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My strategy with robocalls has been to answer every single one of them if I am able, get a person on the line, and then waste as much of their time as possible
by jordemort 5y ago
My strategy with robocalls has been to answer every single one of them if I am able, get a person on the line, and then waste as much of their time as possible while being extremely weird. I'm down to one every week or two now. Everyone needs a hobby.
- encryptluks2 5y agoGreat until you realize some of them may later use your voice to create a voice profile and then blackmail you.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoAre there documented cases of this happening?
- thechao 5y agoMy brother had a stressful afternoon in court a bit more than a decade ago with the same “yes” obviously spliced into a recording. The judge was pretty humored by the recording and kept asking the plaintiff (the scammer) to play it over & over again. After a while the plaintiff’s attorney left. This was a one-off scuzzball. However, to this day, myself, and all my acquaintances answer the question “Is this thechao?” with a “this is he/she”.
- jordemort 5y agoOh, I always do a funny voice. That's the best part!
- nikanj 5y agoThis assumes 1) The scammers talk to other scammers buying the same list of phone numbers 2) The scammers bother to clean up the list of people to call. I keep getting the same "You have received a parcel in the mail that contains illegal drugs" call many times a day, talk to an "officer" every time, and they keep calling me again. Either there are multiple gangs running the same scam (including the same tape), or they just don't care that this mark has already been called a few times with little luck.
- rightbyte 5y agoIt is an altruistic way to decrease the estimated value of a minute of spam call.