Do you guys mess with them a bit too?? When they aren’t robocalls?
Peg is pretty good at making a really old ladies voice and acting like she’s very hard of hearing.
Does anyone answer saying “ hello us dept of immigration, how can I help you??”

Never tried that one but yeah I love messin around with em

Spewing fake chinese jibberish at them seems to work well....Annoy them more to win the war, Lol.

Sometimes.
Had a guy call trying to sell life insurance. I asked if it was just for me or could I get some on my wife too? He said “sure, we can write your wife”. I said, “ this is your lucky day, I’ll take all you can write on my wife, you just need to date the policy yesterday cuz she died this morning.”

He actually laughed and said he’d never had that one before. lol

The more you engage the more calls you will get. Seen this with a friend of mine that liked to play with them. His phone never stopped ringing.

Answer, "National Spam and Fraud Prevention Bureau. Calls from this number have previously been reported as spam and/or fraud. Please state your full name, date of birth date, job title and physical business address for the legal record."

Keith

Used to give the phone to my children when they were real little. Now I just don't answer calls from numbers I don't know.

I've found that nothing annoys them more than the sports horn I keep by the phone,ANY crap calls get a blast, and I've actualloy had them call right back several times, just to get a 2nd, 3rd or more dose! LOL

If you're not in my "phone book" it don't get answered, they can leave a message....they never do, lol

Hahahaha!!!

If you ask them what they are wearing, they usually hang up on you.

Why do telemarketing companies hire call center employees who do not speak English? I just hang up on foreign callers.

Problem is that they leave a voice mail of nothing, but it puts your voice mail over limit.
So you don't get messages you need.,

What I don't understand is the phone companies can label them as spam, but can't trace them.
How can they use , say, your personal number to call you with their scam?

Simple, phone company's know who the SPAMMERS are to label them as SPAM.
It costs SPAMMERS little to have a call-bot dial numbers all day long.

SPAMMERS DON'T know who YOU are when they call. It's just a call bot dialing numbers.

### ### ##68
### ### ##69
### ### ##70
### ### ## 71 Etc.......................

They'll eventually dial a number that some UN-suspecting naive human will answer...............

They dial 100 numbers, 99 will hang up or reject their BS..........
It's that `100th person that will listen to them and perhaps they can exploit them.............

Cause it's cheap. Capitalism at work! In this day of instantaneous satellite communication, Philippine operators can be hired at a fraction of the cost of what American operators can be hired at.

Lot's of call centers hire Indian (dot not feather) operators for cheap also. The ones I've talked to have better spoken English than I do. Very articulate.

I could care less where they're from.
Just hang them from a tall tree!
They're not all from India !

Search for a cheaper car insurance , and see what happens.