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Q: Chinese telemarketing - what is the strangest call you ever received?
I get about 10 unsolicited calls every day from Chinese telemarketers and I usually just say "wo bu dong" and hang up. But once in a while I get "interesting" calls. I just got one yesterday in bad but understandable English that went sort of like this...
"Hello foreigner! You don't have to suffer financially in China teaching English. Even if you enjoy teaching, we can offer you and extra 3,000 yuan every month. For details, stay on the line..." Of course I was curious so I held for about a minute before "Ying" came on the line live and started asking me my age, if I smoke, drink, or use drugs, if I had any hereditary disease, and what my IQ was!!!!! So, I stopped her and said I wasn't going to answer any of those questions until she told me what she was selling.
Get this... They are looking and paying for three things... They are buying sperm for 3,000 (for 3 specimens) and they are buying the rights to your organs in case of your "sudden demise". It is a Korean company in Wangjing and they said they have been operating six years in Hong Kong and Taiwan and just opened an office in Beijing and Shanghai in the last three months.
Their organ program pays you 15,000 yuan now and 15,000 yuan to your next of kin upon your death (a paltry sum for your kidney, liver, bone marrow, and heart) They even offer a "free body check" and " 500 yuan gift" if you come in for an appointment within 72 hours! They also buy a life insurance policy on you "in case you do not honor your committment".
The third item they are peddling is blood purchases supposedly "for research". They pay 1,000 yuan for a pint of blood and if you have "O" type blood they pay 2,000 yuan. You are allowed to sell your sperm and blood once a month.
So what was the strangest call YOU ever received in China？
I would never answer a phone call from an unknown number, for a variety of reasons.
anyone I know who has my number I tell them that if I don't answer, to send a text.
Weeds the legit callers from the scammers and doesn't waste my time.
ScotsAlan:
Same here. If the number is not stored in my phone, I don't answer.
I got one from Guizhou saying that I had raped someone and I had to pay money. I explained that I had never been to Guizhou, then the story changed to asking if I knew any foreigners who had been to Guizhou.
How this guy knew I was a foreigner, I will never know.
Usually, if I am wearing sunnies, I can't read who is calling so I answer them from time to time.
Wolf-tip: only speak english and never respond to a question asked in Chinese. If you ONLY speak english then they give up quickly and remove you from the database....using this method, I have not received followup calls. Or of course you can just leave the call open and put your phone back in your pocket.
I had a woman call me and say this "I want sexy time with foreign man, how much it cost me? "
I laughed and hung up. Then she called again a week later and said the same thing...
I guess she was insane and wanted a foreign baby. She kept calling all the foreign males in the city. I guess she got one and he gave her everyone's number... pretty weird. Don't know if she was a telemarketer.
With them, I usually just tell them I am a foreigner and remove me from the list.
What's interesting is that these numbers are (mostly) well-known and complained about and yet the telecoms do nothing (almost as if the revenue they generate is worth more than the telecoms blocking them).
Just like our admin does nothing about Harvey2Face and Ipso_Facto
sorrel:
Ipso_facto is just a misunderstood sensitive flower with communication problems 
Judging from some of the comments,it appears they have a list of numbers for foreigners. My roomie reminded me about a Chinese woman caller claiming to be a widow and offering 300,000 yuan to get her pregnant. Although we were not quite sure how it it worked, we concluded it was a scam and hung up. The following day, three of my teaching colleagues got the same call. With no FTC or BBB, or any other noticeable enforcement in China, the telemarketing scammers must be doing well.
Guizhou is the backwoods of China. Seriously. Full of mountains and whatnot and the people are somewhat isolated outside of tourist places like Guilin and Yongshuo.
If China does a remake of the movie "Deliverance", they should film it in Guizhou and hire the locals as extras. "尖叫像猪的男孩！
10 calls a day explain your story very well. Why don't you put your efforts in writing stories for kids? I mean I do get such calls every second week but never had a word with them. How could you get that much information from them and the rates.... Lols. Are you looking for the donor by yourself ?
