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 A short while back I came up with what has
turned out to be a pretty effective way to handle those pain-in-the-donkey unsolicited
telephone calls. We don't have caller ID on our home phone
(the phone company wants about $30/month for it) so
we have to answer every time it rings or risk missing a wanted call. It is well
known that once you pick up, the call centers then know yours is a good number to
call so it gets passed on to even more call spammers. Being listed on the federal
"Do Not Call" list is only one line of defense, and does almost no good for out-of-country
sources.
Most of the callers will keep talking over you until you hang up, even after
expressing no desire to deal with them. So, what I do now as soon as I determine
it is a spam call is start speaking a list of keywords for which the FBI, DHS, and
other law enforcement agencies notoriously monitor. I'll calmly say something along
the lines of, "I hope the FBI and Department of Homeland Security is listening to
this conversation because to me you are like an ISIS terrorist organization attacking
my homeland in the United States by throwing bombs on the telephone and mass shooting
large numbers of infidels with your hateful rhetoric." I have not yet had a single
person stay on the line long enough for me to even finish." They don't even argue.
Posted December 11, 2015
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