'He congratulated me and we had a laugh': Wise-guy trolls a telemarketer by convincing them that he owns the White House, putting the cherry on top of a series of hilarious phone pranks

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Nov 2, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

Telemarketers are the pests of the modern world. 

Like mosquitos, they incessantly bug us, buzzing in our ears and leaving messages about our extended car warranty or, worse–buying our homes for a below-value cash offer! Great! Well, this wise guy in our next story figured out a hilarious way to combat the hovering telemarketers that were swarming his phone: Trolling. 

Most of us have enjoyed our fair share of trolling over the years, engaging in mischief or acting dramatically to provoke a response from our counterparts, but u/larryskank, a novice troll and tomfoolery enthusiast has leveled up his prank game at the cost of a gang of pesky telemarketers. After weeks of getting 100s of messages on his phone about a 'company that wanted to buy his house', this prankster decided to lean into the lore and offer them a real estate address that no buyer could turn down: The White House. 

Keep scrolling for the hilariously good-natured fun that occurred when this man spent more time on the phone with a telemarketing company than most will in their lifetime just so that he could troll them at their own game. 

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    Hi do you own the property at... M I know we all hate telemarketers but these can I buy your house folks push me to a new level of annoyed.
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    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 own of that company I believe he was out of MN.
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    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.
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    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
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    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 wasn't legal,
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    he eventually hung up on me and blocked me. 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
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    so trolling is my new favorite thing. I constantly beat them to the punch and ask to buy their house, ask them how Egypt is or what the pyramids are like. I've tried to order pizza, put
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    them on hold to see how long they'd last, or just change the subject completely. My biggest win was when they ask do you have any other properties to sell, I
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    said infact I do. 1600 Pennsylvania avenue, District of Columbia. A very famous address here in the states, somehow my Egyptian caller wasn't familiar with it and took all my information.
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    Regrettably I didn't have amazing information, but I did tell him it had a fenced in yard, ton of extra bed rooms, an big round office and top notch security system. Two days later I got a call.
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    "Not sure who you are but we'll 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
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    congratulated me and we had a laugh and he hung up. An hour later I got another call from someone who wasn't laughing. "I'm trying to figure out why I got a sales lead on the white house"
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    Well that's because people in Egypt, where you buy your illegal sales leads, don't know about American. "Yeah well I don't think it's funny"
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    Well 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. He told me to go f myself but I'm not mad. Does anyone else have any famous addresses I should sell?
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    NickeDime 3h ago • 1060 W Addison Street in Chicago is a good one. Might have to clear it with the previous owner, a Mr Elwood Blues.
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    Johnnygotra... • 4h ago. Being mad because they got caught is hilarious! Well played!!
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    • glenmarshall ⚫ 3h ago • Use 143 S. 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PA. That the address of the Liberty Bell.
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    cj-jk •3h ago • 742 Evergreen terrace, Springfield (Simpsons) 31 Spooner street, Quahog, Rhode Island (Family Guy)
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    TenOfZero 4h ago. • I think you need to sell them a bridge next. Or maybe some lunar or Martian real estate?
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