Take this with a grain of salt, but there is one example of answering scam calls that was really effective for me. I had been getting spoofed calls that looked like they were coming from my bank. The first one I actually answered and got some real people on the phone (thankfully realized it was a scam before saying anything bad).
Anyway, these guys were calling me several times a day. I finally decided to start answering every call and just setting my phone down on the table and letting it run. The calls are probably automated, but when you answer it transfers it to a real person. By picking it up every time I was wasting that real person’s time. They stopped calling very fast after I started doing it and haven’t called since.
I still don’t answer no matter who or what I may think it is … even if I sorta suspect that it may be my bank, I still won’t answer and usually I’ll call my actual bank and ask them if they tried to call me about something.
I kind of did what you said for a while but it’s too much of a waste of my time to deal with. I just don’t bother any more and after about a year or two, I got fewer and fewer calls. I’m so bad with my phone that even my family and friends complain to me that they never hear from me and that they complain that I don’t answer the majority of their calls.
I really don’t like phones any more and I only ever use them if I really, absolutely need to talk to someone.
Take this with a grain of salt, but there is one example of answering scam calls that was really effective for me. I had been getting spoofed calls that looked like they were coming from my bank. The first one I actually answered and got some real people on the phone (thankfully realized it was a scam before saying anything bad).
Anyway, these guys were calling me several times a day. I finally decided to start answering every call and just setting my phone down on the table and letting it run. The calls are probably automated, but when you answer it transfers it to a real person. By picking it up every time I was wasting that real person’s time. They stopped calling very fast after I started doing it and haven’t called since.
I still don’t answer no matter who or what I may think it is … even if I sorta suspect that it may be my bank, I still won’t answer and usually I’ll call my actual bank and ask them if they tried to call me about something.
I kind of did what you said for a while but it’s too much of a waste of my time to deal with. I just don’t bother any more and after about a year or two, I got fewer and fewer calls. I’m so bad with my phone that even my family and friends complain to me that they never hear from me and that they complain that I don’t answer the majority of their calls.
I really don’t like phones any more and I only ever use them if I really, absolutely need to talk to someone.
Well that’s the thing, doing that technique I mentioned takes no time whatsoever for me but DOES take time for them. It’s a nice petty little revenge.