Image: Lady focused on using a laptop.
Caption: Me googling the number that just called instead of answering like a fucking adult.
Image: Lady focused on using a laptop.
Caption: Me googling the number that just called instead of answering like a fucking adult.
I don’t want to give scammers the satisfaction of me even picking up.
it’s not satisfaction, it’s confirmation that the number is legit and being used. if you answer, you fuck yourself. not answering is the right call.
I do! I say hello and then put the phone on the table and wash some dishes at them until they hang up.
Annoying them and wasting their time is my gift to society.
I get a particular spam call at least once a day. I recently tried answering, setting my phone under a pot, and banging the fuck out of it with a spoon. Modern phones must suppress sudden loud sounds though because all I got was, “I think you’re breaking up, is anyone there?” Highly disappointing.
Play the SIT intercept sound to them.
You know… the beeps with the message that says the line is no longer in service, etc.
Is they’re using an automated dialer, it’ll recognize the beeps, and odds are your number will be automatically purged from their list for a while.
A majority of the time, they require you to speak to a robot for a minute to get at an actual human being. Not to mention there’s a 50/50 shot that you’d be wasting the time of a slave held prisoner under threat of death. Unfortunately, there’s no perfect answer to this, aside from massive and immediate police and telecom action. However, I sincerely doubt that either will happen.
That might be the case, though often it is young people voluntarily looking for some easy money.
But either way, it’s not right what they do and every minute I take of their time is a minute they don’t spend scamming a more gullible person who does not deserve their savings stolen.