What else would you suggest? Sure, the guy making the call is probably desperate, but by wasting his time, you are keeping him from calling gullible people. Eve

What else would you suggest? Sure, the guy making the call is probably desperate, but by wasting his time, you are keeping him from calling gullible people. Even if the guy making the call never costs the owner because the caller gets paid on numbers gleaned, it still ties up the owner's phone lines and costs him rent.