So the latest totally-amazing-excellent form of luring me into a new to credit card comes via my phone. Nothing new there, tele-marketers have been doing that for years. The thing that I found extra annoying is the latest version of their rotten tactics.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been receiving phone calls on my cell and home phone along with a text message… simultaneously! That’s right, the same number comes up on my cell, home phone and by text from the same fake name. One in Clarksville, Tennessee (931-801-9685 no information) and Ogden, Utah (801-645-2471 registered to Conlin Enterprises Corporation).

The great thing is you have a chance to talk with someone if you just press 1 on your phone… or so they say. My attempts to speak with a “customer service representative” were met with someone who clearly hasn’t grasped the English language, a bit of silence and a hang up.

I can’t say I’m amazed that some scam company has come up with a new way to annoy people. Do they really think I’m going to buy anything from them? Apparently, enough people have bought into their schemes or they would develop a new strategy.

I know people need to work, but you have to think about what a total crap job that is. I guess when you’re on the other end of a phone and no one can see you, it’s easier to be a part of one of the lowliest, degenerate jobs in the world.

I wonder if these are some of those amazing jobs the Government’s Stimulus Package got us…