We’re inundated by telemarketers.
The phone rings day and night with scammers and I’ve gotten to the point where if I don’t recognize your number, I don’t answer.
Sorry, even then.
We get all the usual ones…. Rachel from card holder services, the IRS, Windows tech support, expiring warranties, and occasionally the bank who wants me to pay back the college loans I never took.
But the other day, this message broke the monotony.
If any of my readers are fluent in Chinese….
Can you please tell me what I ordered and when it will be delivered?
( Game of Thrones may be over…
But the memes live on. )
River's world..... 
Oh yes, I know all too well.
If they leave a message then fine, but nine times out of ten they don’t.
Sometimes I connect the call but don’t say anything, and after a few seconds the call is disconnected.
Stinkin robocalls. ***grrr
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They’re endless and soooo annoying. I specifically hate the ones that spoof local numbers. The husband is always picking up on those…
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I don’t even bother with the local numbers. If it’s vital, they should leave me a message. My wife did that once when she locked her phone in the car (along with the key fob – which btw is not supposed to be possible), and she had to call me from a borrowed phone.
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That’s what I keep telling him. But he gets a lot of work related calls from weird numbers and doesn’t agree.
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Wednesday, the lady that sits behind me got a call labeled, “scam likely”… a few minutes later, I got one that said, “scam likely”. We don’t even live in the same state…
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Damn things are everywhere. Landlines, mobile, email…. There’s no escape.
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Oh gawd yes, I get them at work too, so I don’t answer then delete any voicemails they might leave. Thank goodness for spam filters, it’s helped me tons since my son got our cell phones and installed them, ugh.
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I don’t get nearly as many of them on my cell. But then again, I only give that number to friends so that’s probably why.
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I think she said that if you don’t send $200 in Chinese Yuan, the IRS is going to put you in prison …
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That makes sense… except isn’t 200 yuan like 12 cents? Hardly seems worth the effort.
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Well, at least it’s [more or less] human contact. My 90-yo mother-in-law is constantly complaining that “no one ever calls me” (usually right after all three of my kids have called her). I just hope she never gets the Social Security scam call – that one is truly intimidating and I can just picture her sending someone out to get those cash cards.
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It’s sad how many people still fall for the scams. My husband’s uncle lost a couple hundred on that old one where they pretend to be your grandchild in jail.
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Ugh. My mother-in-law hasn’t gotten that one yet. I’m sure she’d fall for it, too.
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A lot of times I don’t answer my phone even when I recognize the number…
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I think that’s another blog entirely…
🤣
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i don’t answer our land line anymore. Leave a message and I’ll decide if I want to get back to you. This hasn’t slowed down the number of useless calls, but it does make me feel like a rebel, ignoring the world like a badass.
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Exactly. My answering machine message even says… “We might call you back”
Take that telemarketers!
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I got that same call, left a voice mail in Chinese. Think we won the same prize?!
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Could be….
Although with my luck it’s probably a lifetime supply of kale chips.
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That message sounds like pig Latin to me. Perhaps the errant pig that appeared in your 9/25 post could translate for you.
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If they ever find him, sure…
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That’s the Chinese drywall your husband ordered for fixing up the barn.
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Damn. I didn’t answer and now they’ll probably deliver it to some other decrepit barn.
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It’s the Illuminati
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*gulp*
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haha!
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Don’t pick up the phone or I’ll tell you I know what you did last summer! 😮 LOL. Mona
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Thank you for the warning…
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I try 🙂
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I have received a couple of messages in Chinese. But since I’ve worked with clients and offices there it didn’t seem too crazy. The only words I could understand in your message were nǐ hǎo, which means hello. The only other Mandarin I know is for goodbye and ice water (while that last one may sound weird go to my blog post on this subject and it will make more sense.)
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Hello? Well, at least they’re more polite than most…
😉
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I would love to know what she’s saying! We got rid of the house phone because only scammers would ring. I get a hand full every so often on my mobile phone. It’s so bloody annoying.
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And why do they always call at dinner time? Because you know I have to get up and look at the number. I have to…
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The calls are truly annoying. We don’t answer if we don’t know the number, unless we’re expecting a call from a new person/company
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Japanese. Ni Hao is Hello. After that, I got nothin.
And also, WTF!?
I had a missed call from Romania today. No voicemail tho.
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Romania? Nice to see telemarketing is going global.
Not!
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Right? Also, it’s only four numbers.
???
I would think more people in Romania have phones…
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