him (303373)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
12 Dec 18
American. Thank you. I don't want to know.
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