Sunday, October 24, 2004

anti-telemarketing EGBG counterscript

Just the other day, a friend of mine was rung at home and was informed that he's been selected in a draw for the prize of so many hundreds of pounds of free home improvements (mainly based around windows). He reacted very oddly: he expressed joy; told the telemarketer that "nothing like this has ever happened to me before" and said that he must go and tell his next-door neighbour.

He put the handset down and went off to do something else for a few minutes. Ten minutes later, the telemarketer was still on the line. It took her a further ten minutes to realise that this was a windup.

Whilst not quite in the same genre of humour, this script is perhaps worth trying out once or twice.

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