Relay Calls

rorschach · July 11, 2009

I received a call yesterday from a relay service (TTY). If you have ever had one of these calls you know it takes forever. Well, after going back and forth with the operator in between us for about 25 minutes, the caller relays to me he would like to have his two cars tinted but he will have to tow his cars into the shop. If I could only run his credit card for $10,000 and then western union some money over to the tow company....... AAAGGGHHHH. I have had these kind of scams in emails before, but never TTY! If I get my hands on these bloody bastards......... :bogabut:

July 11, 2009

HA! I just got one of these calls today. 1 Escalade and 4 Accords. They wanted red tint on them. I gave them an off the wall quote. The "person" said that that was fine and they were gonna be towed to my shop and could they pay with credit card over the phone. I said the person must be present to pay with a card. Then they tell me that they cant come out because they are in a wheelchair. I said thats fine, my shop is handicap accesable. I new something was funny when they first called. I have been on many relay calls and this one didnt sound right. Eff em! :bogabut:

I dont have caller ID but if one of you guys do and you get a number you should report it to the police. It a scam and its againt the law.

Good luck!

Roach · July 11, 2009

Well, after going back and forth with the operator in between us for about 25 minutes,

Wow... what a huge waste of your time. I would have been flipping mad!!

July 12, 2009

HA! I just got one of these calls today. 1 Escalade and 4 Accords. They wanted red tint on them. I gave them an off the wall quote. The "person" said that that was fine and they were gonna be towed to my shop and could they pay with credit card over the phone. I said the person must be present to pay with a card. Then they tell me that they cant come out because they are in a wheelchair. I said thats fine, my shop is handicap accesable. I new something was funny when they first called. I have been on many relay calls and this one didnt sound right. Eff em!
I dont have caller ID but if one of you guys do and you get a number you should report it to the police. It a scam and its againt the law.

Good luck!

if I ever got a relay call, I would hang up on them. Its not worth 30 minutes of my time for a possible sale, that is most likely a scam.

July 12, 2009

I have had a few customers that are deaf. We usually end up using text messages instead of the relay call. I guess in the "perfect" world everyone can talk. :cool :ninja

rorschach · July 12, 2009

HA! I just got one of these calls today. 1 Escalade and 4 Accords. They wanted red tint on them. I gave them an off the wall quote. The "person" said that that was fine and they were gonna be towed to my shop and could they pay with credit card over the phone. I said the person must be present to pay with a card. Then they tell me that they cant come out because they are in a wheelchair. I said thats fine, my shop is handicap accesable. I new something was funny when they first called. I have been on many relay calls and this one didnt sound right. Eff em!
I dont have caller ID but if one of you guys do and you get a number you should report it to the police. It a scam and its againt the law.

Good luck!

if I ever got a relay call, I would hang up on them. Its not worth 30 minutes of my time for a possible sale, that is most likely a scam.

I have gotten relay calls before that were completely legitimate. Hang up on them if you want, that way I will get the money!

The call I got was from 1 (866) 394-4493, which is the TTY #. I called it back and it said that the call I received was from a TTY customer but their number was blocked or not available.

Sometimes its hard to tell a scam call from a legit one right away, there are some weird people out there!

July 13, 2009

HA! I just got one of these calls today. 1 Escalade and 4 Accords. They wanted red tint on them. I gave them an off the wall quote. The "person" said that that was fine and they were gonna be towed to my shop and could they pay with credit card over the phone. I said the person must be present to pay with a card. Then they tell me that they cant come out because they are in a wheelchair. I said thats fine, my shop is handicap accesable. I new something was funny when they first called. I have been on many relay calls and this one didnt sound right. Eff em!
I dont have caller ID but if one of you guys do and you get a number you should report it to the police. It a scam and its againt the law.

Good luck!

if I ever got a relay call, I would hang up on them. Its not worth 30 minutes of my time for a possible sale, that is most likely a scam.

I have gotten relay calls before that were completely legitimate. Hang up on them if you want, that way I will get the money!

The call I got was from 1 (866) 394-4493, which is the TTY #. I called it back and it said that the call I received was from a TTY customer but their number was blocked or not available.

Sometimes its hard to tell a scam call from a legit one right away, there are some weird people out there!

Ive never had one :ninja

July 18, 2009

Ha. They called again. This time I reported it to the relay operator. They say they will ban there IP address. :beer

alberts316 · July 21, 2009

I received a call yesterday from a relay service (TTY). If you have ever had one of these calls you know it takes forever. Well, after going back and forth with the operator in between us for about 25 minutes, the caller relays to me he would like to have his two cars tinted but he will have to tow his cars into the shop. If I could only run his credit card for $10,000 and then western union some money over to the tow company....... AAAGGGHHHH. I have had these kind of scams in emails before, but never TTY! If I get my hands on these bloody bastards.........

We had this exact same call a week ago. I couldn't beleive it, what a waste of time, we just hung up.

flat rock stan · July 22, 2009

HA! I just got one of these calls today. 1 Escalade and 4 Accords. They wanted red tint on them. I gave them an off the wall quote. The "person" said that that was fine and they were gonna be towed to my shop and could they pay with credit card over the phone. I said the person must be present to pay with a card. Then they tell me that they cant come out because they are in a wheelchair. I said thats fine, my shop is handicap accesable. I new something was funny when they first called. I have been on many relay calls and this one didnt sound right. Eff em!
I dont have caller ID but if one of you guys do and you get a number you should report it to the police. It a scam and its againt the law.

Good luck!

they must have came across more cadys :lol I just spent a hour for 4 accords and 3 Escalades and tried to get as much info as passable (they wanted me to wire 500 bucks for the towing company to bring um) to report to the police. Relay operator did not want to hear about it and I thought they might have been in on it. Police are on the way to take a report. guess I will see it anything happens. :lol I hung up like 3 times and they kept calling back :lol