"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> I got one of the Microsoft scam calls the other day. I did answer, told
> him that I know about his scam, and added several choice words too. I told
> him do not call here again &*%$## as he tried to get words in. Usually, if
> I do answer and someone is there, I just say I'm not interested, I'm on
> the do not call list, and please don't call again then hang up, but I hate
> these scammers. Funny as I'm writing this post there is a telemarketing
> call coming in from DES MOINES IA 515-248-7685. LOL

Those Microsoft calls are the worst. The first time I got one, I called my
brother about it. He hadn't left for work yet. He told me who to report
the guy to. So I did and I told him that I did. But to stall him and try
to look up the number he was calling from, my brother had me play dumb. I
pretended that I was trying to do what he said but couldn't figure out how
to do it. I kept the guy on the phone for at least an hour. And then after
I told him that I had reported him, he had the nerve to call me back and
twice! Those times I just ripped into him. Told him he was calling someone
in the land of Microsoft and that I knew people who worked there. Microsoft
just wouldn't do such a thing.

What really worries me though is that my mom might get such a call and I
have a feeling she would fall for it. Some distant relative got the bogus
call from the grandchild and they wired the scammer every dime that they
had. She was sticking up for the relative and saying that of course anyone
would have given all of their money in such a situation. There was no
talking sense to her.

She herself got such a call not long before this from a man saying he was
her favorite grandson. I think the only reason she didn't fall for that was
because her one and only grandson had literally just left her house and was
in fact getting into his truck in the driveway as the call came in. She
could look out on the window and see him. So she told the crook, "You're
not ____!" Giving him the name of her grandson. Then of course the scammer
called right back, using the name she had just given him. She hung up on
him.

Unfortunately it would seem that when people get senile, all sense of normal
reasoning goes out the window. They will reason things out, but the way
they do it only makes sense to them. Of course they are just as likely to
forget what they have said once they have reasoned it all out in their own
fashion.