Chinese dating scam

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

And it's not THAT different from the "your car's about to go out of warranty!"

I get these phone calls (or stuff about Medicare benefits) at least twice a week, despite not having a car or being on Medicare. I say everything short of something that could potentially get me in legal trouble. On occasion I'll tell them I represent a law firm and am recording the phonecall for investigation/lawsuit, and when I'm feeling less patient I'll straight up shout at them and tell them to blacklist my f#cking number - occasionally including an empty legal threat as well.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

And it's not THAT different from the "your car's about to go out of warranty!"

I get these phone calls (or stuff about Medicare benefits) at least twice a week, despite not having a car or being on Medicare. I say everything short of something that could potentially get me in legal trouble. On occasion I'll tell them I represent a law firm and am recording the phonecall for investigation/lawsuit, and when I'm feeling less patient I'll straight up shout at them and tell them to blacklist my f#cking number - occasionally including an empty legal threat as well.

In my experience, the more someone answers the phone to bogus calls, the more bogus calls they get.  Stop answering the phone when unrecognized calls come in.  If it's a real call and it's important, they'll leave a message.

That's probably a good idea because all these numbers have a Virginia area code (of course), so I feel compelled to answer regardless.

What's really bizarre is I get the same person almost every time. Despite the previous threats and literal screaming at my phone which resulted in her hanging up, she acts as if we never interacted before and reads her script while I talk over her.