These buggers are little different too. They are trying to gain access to your PC so they can hack, load trojans, and add malware.
The only sad part is that apparently there are enough naive people out there who fall for it. The longer I can contain them, the fewer victims they find.
When my kids were younger (daughter just barely talking), they used to love to talk on the phone, especially to grandma and grandpa. They didn't listen well on the phone but the talked (or babbled) at length. My wife and I would deal with telemarketers by handing my 2 year old the phone and telling them it was Grandpa, then walk away.
The thing was, my daughter would never know when the other party had hung up. She'd just keep going. In one instance, I had forgot I handed her the phone. about 10 minutes later, I noticed she was still on the phone. I assumed the telemarketer had long since given up. I took the phone from her and the sales person was still asking to talk to her mom or dad. I said, "Hello?". To which the lady asked if I was Mr. XXXXX. I said hold on and handed my daughter the phone back.
How do you waste telemarketers’ time without wasting your own time too?