When it was a telemarketer, we’d say “just a moment” and then sit the phone in front of the TV speaker. You’d hear little buzzy “hello? hello?” punctuating Jerry and George’s coffee shop banter. It was funny. Other times my friends would make sex noises in the background. Also funny.
Another fun one was answering the phone with a question like “is Becky there?” This would always throw them off. Can’t do any of this nowadays because now they just note that your number is an active one and sell it to data brokers (which is why I will never have “read receipts” activated on my phone)
I the early days of the computer phone scammers (the ones that pretend to be from Microsoft and try to get your IP address or whatever) my friend’s Mum would say “Hold on, I’ll turn on the computer” and then put the phone down, go do something, and if they were still there later she’d say “Almost there, it’s very slow.” and repeat until she got bored and then tell them she didn’t have a computer. One time she had a guy on for almost an hour apparently lol.
When it was a telemarketer, we’d say “just a moment” and then sit the phone in front of the TV speaker. You’d hear little buzzy “hello? hello?” punctuating Jerry and George’s coffee shop banter. It was funny. Other times my friends would make sex noises in the background. Also funny.
Another fun one was answering the phone with a question like “is Becky there?” This would always throw them off. Can’t do any of this nowadays because now they just note that your number is an active one and sell it to data brokers (which is why I will never have “read receipts” activated on my phone)
I the early days of the computer phone scammers (the ones that pretend to be from Microsoft and try to get your IP address or whatever) my friend’s Mum would say “Hold on, I’ll turn on the computer” and then put the phone down, go do something, and if they were still there later she’d say “Almost there, it’s very slow.” and repeat until she got bored and then tell them she didn’t have a computer. One time she had a guy on for almost an hour apparently lol.