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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
LOL 
We don't get any phone scams, luckily. We do now have a very persistent lady from a PR company calling every couple of days. |
My parent's house had a landline phone number that differed just one number from the one of a local doctor. It seems some idiot spread OUR number among an entire family of non-Dutch people, instead of the doctor's. Very often we'd pick up the phone to be greeted thus:
In Dutch, including accent: "Aaloo, spuriek iek mat die praktoik fan doktor Doezands?"
In (proper) English: "Hi, do I speak with the practice of doctor Duizends?"
Our answer would invariably be: "No, sorry. His number starts with 41."
Sometimes we'd be called two or three times in a row by the same person, and they're always persons of the same family. We have tried to explain that they need to FIX THE NUMBER on their side, to no avail.
This has been going on for as long as I can remember; my entire life as I lived in that house, and also after I moved out. I can remember them calling for at least 25 years.
Last year it stopped. My father finally ditched his landline in favor of one mobile phone. Cheaper, easier to take along, and ONE place for ALL numbers.
Suddenly, that family is without a doctor.