At night. I was alone. My cellphone rang. I picked it up and saw an unknown number on the screen. Could be something important.
'Halo?'
'Halo Bang, ini aku.' said a woman's voice at the other end.
'Apa?' I didn't recognize that voice.
'Ini aku loh, Bang. Bang aku kasihan lah sama si Enny, dia lagi dalam masalah...' and she proceeds to talk in a very concerned voice about someone named Enny who seemed to be in trouble. I just sat there listening incredulously, frowning, but my fuse had already been lit.
'Ini siapa?' I demanded, cutting her short.
There was a reluctant pause at the other end.
'Ini aku Bang.' she said.
'Ya SIAPA? Mau cari SIAPA?' I raised my voice. By this time I was already completely annoyed.
'...Cari Enny, Bang.' Wasn't this Enny the name of the person she was talking about? And now she said she was looking for her? Then why did she talk to me all this time? Oh, what, so I'm a woman now?
'Aku kasihan lah sama dia...'
'Salah sambung.' I said as coldly as humanely possible, and slammed my cellphone down.
Ten seconds later it rang again. Same number. I should've just ignored it, but I think I needed to make it clear to the idiot at the other end that her call is unwanted. And part of me was enjoying this. So I answered.
'Halo.'
'Tapi nomornya kayaknya betul lah Bang...' The same woman.
'MAU CARI SIAPA.' I bellowed.
'Cari Enny, Bang... '
'ENNY SIAPA?!'
'Enny, Bang. Aku kasihan lah sama dia...' Now this woman sounded like a broken record and an idiot. But I didn't need to hear anymore. A flood of profanities swelled to the tip of my tongue, but I am a person with the unfortunate tendency of losing his words when in fury. So I just hanged up.
The same number called me again twice after that, but I ignored it.
What an absolute idiot. Did she think I would fall for that? But I suppose you gotta hand it to these tele-frauds, they sure don't give up easily. Good thing, too, that I read that piece of article in Waspada (see? I read newspapers!) about this new kind of modus operandi. These people would call you, blurted out one name that they hoped by one huge miracle happened to be the name of a person that you do happen to know, then they would say this person was in trouble and need money quickly, and then they would ask you to send that money. Riiiight...
What mystifies me is, why do these phone-scammers always have a lot of trouble distinguishing people's sexes from their voice? My friend, who was having a cold at the time, one day received one such call. The person at the other end kept on and on blabbering about someone in trouble, and all the while he kept addressing my friend as "Bang".
My friend is female.
Needless to say, she was pissed.
Like I said, what an absolute idiot.
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