I had an older lady call me to ask why I had been calling her phone. Had to explain that scammers were faking caller ID numbers, it wasn’t me, and everyone was dealing with the same garbage phone calls. She was initially ready to chew me out, but deflated pretty quickly when she realized her vexation would have to be vented toward someone else.
Comment on I am getting inundated with calls from some sort of tax scam and it's driving me nuts.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Does anyone answer if you call back?
I love fucking with the actual scammers. Last time I actually paid for an eFax subscription and kept spamming them back with fax calls.
It took a day or two but they stopped calling.
EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’d be worried about trying because they’d think I was doing it because I missed their call and would be a good mark.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
That’s when you’ve got them on the hook. Then you string them along until they finally realize that you’ve been messing with them the entire time and start angrily cursing you over the phone.
I make it my personal mission to waste as much of those shitbags time as possible.
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Not all heroes wear capes. Thank you for your service!