Ding Dong, Portugal Calling

i 'nly answer 'em by accident 's i've gotten to where's if'n i don't know the number 't aint happenin'. out'n the sun i cannot see who'd be callin'... the calls come from all o'er, diff'rent area codes'n the like show'n my phone. when such goes to voicemail though, 'tis 'lways the same # showin' there. dependin' 'pon my mood, i'll string 'em 'long. figure that way they aint botherin' nobody else durin' that time. the funniest? perhaps the 2 wk cruise i'd won 'n they needed $2500 'n target gift cards fer the taxes due. kept that'un'n the phone a good 45 minutes...

I've never gotten a call with the phone number from a foreign country. Though I've gotten those scam calls that were obviously foreign. I don't string them along. I slam the phone in their ear.

This is the craziest thing I have heard in a while

I had a call from India telling me they were ringing from Microsoft and I had a virus on my computer. I strung them along for three days asking them to call me back at a certain time which they did. Unfortunately the next day he rang two hours earlier than I had said and I acted very cross with him. He rang back 2 hours later very apologetic. I strung him along making out I was a complete idiot with computers saying oh blimey my computer has crashed. Now the screen has gone blue etc etc. In the end I told him do you seriously think I would give you access to my computer. I have an MA in Computer technology but on a brighter note I have stopped you fleecing someone who is not so savvy. He called me something quite rude and I laughed my head off and put the phone down!

I do get some crazy calls I do not know where they come from. Most of the time; I do not answer them.

Luckily I do not get calls from other Countries, but a lot from people who want to sell me something!! And when you tell them you do not want it, they do not take no for a answer!! Aai then my rude side come out!! Luckily our phones can blacklist those numbers!

I have also gotten lots of them. a lot of times I think someone gives out the wrong number and it just happens to be mine or the caller has looked at or written down a number making a mistake with one of the digits etc. My strangest one is probably the scariest. yrs. ago, I had broken up with my hubby, he had moved out and moved in with another woman he was cheating with. It was 3 in the morning and just myself and 11 yrs old was in the house. and he was asleep. The guy called and I did not recognize his voice. He insisted that I was Irene and he was going to come over and do some nasty things to me. I told him I wasn't that lady and he said he was on his way. I got scared and hung up. I did not sleep for nights after that. My older son finally came over and spent a few nights till I could get over it.

I have gotten two recently from foreign countries, needless to say, I didn't answer so I don't know what bill of goods they were trying to sell me

May be they simply called a wrong number, this happens.

Are you sure it was from Portugal? Our phone numbers aren't like that one.

That sounds weird. I did not have strange calls.