urlurl, next time mention your Amiga is down so your elderly wife can't check on something, or that you gave the Tandy to your grandson to play, I like your Commodore 64 line LMAO, and they do target senior citizens, normally they get their ph # from owning property in public records, but sometimes they call people like you and I at random ...oh... and also tell him to be patient w/you since the dial-up connection AOL gives you is a ripoff ... sometimes I enjoy playing games w/them, they must be calling thru a number located out of the country since telemarketing is now regulated even if when it is a legit deal, call screening, number blocking, etc also helps
Some of these schemes are clever, after the FCC curtailed much of this and developed a do-not-call registry for mainstream telemarketing, they've become more astute, they may have the actual call originate in Canada for ex, even overseas, but the person on the phone is actually in the US, not hard to do, and they engage in day-to-day chit chat to loosen you up, once a guy would tell me "God bless you and your family" a lot during the same call, he'd ask me if I was employed and he'd reply w/that quip if I said yes, and even if I had said I wasn't he'd still find a way to make it fit
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