Scams have become the norm of our culture today. If it weren’t for Alexander Graham Bell, we wouldn’t have all of these scams today. Thanks Alex.
These scams go from car warranties to Medicare benefits, and they’re probably just getting started.
The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage gets very agitated when these calls come. They show up on our phone as a scam. As soon as it shows up on our phone, she yells, “That’s a scam. Don’t you dare answer it?”
By the time I heard what she said, I had already answered the phone. So, I like to take advantage of these scam calls. After all, it’s my phone, I pay the bill, so it should also be my choice.
For example, when they asked me in the beginning how I was, I said, “Okey-Dokey.” I don’t know what this means, but they hang up immediately as soon as some hear that phrase. When it first happened, I couldn’t have been happier.
So, “Okey-Dokey” is part of my scam to those scammers.
Then when some Medicare scam comes through, one thing they ask is how old I am. So one time I said, “I feel like I’m 87.” They said that I don’t qualify and hung up immediately.
I didn’t say I was 87, just that I feel 87. So now I have another response to these scammers.
I am building up of repertoire of responses to these scammers. I had to sit down and think a little bit in the beginning and ask…
