[nubb]

there is a potential downside to this kind of action.

i nuked a scam caller once with a killer deez nutz joke. the guy went bonkers when he realized. i think it was ligma or bofa or something. that day i won a battle.

since then i receive 25+ calls a day. i had to enable call blocking from unknown numbers. unfortunately i sometimes have to disable this feature when expecting calls.

you may win a battle and walk away with a cool war story but you will lose the war a million times over.

[Scoundreller]

Iunno, I have two numbers in the same area code, one work and one personal. I fuck with them on my personal number but not on the work number.

Can’t say I’ve observed any difference in inbound frequency.

If we could just advise everyone to mess with them and waste their time, the problem would go away.

(Which is the opposite of local advice by “law enforcement” to just hang up, which just speeds up the scammer’s process to find an actual victim)

[cafeinux]

I like messing with phone scammers and telemarketers. I always try new scenarios. Once I answered and shouted on the phone "Listen here, if I get only one more call from you, I will find you, I will kill you, I will behead you and I will shit in what's left of your throat, is that understood?". My wife was absolutely mortified and afraid that they'd call the cops on us (as if scammers would put themselves just for some empty threats). Unfortunately for me, or fortunately, the calls have drastically diminished in number since that one call...

[melagonster]

Agree. this guy know your phone number. maybe he decides to find where you are and murder you? do not play with criminal.