Why does ANYONE answer their phone when someone calls, other than numbers they know?!?
When our land line rings, we pay no attention. The ring is just ambient noise. We wouldn’t even have it, if not for net access.
If a number calls my cell phone that I’m not familiar with, I let it go to voice mail. If they leave a message that indicates they aren’t anyone I want to talk to, I just add their number to my phone block list. I’ll never know whether or not they call again.
Of course, looking at the result of this ruling, maybe I should ALLOW myself to get “harassed”. lol
I have a landline I keep because of the alarm system. Bare bones no caller ID, wire maintenance, etc.
When I get a call, I say “Hello”...if someone doesn’t answer within 1 second I hang up. It is a boiler room call and these operations can’t transfer to a human in a second.
On others where they do answer within the time frame, I just say “I don’t give over the phone” and hang up, or “Not interested” and hang up.
My only enjoyment was for a few days a month or so ago I got one of these Indian boiler room calls from “IT Department at Microsoft” saying my computer had a virus, blah blah blah.
I first asked them “If you know my computer - tell me its IP address”. They couldn’t and hung up. The next day got the same call but this time she knew it - it was the default router setting every manufacturer uses. I told her no, I changed mine - “what is it?” Hangup....this went on for about a week and they gave up.