Credit Card scammers won’t leave your phone alone? Ok, the solution is simple, but will take a concerted effort by all the public. You break their stones when you tie up their operators for long periods of time, say 10-12 minutes or so- they don’t make any money during that time and they still pay the operator. You do this as follows:
Get to their operator. Pretend to be a senile senior citizen. I usually sound befuddled and ask questions like “is my card being cancelled?” or “am I late on my payment”? Then give them a long story about your lousy children and how they usually pay your bills. Then tell them bizarre stories about your dead relatives, admit paying 22% interest on your cards, but act like you are happy to be talking to them and tease them that you are eventually going to do business.
Then they’ll press you for a card #. Tell them you have to go get your purse and then take about 2 minutes (not too long!) to get back on the phone. Then start giving them the wrong card number (make sure the first 6-8 numbers are correct, otherwise they know right away its a fake). You get the idea: WASTE THEIR TIME!!! If they chase their tail enough they’ll be motivated to take you off their list. If 50-60 people chewed up at least 5 minutes of each operators time, you’ve taken over almost the entire day from the scammer and the business model will die!
I have done that to scammers. I. Have acted drunk or stoned, asked them to wait a minute and left them till they hang up on me. Some times I have put the phone down in front of the radio and let them listen to Rush Limbaugh. Guess I need to try harder.
My sister in law is mentally handicapped and loves to take on the phone. One time I gave her the phone and went and took a long shower and when I got out they were still on the line. HA HA!