My response is usually "hello". If I got such a call and knew I was being called by a scamming computer I'd probably say in my best Jimmy Carl Black as Lonesome Cowboy Burt imitation "speakin' Atcha! What can I do you fer?"
Given the land line is the folk's if I answered that I'd probably say "they are not available presently I can take a message after the pen clicks...Click".
One thing that drives me up a wall is some of the family cell phones including mine are still on our old numbers from when we got the phones back when we lived in moron-land Florida. I've long lost count of the number of wrong numbers from that area code that have dialed me....Sometimes repeatedly. You know you live among dummies when a good percentage can't dial a phone or give/take a number correctly.
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Originally Posted by zeno
Back 12 yrs ago I kept getting calls for Franklin so&so.
Seems my new # was a reissue & this cat owed them $$$.
Tried to tell them I wasnt him but no joy.
Finally they called & I told them I knew him from a bar in Greenville.
Offered to collect the debt for 33% , didnt work.
Told them if it was enuf $$ I would break his f'n legs & slam his
right hand in a car door.
The calls stopped.
73 Zeno 
LFOD ! |
My folks had similar happen some years back, mom handled it in a more proper, but much less amusing way.