[Cherie]

Originally Posted by jennyjuniper

Quite often elderly people give as good as they get. A few months ago we started getting scam calls from India I believe saying that they were a representitive of Microsoft and needed to check details on our computer. I knew it was a scam straight away and gave them a few choice words (most bleepable) and hung up. But one old gal in our town gave them the runaround. She pretended to go along with it, told them they would have to wait a few minutes as her computer was old and took time to get started. Then she went off and had a cuppa and read a book for a couple of hours before finally hanging up.
The only thing they got from her was a hefty phone bill.

Yes that fine, but there are alot of people young and not so young who are susceptible to the hard sell.

I have a few DDs set up for charities, in the past I used to donate to the bigger charities, they obviously sell details as on as I started getting cold called by other "bigger charities" once I joined, within two months of signing up I had a phone call asking me to donate a larger amount, eh if I was able or willing to donate a larger amount I would have done it at sign up two months previously, the guy at the other end of the phone was very persuasive and in the end I had to hang up to get rid of him, some people would be unable to do that as they would find it rude and might be talked into donating larger amounts, I donate to local charities now, as I don't agree with the practices of some of the bigger charities and their hard selling tactics, and yes some people will be able to handle the calls with ease but for others particularly more vulnerable people it might not be so easy.