The Duplex by Glenn McCoy for November 07, 2019

My favorite scam-call recently was from “the government” telling me my “Social Security number had been suspended because of suspicious activity”. This is why I always let my answering machine screen my calls. (I could put the air-horn on my answering message, but I wouldn’t want to do that to the decent human-beings that occasionally call.)

A simple no would suffice.

Why does Eno’s phone have an antenna?

I once strung one of those callers along for 15 minutes. The “supervisor” wound up telling me to “go to hell!” I laughed and he hung up.

Enos is smarter than I thought. But he should keep the air horn closer.

Does Eno even own a computer?

It’s sitting right next to my phone (landline). I use it at least 5 times a day. (Despicable Me Minions FART BLASTER GUN With Lights & Sounds)

If I am in the mood I love to play with those jerks to waste there time. It has reduced the calls by ten fold. Especially when the scammers call trying to be the irs or social security. I just got one the other day soliciting for a local police fund that doesn’t exist. Hung up real quick when I started asking questions about it and telling the that I work for what ever fund they were trying to scam.

Ha ha, we hot the exact same call, they wanted to sell us the Windows Defender…. whitch is incluses for free…

That’s what I do. BLAAT

Why isn’t the air horn or whistle sitting there on top the phone. You gotta narrow window of opportunity to get them before they scurry back into their holes.

let em have it..

I actually have an air horn by my phone and have been known to use it…

A whistle works, too. (I learned a while back that these loud noises don’t hurt the phone equipment.)

Boy does he ever have the wrong number. I’m surprised Eno didn’t say, “Computer? What’s that?”.

I Googled the number of an incoming call, and the mini-description of the first result told me it was this cartoon’s scam so I answered the phone, “Thank you for calling Microsoft. We have been monitoring your computer and see that there is a trojan virus on it. Are you currently at your computer so I may assist you in getting rid of it?” There was five seconds of silence, and a woman with a foreign accent said, “No,” and hung up. Often these numbers are spoofed, but I thought I’d dial them back for fun, and the same woman answered so I said, “Ma’am, maybe you don’t understand. There is a trojan virus on your computer, and we need to get rid of it. Now please let me know when you’re at your computer.” Click Hangup. I called them (and got hung up on) three more times, getting louder and ruder about how we needed to fix her computer before they finally blocked me.

I’m always getting calls (well, voicemails) from “Windows Support” which I find hysterical since I don’t have Windows.

Tell Manish to vanish.

Thats funny. My ssa number was suspended too! I used foul language to end the call.My bad.