We are receiving an increasing number of spam phone calls at the business. The telephone rings, you answer it and a recorded message starts telling you about business credit opportunities, or available loans, or Credit Card processing. You have to wait for the entire message to play out before being given an option to be on their do not call list. For a while we would enter the number indicating an interest in the service and then tell the person answering to take us off their call list. This wasted some of their time for wasting ours, but not nearly enough to be satisfying Lately, we have started a pizza strategy. When the live person picks up we either try to order a pizza as if we have reached a pizza parlor we were calling, or we try to take their order for a pizza. Today, when we were put through to an answering machine we left a two minute rant about pizza.
Doing this is oddly satisfying. With any luck we tie them up for a few minutes and then mess up their concentration by making them think about lunch or dinner.
You know this is going to backfire on us when we get a recorded message from a real pizza delivery service. Maybe they will call around lunchtime
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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