I have a good story too, but not as good as this one and not quite as.. illegal. I got a call at the office yesterday and the lady immediately said "This is AT&T and we want our phone numbers back". I had no idea what she was talking about, so I kept on the line asking her what she meant. My assumption was something had gone wrong with paperwork and they were trying to port my number back to AT&T for somebody's use. (That would be bad.)
Finally I realized it was the worst sales pitch I had ever heard--they wanted me as a customer.
So I just hung up.
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From: owner-nolug@stoney.kellynet.org [mailto:owner-nolug@stoney.kellynet.org] On Behalf Of Ron Johnson
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 6:36 PM
To: ML NOLUG
Subject: [Nolug] Someone just called my home-office phone number...
claiming to be from Microsoft technical support, saying that my PC
is spreading viruses. Wanted me to go to a website and install some
software so that he (dare I mention that he had a strong Indian
accent and there were background noises indicating that he was in a
call center) could "show me the viruses".
I humored him for a bit, then told him he was full of sh*t then hung up.
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