Snowed under by Gentle reminders

Your hunger for cold caller stories is not satisfied.
“I used to work in IT operations for a vehicle contract hire company and we’d be plagued by cold callers, to the point that we invented an employee called Marmaduke Gentle, giving him an email address and voicemail,” says Rob Bowra.
“Over the following 12 months Marmaduke received mountains of post, emails and countless voicemail messages with people keen to help him with quotes.”
Sadly the imaginary Marmaduke was forced to resign when a persistent salesman tried to reach him through the switchboard.
Someone who pleads to be anonymous recommends cruelty: “I ask them to take a good look at their life and their career prospects,” he says. “I tell them that if their employer is so unethical or incompetent as to ignore the corporate Telephone Preference Service, then I am really worried about their employment future.”
And Terry Lean advises this tactic for financial services calls: “There are few things I look forward to more than a discussion with a telephone cold caller,” he says, which worries us, but when offered something over the phone, he asks: “Could you tell me my account number please?”
When the caller says: “I’m sorry – we don’t know who you are. We need you to confirm that you are Mr X by you telling us some details,” he says: “I’m sorry I can’t do that until I’ve established your identity”, and we start again.
“My record for prolonging the conversation is 20 minutes,” he says.