On 2014-06-28 11:48 AM, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:03:31 -0400, jmcquown >
> wrote:
>
>> I simply don't answer. Having "fun" with them simply tells them they
>> reached a valid number. That's one way to ensure they keep calling you.
>
> Exactly. I don't play games with unknown callers either.


Why not? You will indulge all sorts of idiocy online. I don't know
anyone who enjoys being constantly interrupted by phone calls at home,
often during the dinner hour. It became a big enough problem that
governments introduced Do Not Call registries, and heavy penalties to
enforce them. The pests got around the registries by moving the call
centres off shore where they figure our federal laws do not apply. The
hack numbers to disguise their real numbers and company names.

I didn't ask them to call me. On the contrary. I put myself on the
registry specifically to stop them from calling. If I can keep them on
the line that means that much less time for them to be calling other
people and annoying them.


Life has
> been good since they invented caller ID. My address book is my gmail
> contacts list now. If a caller isn't listed there, I don't know who
> they are and I don't answer.
>


Oh why not.