You gotta at least start with your most white-person “hello” possible. If its a human they might just assume silence means the call was dropped.
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Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoI’ll answer almost every call I can, but not say anything. I’ve learned that they wait for an answer before starting their shpeel, so if I answer and remain quiet, they hang up thinking I’m another bot. Then I block the number to be safe.
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captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ugh, my dumbass boomer father.
Okay. 1. My father goes by his middle name. Let’s pretend his name is Christopher James Smith. He introduces himself as Jim. For my entire life, it’s been easy to screen calls for him because “Hello, may I speak to…Christopher Smith please?” That’s spam. “Hey is Jim there?” That’s someone who knows him.
- The dumbass answer the phone “Hello, this is Jim?”
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
i do that too. if it’s from a number i’m gonna answer, i do. and then watch the call timer on the phone and don’t say anything until after three seconds. legit callers are always still there, the computers–never are.
if a call rings through that the phone company has tagged in caller id as probably bogus. i just answer and hang-up right away. they don’t call back.