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it's the same economics as spam: a million phone calls are cheap to buy. you only need a small percentage to respond to make a tidy profit.

• bediger4000 4y ago
  These are repeated calls to a known time waster, the asker of this question. Asker is not going to say yes, ever At this point, I've come to believe that spamming and cold calling does not make money. It's sociopathy. Phone and email spammers do it solely to cause pain and suffering. Back in the 2000-2005 time frame, email spammers would put real addresses to email back. If you complained, you'd usually get a threat reply: they'd snow you with spam emails. You were supposed to "just hit delete" or they'd punish you with what you complained about. Same with cold callers. Before IVR/VRU became cheap, you'd get humans, mostly north Americans. They would let you waste their time over and over. It's not money these psychos are after. It's pain, suffering and inflicting their will on the unwilling.
• nikau 4y ago
  Adding to that, even the scam call centres have a corporate hierarchy, they have the lowest paid staff doing the initial grunt work to try and hook a sucker, if they are successful they then handover to a more experienced scammer to close the deal.
• didgetmaster 4y ago
  That is why we need to increase the cost of each phone call and reduce the percentage who actually fall for it. If it only costs $100 to bother a million people, but you can get $1000 from a dozen people who fall for it, then it remains a profitable business model. If however, it cost 50 cents for each call then cold calling a million people now has a half million dollar expense. You have to get a lot more people to fall for it in order to cover your costs.