Start answering them and try to string them along as long as possible. That’s the only way you can send a signal that calling this number is actively unprofitable.
Just telling them to stop calling doesn’t work, but since I started wasting their time they have mostly quit calling. I get one or two a month.
But my time is valuable… but I would pay OpenAI's V2V rates for the privilege of stringing along scammers. I need a button “transfer to time waster agent”.
If you pay for a service like this, you will inadvertently create more spam callers. OpenAI will start (secretly) creating spam AI agents to create demand for their AI waster agents.
I know I am a bit late to the party, nothing of value was lost here.
I never signed up for it because I know this is really a method for giving telemarketers a list of good phone numbers. I hardly get any calls were people I know who signed up gets lots.
That is because these companies opened up subsidiaries in foreign countries and used the list to call people. Many calls people I know get are from spoofed numbers located in other countries.
Doubt it. I used it for several years and then forgot one year. Same amount of spam. Decided to see how it would go if I stopped and I see no difference in the amount of spam calls since.
