This reminds me of stuff we used to do with 96 line dialers way back in the day. It was a pretty solid tactic for dealing with anyone that scammed us. Difficult

This reminds me of stuff we used to do with 96 line dialers way back in the day. It was a pretty solid tactic for dealing with anyone that scammed us. Difficult number portability, a lack of ubiquitous capability to cost effectively deal with a phone DoS, their lack of knowledge about various telecommunications laws (what with search engines not being what they are today) and most importantly the fact that they were almost universally uninterested in engaging law enforcement (what with the scamming or fraud) it was a pretty effective way to get bad people to stop being bad. But it was a long time ago and I wouldn't do it again given the chance. I was really young, it was definitely an ethically gray area and we were breaking at least one law. I also came to understand over time that the reason we kept having run ins with scammers was because we were running a shady ISP/hosting and telemarketing business that had a significant portion of customers who were scamming their own customers. If it always smells like shit there might be some on your shoe. It was an important lesson and now I pay a lot more attention to how my employer gets money and who they get it from. On a lighter note we won tickets a couple times calling radio stations. We felt pretty bad about cheating like that so we never did it again but it was pretty effective as long as you had a couple butts in seats to deal with the "sorry you're not the 9th caller" pickups.