That saying: “If you can’t beat them, join them” can be interpreted in different ways.

In this case, a man decided to prank annoying telemarketers and get a laugh (or thirty) from them instead of stressing out when they kept calling asking him to sell his house.

Let’s see how he did it.

Hi do you own the property at…

I know we all hate telemarketers but these “can I buy your house” folks push me to a new level of annoyed.

They used to give out a fake company name and say ‘Home Builders Inc.’ or something.

I ended up googling it and got in contact with the actual owner of that company, I believe he was out of MN.

He told me that there’s a company in Egypt of all places, that sells sales leads to American companies slipping by the legality of combing through public records for personal information.

Wow.

He told me to get at the American companies, I’d need to pretend to be interested in selling my house and wait for the call from the US-based company and confront them.

So that’s what I did.

After giving some vague info that was incorrect to the Egyptian caller I did eventually get matched and called from someone in northern Ohio.

When I explained I knew what he was doing and that it was illegal, he eventually hung up on me and blocked me.

Imagine the level of entitlement of this person.

I called from a few different numbers until he disconnected his line.

Small win but not the story I came to tell.

The calls haven’t stopped so trolling is my new favorite thing.

I constantly beat them to the punch and ask them to buy their house, ask them how Egypt is or what the pyramids are like.

I’ve tried to order pizza, put them on hold to see how long they’d last, or just change the subject completely.

That sounds like fun. He is making the most of this annoying situation.

My biggest win was when they asked “do you have any other properties to sell?”

I said: “In fact, I do”.

1600 Pennsylvania avenue, District of Columbia.

A very famous address here in the States, but somehow my Egyptian caller wasn’t familiar with it and took all my information.

A gorgeous place, indeed!

Regrettably, I didn’t have amazing information, but I did tell him it had a fenced-in yard, tons of extra bedrooms, a big round office, and top-notch security system.

Two days later I got a call.

“Not sure who you are, but well played. I’ve been laughing for the last half hour. How did you convince them you owned the white house?”

The first gentleman that called got the joke.

He congratulated me and we had a laugh and he hung up.

Noice!

An hour later I got another call from someone who wasn’t laughing.

“I am trying to figure out why I got a sales lead on the white house.”

Well, that’s because people in Egypt, where you buy your illegal sales leads, don’t know anything about America.

“Yeah, well, I don’t think this is funny.”

So he was mad someone disturbed his peace?

That’s tough because I think it’s hysterical.

Not only did you waste money on a useless sales lead, now I’m wasting your time.

Does anyone else have any famous addresses I should sell?

This was a genius way to avoid stress, in my opinion.

Let’s see Redditor’s contribution to this story.

A reader suggests an address…

Another good one.

The nerve!

I bet they still wouldn’t suspect a thing with these ones.

Oh my!

This is a great one!

This commenter shares a similar experience.

When telemarketers give you lemons…

You might as well amuse yourself.

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