09-09-2022, 01:59 PM
I used to mess with scammers. I learned some choice words in Hindi that really get them going on the phone.
I even had a Jamaican dude call me (from a Jamaican number) on my company provided cell phone with my previous employer. He was telling me I won the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes. I carried that conversation on for 20 minutes- he hung up on me. I proceeded to call him back over and over for a month with different voices saying I missed a call from that number, let him do his spiel, and wasted his time. My thinking was if I was tying him up, he wasn't able to scam anyone else. He told me the same thing when I talked to him man to man- that honest work was hard to find and he is really poor and has a family to provide for. I stopped messing with him. The following month, the AGM came to me to ask why I had over $200 in calls to Jamaica. I told him the story and he just laughed. He said he was going to dispute the charges with Verizon because International calling was supposed to be disabled on our account.
I will add this- I found that by messing with people only made more calls and text scams coming to my numbers. I found out that when you engage, they mark your number as an active phone and sell it to other call centers. So, tread carefully!
I even had a Jamaican dude call me (from a Jamaican number) on my company provided cell phone with my previous employer. He was telling me I won the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes. I carried that conversation on for 20 minutes- he hung up on me. I proceeded to call him back over and over for a month with different voices saying I missed a call from that number, let him do his spiel, and wasted his time. My thinking was if I was tying him up, he wasn't able to scam anyone else. He told me the same thing when I talked to him man to man- that honest work was hard to find and he is really poor and has a family to provide for. I stopped messing with him. The following month, the AGM came to me to ask why I had over $200 in calls to Jamaica. I told him the story and he just laughed. He said he was going to dispute the charges with Verizon because International calling was supposed to be disabled on our account.
I will add this- I found that by messing with people only made more calls and text scams coming to my numbers. I found out that when you engage, they mark your number as an active phone and sell it to other call centers. So, tread carefully!