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    Quote Originally Posted by XavierOnassis View Post
    Then a voice calls me by my first name and asks how I am...
    I never give a direct answer to this (obviously insincere) question.

    I simply reply, "What is the purpose of your call?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by pjohns View Post
    Technically, yes.

    But only Medicare Part A. (And this is precisely what I told the phone solicitor.)
    Part A is MEDICARE.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pjohns View Post
    Technically, yes.

    But only Medicare Part A. (And this is precisely what I told the phone solicitor.)
    I wouldn't even be sharing that, or the year you were born. Also avoid using the word 'yes'. You would be (or maybe not) surprised on how many different ways there are to scam you.

    I don't usually answer unknown phone numbers, but if I do, and it's a telemarketer, I will sometimes interrupt them and say 'you are on a recorded line. I am legally required to tell you that." My ratio of hang ups is amusing.
    "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    Occasionally I flip the game on the solicitors

    I'll answer like a kid and say "hewwo mommy not home" 2-3 times lmao
    Are you familiar with Tom Mabe? He put out a number of albums of actual telemarketer calls that he received, and the mind games he played on the telemarketers. They range from the just goofy to the borderline cruel - like the time he convinced a guy selling pre-paid burial plans that he was holding a gun and about to commit suicide. You can find a lot of them on YouTube.
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    I have seen so many people, mostly the elderly, ripped off by "tele-marketers. It's really sad.

    I don't answer the phone if the number is not known to me. And if one slips by and I answer, I never give any personal information over the phone. I always tell them to send me a letter and I will consider answering the questions. I usually get hung up on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Are you familiar with Tom Mabe? He put out a number of albums of actual telemarketer calls that he received, and the mind games he played on the telemarketers. They range from the just goofy to the borderline cruel - like the time he convinced a guy selling pre-paid burial plans that he was holding a gun and about to commit suicide. You can find a lot of them on YouTube.
    Thanks, I will take a look. I enjoy humor of many flavors.

    "Cruel" and the word "humor" rarely dine together so the shock factor is the hook that keeps them listening, imo

    It's like my joke asking what you get in Arkansas for running over a family of five at a crosswalk.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    Thanks, I will take a look. I enjoy humor of many flavors.

    "Cruel" and the word "humor" rarely dine together so the shock factor is the hook that keeps them listening, imo

    It's like my joke asking what you get in Arkansas for running over a family of five at a crosswalk.

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    Another favorite Mabe call was when he was called by somebody collecting for a police charity, and he convinced the guy that he'd been drinking with his 12-year-old son and was giving the kid the keys to the car so he could go get more liquor.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    Part A is MEDICARE.
    It is.

    But it is entirely superfluous.

    Medicare Part A pays toward hospitalization.

    And my BC/BS already pays 100 percent of that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pjohns View Post
    It is.

    But it is entirely superfluous.

    Medicare Part A pays toward hospitalization.

    And my BC/BS already pays 100 percent of that.
    It covers more than just hospitalization.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Section31 View Post
    I have seen so many people, mostly the elderly, ripped off by "tele-marketers. It's really sad.
    I am 75 years of age--not exactly a spring chicken--but I have no fear of being "ripped off" by telemarketers (or anyone else, for that matter).

    I am extremely cynical!

    (If I were to purchase a new car--and I probably would not, as I believe in purchasing a year-old car, and letting someone else take the hit on depreciation--I would actually feel sorry for the salesperson, regardless of how long he or she had been in the business.)

    Quote Originally Posted by Section31 View Post
    I always tell [telemarketers] to send me a letter and I will consider answering the questions.
    Excellent response!

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