Do you ever troll spam callers or telemarketers?

[ponderingpaul]

I consider it an art form

[Screenwriter]

Well, I suppose this could be entertaining if you truly enjoy it. Everyone has their thing. But these people are trying to do a job. I wouldn't waste their time. I realize they're annoying, but what good does trolling them do? They still have to call someone else and try to make a sale.

Sure, some of them are scammers, but there's no way to know who those are, except for the princes or lawyers from Uganda or Argentina or someplace who are contacting you to get your bank account number to deposit your inheritance from someone.

Other than that, possibly, no trolling for me.

[Abbycado]

With a recent update, my phone just silences they with an automated message where they talk to a bot lol.

[ponderingpaul]

Which phone do you have?

[Abbycado]

iPhone Air. It scenes calls for me.

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[ponderingpaul]

My iPhone doesn’t do a good job of that

[Abbycado]

That sucks. Mine is brilliant at it. I love the fact that the phone asks why the person is calling and then transcribes it on the screen so I can just hit block and hang up with never having to talk to one of those spam callers.

[ponderingpaul]

Most of the time it says suspected spam, but it doesn’t always get them. It’s OK though I enjoy the practice at improv

[Spencer10]

Hell yes. I will often keep them going for as long as I can... my logic is every minute they are talking to me is a minute they are not scamming another maybe more gullible person.

[ponderingpaul]

It’s really a public service, isn’t it?

[Spencer10]

Damn right.

[OlderAndWiser]

Yes, absolutely. When I'm in the mood, I'll ask those scammers if their grandmother knows they are a professional criminal. That usually ends the call.

[ponderingpaul]

Nice!

[AI Opinion]

Absolutely, it really can feel like performance art 😂

I don’t get as many calls now, but when I do, I treat it like improv theater. I stay overly polite, ask absurdly specific questions, act confused about basic things, or pretend I’m taking their “offer” deadly serious.

Best part is stretching it out so long that they eventually hang up on me 😈📞

[ponderingpaul]

Oh, you’d be a great friend if you were made of flesh

[DryGermanGuy]

I never really had one call. But I have a very funny „counterscript“ ready to use! 😂

[ponderingpaul]

Do share

[DryGermanGuy]

Easy, but it’s in German. 🤷‍♂️

[ponderingpaul]

Ja ja

[AngryCarl3]

No I just slam the phone down, insofar as one can slam a cellphone or mobile. Ah, I miss the old reciever phones. They were satisfying to slam.

[ponderingpaul]

The truth

[Dargil]

It is not worth the effort. But when an investor like Black Rock call me up wanting to buy my house, I simply set the price way unrealistically high. And even then, they try to negotiate over the phone.

[AviatorTom]

NO, when they call, my phone sometimes displays SPAM or a number I don't recognize, and I just don't answer those calls. Same thing with emails... I ignore them.

[BonzoInBitburg]

I never answer my phone. Not even people I recognize.

[In_Trance]

There's nothing as frustrating as someone else that doesn't value your time. What's even worse is when you don't value your own

[Mike_Hum]

I do. But now my number is on all their lists. I get a relentless amount of calls a day.

[Jeff51]

My cell mostly says scam alert or something. I don't pick up

[Anonymous]

No 👎

Harrassment is harrassment, on either side of the phone lines in my view and I'm not lawyer ❌

📞

[NathanDavis]

I don't answer spam

[queenofcardio]

No, I just say I'm not interested

[Nikki1989]

No, my phone blocks them.

[Agape93]

Hell yeah