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I average around 3 robocalls each weekday. They are annoying and it's made me set my phone to not ring when I'm at work. Do you do anything other than hang up
by criddell 3y ago
I average around 3 robocalls each weekday. They are annoying and it's made me set my phone to not ring when I'm at work.
Do you do anything other than hang up when you get a robocall?
Sometimes when I do answer a robocall I just ask them to hold on for a second while I get a pen and something to write on then I set the phone down and go back to work. They rarely stay on the line for more than 10 seconds and one Medicaid scammer calls often enough that he recognizes my voice and will tell me to fuck off and then hangs up immediately.
- edgyquant 3y agoI often don’t answer but when I do I set them on silent. Most times it’s immediate hang up but occasionally (less often nowadays) I’d get one that would just sit there indefinitely. My hunch is this the scanner that finds numbers that answer.
- ezfe 3y agoWith the car warranty people I would let them say their script and ask random (somewhat stupid) questions - I had a fake car/vin/address/name that I'd read to get through any of those questions. Haven't gotten one in months though...
- foobarian 3y agoHah. With some voice-to-text steps a LLM could talk to these callers for a while before they realized...
- CharleFKane 3y agoThe car warranty people always hang up on me when I tell them I want an extended warranty… …on my 1909 Stanley Steamer.
- coldpie 3y ago> Do you do anything other than hang up when you get a robocall? Yes, I don't answer in the first place. My phone may as well not have the "phone" feature, I think I use it less than once per month.
- Aromasin 3y agoI have a rule that I don't pick up unless I already have them in my contacts. If they're not and they need to contact me, they can text me or send me an email, and I'll call back.
- zirgs 3y agoHow do you handle deliveries then?
- yamtaddle 3y agoIs this an apartment thing? I don't receive calls for deliveries. US, live in a house.
- zirgs 3y agoYeah, delivery men usually call to ask if anyone is at home.
- Aromasin 3y agoNever received a call for delivery, other than take out food which I'm expecting a call from. That would be an edge case.
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y agoPeople are outraged when I tell them I have no phone in my house that rings. I'm outraged by the idea of people responding to phone rings like Pavlov's dogs.
- pnpnp 3y agoWhat about the case where a doctor’s office calls, then you have to call back, navigate the menus, stay on hold, then get sent to voicemail & they call back n hours later? This is a really common scenario for me, so I have to leave the ringer on to avoid it.
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- hotsauceror 3y agoI answer it and leave the call going until they hang up. I don’t say or do anything else. It costs me nothing and it wastes a bit of their time. It’s a tiny rock in their gears.
- Clubber 3y agoiPhones have a feature where it just goes straight to voicemail if the calling number isn't in your contacts. That's useful most of the time but I have to remember to turn it off when I'm expecting a call from the plumber telling verifying the service or something.
- elromulous 3y agoI pick up and try to waste their time as much as I can, while working on some chore / mindless task. I figure every second I keep them on the phone is another second they're not scamming an elderly person. Edit: I think my record is about one hour with the "social security administration".