I love messing with them, too. But I don’t call them. But if they call me they’re gonna be wasting a lot of time.
But I don’t call them. “But if they call me they’re gonna be wasting a lot of time.”
My wife is in that same mode. She is from the Midwest and has this great female voice with zero accent.
At least once a day she will spend minutes with some caller wanting to sell something.
She gives them a local phone # for calls. She gives them a number for the a local mental health or bar.
I had a friend who used to hand the phone to his 4 year old when he got calls from some yutz. A 4 year old can prattle on for quite a while.