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Nah I aint givin this fucker my bank account. I do wanna troll the shit out of em but idk how to go about it other than just wasting his time by yapping about random shit
Oh, ok.
I remember when I was 17, my mom would hand me the phone whenever telemarketers would call.
I'd waste their time as a hobby. Sometimes I'd say my mom was on vacation in Jamaca, eating lots of blue flavored snow cones. Other times I'd say she was in the shower.
Either way, I'd start a counter to see how long they'd stay on the phone with me. My record was 2 hours 26 minutes. And my mom actually ended it. She came up and asked who I was talking to. I held up the hand signal for telemarketer.
She was in one of her pissy moods, so she grabbed the phone out of my hand, and screamed into the phone "THIS IS HIS MOM! WE DON'T WANT ANY!!!" and hung up.
To this day, I still believe I could have hit the 5 hour mark if she had just let me.
My reasoning was if they're talking to me, they AREN'T talking to someone who could be scammed.
What's the hand signal for telemarketer?
Ok, don't do a thumbs up. But also don't do a thumbs down either. Do one kind of halfway between up and down, where it's kind of pointing to the side.
We innitially wanted something where your fingers make the shape of a T, but as it turns out, it is really really hard to move your fingers into the shape of a T. Try it. It's akward, and painful, and it kinda sorta can be done....but also we hate it, so we decided on the thumb to the side thing. Easy to do, easy to read once you see it. That was the important part.
I feel like🖕would've worked fine (assuming you don't otherwise make rude gestures at your mom).
If Family Fued had the question "Name 10 ways to get a smack in tbe back of the head from your mom", I think "giving her the finger" might actually be the top answer.
All your family would hear it, and say "Good answer, good answer!" And it's absolutely on the board. Steve Harvey would then make an outragious claim that your mom is whoopin your ass after that.
It's like.....Jeez, Steve! Calm down! It's 1 slap! If your mom is realing for the cane, I think you might have just been raised in a toxic home. Which for him is absolutely true.
Open a new banking account. . Deposit the check digitally, block the scammer, deposit into the new empty account. Let it sit for a few months. If the money is still there. You have won.
Most likely the check will will be fraudulent and revoked within 1 or 2 weeks.
Tell them they're so fun, you want to pay them to be your penpal, and you'll send them a picture of $50