So I'm busy working a problem and a 'broker' calls me: We've got this great stock, well undervalued with a 10% dividend. Invest $3,800 and you'll make three times that . . . If you remember the Supranos stock fraud office, it instantly recalled the mob "pump and dump" scam. So I told him, Sorry but I've just gotten a bill for $1,500 for my wife's medical condition. We're all tapped out. "Broker", No problem, invest in Webistics and you'll easily make the $1,500. Thanks but I'll have to pass. <click> A broker 'cold calls' me about some great stock and I'm supposed to jump on it because he has my phone number? I don't think so! I would rather take $1,500 to a casino, craps table. At least then I'll be able to get true odds. Bob Wilson
I hope she's feeling better, Bob. You should have strung him along for a while and let him think he was going to land a live one. I used to get cold called about getting The Tennessian (Nashville area newspaper) simply because I have a 931-xxx-xxxx cell number. I don't live anywhere close to their delivery area. After about six months of getting bi-weekly suppertime calls and insisting that they remove me from their list, I decided to get a little more proactive. I began to say "Sure! I'd love to sign up for a year!! ...er....but I might be outside your delivery area." Sometimes I'd give them the address to a Nashville jail (5113 Harding Place, Nashville, TN 37211) other times I'd give them my actual address. Credit card info? I can't get one of those for another few years because of the bankruptcy. Are you guys hiring? The Tennessian hasn't called me for well over a year.
When I feel like even picking up these cold callers, I ask them why they work for a criminal enterprise. Why don't they go get a real job, a legal one. Because my number is on the federal Do Not Call List, it is illegal for them to cold call me at all. The penalty is $500 per call, please send me that $500 right now. They always hang up before I can get through even this much spiel.
