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Subject: Re: "Press 9" Telephone Scam? Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:58:30 -0000


"Avery" wrote in message
news:fse6q7$5oo$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
>
>>>
>>> It's a shame you do that. Most people do, which is how these people find
>>> who is apparently a mark and who is not.
>>> If you were to stay on the line, tedious though it is, follow their
>>> procedures and talk effusively with their operator when you get through,
>>> keep her on line for a while before ultimately telling her in a very,
>>> very loud voice to sod off, they will resent your wasting their time far
>>> more than you will resent their wasting yours. And they are paying.
>>
>> I have better things to do with my time; usually it is running a
>> business..
>>
>> Colin Bignell
>
> Cripes, that busy!

I'm two years into a new business venture, so 12 hour days are not unusual
and, with six telephone lines, I frequently get several recorded message
calls in a day.

Colin Bignell