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Home » blog » I just received the strangest cold call ever

I just received the strangest cold call ever

Published November 16, 2016 by lawsie Leave a Comment

My landline phone just rang, it was a ‘private caller’ (so number withheld) but I’m a curious sort of fellow so I picked it up anyway.  We have a call blocker, so we don’t get tons of spam calls.

The chap at the other end asked me if I could do him a quick favour.  ‘Sure’ said I, and he asked me to tell his son Raveen to revise, then passed the phone to his son.  Here’s roughly how the conversion went,

ME – So your dad tells me you need to revise, what are you studying?



RAVEEN – GCSE biology and science.

ME – Oh, neat.  How is it going?



RAVEEN – Not very well, I get ungraded in all my tests and works.

ME – Oh I see, what does the teacher tell you is the problem?

RAVEEN – Teacher says I’m a lazy shit.

ME – Well that’s not very friendly is it.

RAVEEN – No…

ME – Well I have no idea who your dad is, how he got my number, or why he thinks I should tell you to revise.  But I’ll be honest with you, I didn’t revise at school and didn’t do very well at all with my GCSEs.



RAVEEN (sounding uncomfortable) – Oh?

ME – I didn’t revise very much at all.  But I turned out okay.  It’s important to do your best at school but I guess school just isn’t for everyone.  It could be worth revising a but harder, but ultimately if you’re smart then you’ll probably be fine…

So that was odd.  I’m not sure I helped very much.  The whole time I was on the phone I was expecting there to be some sort of spammy or scamming angle but I just couldn’t find it.

Has anyone else had calls like this?

Last Updated on February 18, 2023

Filed Under: Consumer Info Tagged With: random

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