He got his own back on the scammer (stock) (Image: Getty)
A man has been appluded for playing a at their own game after they tried to clear his bank account. He shared how he started receiving numerous scam calls one day – and after his phone lit up with a ‘live number’ he decided to take revenge.
Taking to , he said: “So I get a lot of phone calls like everyone else. But this guy called me twice in a row so I called him back because it’s my work phone.
“[He] tried to tell me that I won the ‘Publishing (sp) Clearinghouse’. I told him I would split the $5million with him if he could just tell me my name….which I told him when he answered. He still got it wrong and I laughed at him. We cussed each other out for a few seconds before he hung up on me.”
But he was just getting warmed up as he went on to call him back more than 100 times over the next hour. The scammer would pick up his phone every so often, begging him to stop phoning, but he ignored his pleas and continued regardless.
He added: “He would answer every so often and cuss me out and threaten me before hanging up. I stopped for now but I saved his number in my phone.
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“I will be calling him periodically just to harass him. And before anyone says I am wasting my time, this is something I actually get a lot of enjoyment out of. It’s free entertainment as far as I’m concerned.”
Sharing their own tactics to get back at scam artists, one user said: “Better? Put an add on Craigslist advertising a contest (or, better yet, auditions) for the next star [wars] project. Have people call this guy’s number and to speak in Shyriiwook – the language Wookies speak – and if no one picks up, leave a voicemail. I may or may not have done this to someone I didn’t like. I know they got calls.”
Another user added: “A friend called me in the middle of the night pretending to be police and told me I’m in trouble. As payback I put his car in a newspaper for selling second hand stuff, for cheap. This was when things were just starting to go online. The website for the paper got updated sometime during the early morning, I didn’t know this. He started getting calls while he was still asleep.
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“We commuted together and he asked me to stop at a 24 hour garage so he could buy the paper. He came out fuming with the paper in hand, rambling about who, how, why… would do this to him.” A third user said: “Sign him up for sales calls from auto dealers. They sell their phone list to spam callers.
“Create an email account for him (for verification purposes) and sign him up to the phone list of a certain orange skinned politician. The calls will never stop even if he demands removal from the list. Sign him up for missionary phone calls from small churches to ‘Discuss his personal relationship with Jesus.’ Some will even discuss volunteer opportunities overseas.
“Sign him up for inspirational text messaging. Sign him up for wake up calls at all hours of the day and night. Lots of websites do this for free as a way of building a list of live phone numbers to sell to call centers.”