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These are all great, but I've done none of them and get maybe 1 spam call a month. It's easy... just answer the calls and talk to them. Have a bookmark to http
by mwint 5y ago
These are all great, but I've done none of them and get maybe 1 spam call a month. It's easy... just answer the calls and talk to them.
Have a bookmark to https://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com https://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com, go along with their script and feed them all the fake CC numbers they want. After a couple, they'll cuss you out, hang up, and put you on the real do-not-call list. You're hurting them by tying up a phone line, a "representative's" time, and making them give bad credit card numbers to their payment processor.
Like I said, my spam calls are down to one a month. I get excited when one calls. At first I was doing a call every day or so, but it fizzled out really fast.
Spammers are a business; if you make it hideously unprofitable to call you they'll quit calling you.
- willis936 5y agoI've heard hearsay that the list you get put on is the list where they call you then connect you to someone else on the list. Game theory suggests the spammers wouldn't want to give spammees a winning scenario.
- tpoacher 5y agoHow would that work? Spammer: Hello? Trickster: Yes hello? Spammer -> *redirects to another list member* Member: Hello? Trickster: Yes, hello? Member: Hello? How can I help? Trickster: You called me? Member: No? You called me? Trickster: No no, you called me? Member: No no no, you called me? [etc ad infinitum]
- vageli 5y agoWhen this happened to me, the spammer remained on the line and attempted their spiel to the other person, giving me the opportunity to intervene to some extent.
- timeless102 5y agoWhy do they let you stay on the line? It seems detrimental to them successfully scamming the new person they called.
- vageli 5y agoI think their metrics are tracked and thus they want to avoid short calls or hanging up on someone who calls in.
- mwint 5y agoI bet some of them out there do that, but so far mine haven’t. My spammers usually threaten to kill me, then hang up, then I never hear from them again. If they were using me to slow down competitors, I’d expect more call volume than I get.
- vageli 5y agoYeah this has happened to me. I wrote a simple script that spams spammers from a pool of phone numbers I rent. At one point my calls were starting to get connected to other targets of the spammers. When I noticed this I actually got on the phone and tried to tell the other person that they were being scammed and they seemed appreciative.