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The only spam I get is from some insurance company out of Florida. For whatever reason they won't stop calling. Everybody else stopped calling because I would a
by behringer 4y ago
The only spam I get is from some insurance company out of Florida. For whatever reason they won't stop calling. Everybody else stopped calling because I would always pick up and always try and worm my way through the system, and once caught or bored, then start questioning their moral character and their family's opinions of their life choices, or my favorite, why they choose to scam people (they always say they don't!).
The call volume went way down after a while.
- RajT88 4y agoI have done the same. AFAICT it has made no difference in call volume. I did make some vacation package scammers feel bad and hang up a couple times. Claiming that I no longer travel because I lost my legs In a car accident years back. Family that can use the vacation package? Nope, they are all dead too. The last of them died in the same fiery crash.
- guelo 4y agoI use to do the same and then one vindictive scammer attacked me with nonstop hangup calls for weeks from random numbers. Now I'm more wary of interacting with them at all.
- behringer 4y agoyes that is always the risk when dealing with criminals :( They could just be mental.
- walrus01 4y agoone of the worst things you can do with them is engage and speak as a live human, even if all you're doing is taunting them, because then your number gets permanently marked as a live human in some grey/black market spam fuck's CSV file they sell to other people.
- InCityDreams 4y agoAnswer the call. Do not speak. They will give up. If you engage with them they will continue to call. Do not speak to them, just answer the call and leave them listening to nothing. # no call center supervisor will let their employee just sit there and wait for you to answer....your silence actually does cost them money.
- can16358p 4y agoWould work for humans. Don't think it would work much for recorded robot calls, as the cost of the call is probably negligible compared to hiring an actual person. One might even be "marked" as "listening the marketing material" which would end up getting more calls.
- imglorp 4y agoTaking that to the extreme, there are bots that will engage the caller with enough noncommittal answers for long enough they will truly waste money on you. Eg, https://jollyrogertelephone.com https://jollyrogertelephone.com
- Supermancho 4y ago> Answer the call. Do not speak. I grunt and listen for a response (if any). It's pretty easy to distinguish a human from a robocall nowadays. There was a brief time when a woman's voice would say "hello, uh, hello? can you hear me?" which got me once, but that was it because it played whether you made noise or not and was always the same.
- robonerd 4y agoTry "Does your mother know you're a thief?" American scammers usually laugh at that, but it instantly enrages Indian scammers. I think their mothers don't know, and would be ashamed if they did.