> Propose a means for “how to counter-strike” the bad guys without restricting your rights to drive. <
There are YouTubers who call-flood scammers. That would be a good start. Just do it on a larger scale.
For those not in the know, call-flooding is using a computer program to call a specific phone number over and over, thousands of times. This usually shuts the number down, at least temporarily.
This counter-strike would have limited value against scammers who call you, as they usually spoof their own numbers. But it would be VERY effective against scammers who must use their real numbers in email scams.
Scams like: “You have won a $1000 Visa gift certificate. Call (whatever) to claim your prize.”
Or,
“This is your last notice from the IRS. Call (whatever) to avoid legal action against you.”
Call-flood ‘em.
Call flooding can work in a few specific cases, like the email ones you mentioned. But it comes at a cost to you, and it’s only a temporary measure. Either you purchase an outbound phone line which costs you actual dollars, or you use a calling service like Skype, but in short order the scammers figure out your outbound number and block it, and I’m sure they already know how to identify computer service outbound calls, and similarly block them. So although flooding would work, it would only work for a little while and it would probably be more trouble or cost than it’s worth.