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[pennyJo1960]

Sorry to hear about the fall, @pennyJo1960. Unfortunately you will be sorer tomorrow than you are today.

We have been getting weird phone calls also. Somebody looking for an Amish woman....ummmm Amish don't have cell phones around us. Sounded like an Amish man calling. We tell them no, there is no one by that name here you have a wrong number. They hang up. 5 minutes later another call by another phone number same guy looking for the same Amish woman. What? You didn't get her on one phone so you call the same wrong number on another phone thinking you are suddenly going to get her? This happened a few times a day for about 5 days. Always different numbers and sometimes different people. Once asked if we knew a woman with a Hispanic name who used to have our number before us (and was a bit of a deadbeat) or if we had a certain credit card number. Yes, we knew that name but no we don't have that credit card. Told them she had the number before us so please stop calling here. Had a few days without calls then got another one today only we have blocked all the numbers that we have got to date.

Don't know what their game is but nope, we weren't born yesterday either.

Only one scam call so far.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am fine as frogs hair.
No constant pain enough gone thank heavens.
Need to take myself out get the last two pups in.

 

[ronott1]

Sorry to hear about the fall, @pennyJo1960. Unfortunately you will be sorer tomorrow than you are today.

We have been getting weird phone calls also. Somebody looking for an Amish woman....ummmm Amish don't have cell phones around us. Sounded like an Amish man calling. We tell them no, there is no one by that name here you have a wrong number. They hang up. 5 minutes later another call by another phone number same guy looking for the same Amish woman. What? You didn't get her on one phone so you call the same wrong number on another phone thinking you are suddenly going to get her? This happened a few times a day for about 5 days. Always different numbers and sometimes different people. Once asked if we knew a woman with a Hispanic name who used to have our number before us (and was a bit of a deadbeat) or if we had a certain credit card number. Yes, we knew that name but no we don't have that credit card. Told them she had the number before us so please stop calling here. Had a few days without calls then got another one today only we have blocked all the numbers that we have got to date.

Don't know what their game is but nope, we weren't born yesterday either.

T mobile has an app I use to block spam numbers that call me

 

[microchick]

We have Verizon. It's about the only thing that works out in the boonies where we live. It's mainly a dead zone and the only way we can even get the signal we do is thanks to a signal booster we bought. Does the app work on any other servers?

 

[microchick]

Funny you should ask that, not too long ago my husband hollered at me from the den and told me to " go tell those kids to get out of our yard"( he had just gotten out of the shower and only had his bathrobe on at the time so I guess he thought him running out the front door towards a couple of children was not the best idea).... so, yes, I have in fact yelled at somebody to get off my lawn.. but it was only because I was following orders

Oh you've got to love the scammers.. sad part is that people do fall for it, and even if it's only one in a thousand it's enough to keep them dialing numbers until they hit that one. When I'm bored I like to engage them in conversation that makes it seem like I'm falling for their scam, I figure the more of their time I can waste talking to me the less time they have to scam someone else that might be the one that would fall for it

I had an elderly neighbor who used to do that. He would get somebody calling him selling him windows and he would egg them on, acting like he was interested and asked questions about their product. And 'OH! You sell siding too, tell me more!' He said he could just hear the excitement mounting in their voices until he asked them if he could pay for new windows and siding using his Public Aid check. He would be laughing his head off telling saying he never heard anybody hang up so fast in his life as those people did at that moment.

Sometimes life is too short not to have fun with these people.