I try waste as much of their time as possible. It seems Iβve been such a cunt and wasted so much of their time that they have put my number on a blacklist.
I have a work phone and a personal phone. The work phone i answer calls from I known numbers all the time. My contact information gets passed around as part of my business. For a while I had scammers hitting my number 3-4 times per day. I answered and fucked with them every time. A little free stress relief through the day. Now I almost never get them anymore.
My personal phone I have always screened all the calls. It still gets hit with scammers 2-3 times per week.
I guess you are right. There is a list going around of numbers who waste their time.
Thatβs what I figured too. Make sure to be the biggest pain for them. Seems dumb to put someone that is savvy and not a rube on a list to be called more. I would think the not answering scam calls would get you more calls because they are unsure of you.
I defiantly got onto the call more list at one point but I kept being the biggest pain in the ass and one day they just stopped completely. I once had these one people on the phone for 6hours straight and went through about 4 transfers in the process. They connected with my VM at one point where I was live developing a fake bank website I had passed through from my host. Did u know u can embed the password game into a website extremely easily and conveniently I needed a password reset and needed help. Yes I stole the idea from kitboga.
Jesus Christ dude. 6 hours?!
Ignoring calls is easy enough. I value my time more.
If I donβt recognize a number I just donβt answer it. No time commitment.
I donβt have the patience to keep it up for a long time but I barely get any scam calls after pushing the button to talk to someone and then just asking about the plot holes in their script. Like the one claiming thereβs going to be a warrant for me, why does the guy need to ask for my name and other information? Why would revenue Canada (of anyone who isnβt a scammer of some sort) ever want any kind of payment in gift cards? Iβll use a tone of voice on the verge of laughter, too.
One time, after I asked, the guy just asked me why I even pressed the button to talk to a person and then hung up. Most of the time they just hang up. Sometimes the English option seems to only be there to make it seem more realistic for those who would pick the Chinese option because the call disconnects right after picking English.
Though more recently Iβve just been hanging up early in the recording when I do get the odd scam call. They might filter that, too, because even the volume of those calls stays low. Which makes sense because even just making the calls probably costs them something, even if itβs just pennies.
They get paid for that time. They literally do not care.
Youβre only wasting your own time.
