I think I've seen a new scam

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Nope. Once your name is out there, even if you block/don't reply to them, they are traded online.

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Just like telemarketers.

I now answer telemarketing calls and waste their time. Certain ones from India have similar messages or hold scripts and I'll press 0 or 1 to get a live operator and then play Hindi music. Even if I waste 15 seconds of their time, that cuts into their human call resources and by doing that, after a few months the rate of spam calls dropped by about 80%.

Instead of being pissed, I make it into a sport to see if I can piss them off.

I'll sometimes bait the Hilton or cruise line spam calls and keep them talking for 10 minutes asking about their program, just to say that I loved wasting their time, ans will continue to do so each time they call -- poof, no more calls from them..

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