These fools have been calling for the last 10 days. I don't think they will call again. The 5th time they called, I answered the phone and played along like I was really excited to hear from them. The woman at the other end said, "Yes, that's right, ma'am. We are Spark. We are a natural gas supplier to PG&E. So although you will keep getting your bill from PG&E, and you should call PG&E in case of emergency, and PG&E will continue to read your gas meter, for $5.00 a month Spark will supply your natural gas and you will see your PG&E gas bill go down by 30%." I said. "Great! I'm so excited! Are you ready for my credit card number?" And she said "No, not yet. I need to verify if your name on your billing statement for PG&E is the same as it will be for your billing statement for SPARK." I said, "Actually, No..." She seemed flummoxed. That was a part of the script she didn't know, so she decided to skip it. "Okay, then, we're ready for your credit card, ma'am," she said. That was when I acted like I was confused. "Who is this again? Oh, yeah, I heard about you. You're that phone scam. That's why I've kept you on the phone this long. You're going to be prosecuted....Some day you're going to be sorry you did this because bad karma comes around, you know. Do you think your mother would be proud of you for what you're doing?" And she said, "It's just a JOB." And I said, "Some day you're going to get hit by a car and killed because of what you're doing. It's a very evil thing." And she said "That's no way to talk." And I said, "Yeah, well, when you do [***] things like that to people, that's what you get."
These fools have been calling for the last 10 days. I don't think they will call again. The 5th time they called, I answered the phone and played along like I was really excited to hear from them. The woman at the other end said, "Yes, that's right, ma'am. We are Spark. We are a natural gas supplier to PG&E. So although you will keep getting your bill from PG&E, and you should call PG&E in case of emergency, and PG&E will continue to read your gas meter, for $5.00 a month Spark will supply your natural gas and you will see your PG&E gas bill go down by 30%." I said. "Great! I'm so excited! Are you ready for my credit card number?" And she said "No, not yet. I need to verify if your name on your billing statement for PG&E is the same as it will be for your billing statement for SPARK." I said, "Actually, No..." She seemed flummoxed. That was a part of the script she didn't know, so she decided to skip it. "Okay, then, we're ready for your credit card, ma'am," she said. That was when I acted like I was confused. "Who is this again? Oh, yeah, I heard about you. You're that phone scam. That's why I've kept you on the phone this long. You're going to be prosecuted....Some day you're going to be sorry you did this because bad karma comes around, you know. Do you think your mother would be proud of you for what you're doing?" And she said, "It's just a JOB." And I said, "Some day you're going to get hit by a car and killed because of what you're doing. It's a very evil thing." And she said "That's no way to talk." And I said, "Yeah, well, when you do [***] things like that to people, that's what you get."
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