Once I talked to such a person for a while and asked them about their day and how things were going for them. It seems to me there is no one to sensibly abuse so I just hang up immediately. The people that do the work need it even if they have robots helping them. About the only use I have for a landline now is as way to advertise my area code, e.g. to a hiring agent. (One can do that easily enough with VOIP if one thinks it could be useful to fake it.)
-----Original Message----- From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ?>$ Sent: Monday, October 4, 2021 9:24 AM To: FriAM <[email protected]> Subject: [FRIAM] do you answer those phone calls? Who scams the scammers? Meet the scambaiters https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/03/who-scams-the-scammers-meet-the-amateur-scambaiters-taking-on-the-crooks Story: When Renee' and I first got the new phone number here in Oly, the calls were non-stop, 10-20 per day on the landline. I just removed the phone from my office and don't look at or check messages on the landline anymore. But I finally bit the bullet and started answering every call. And talking to whoever was there. If I had to push a button to get to a human, I pushed the button. If I had to talk to a robot for awhile in order to get to a human, I talked to the robot. After about a week of this, the calls started to fade. After about a month, we were down to 1-3 calls per day. Now we're down to maybe 2-3 per week. It works to simply waste their time. And it works whether their "legitimate" life insurance salespeople or scammers. -- "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie." ☤>$ uǝlƃ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
