<p>I don’t generally answer phone calls with unidentified numbers on caller ID (leave that to my husband so he can harass them, he enjoys that). Have to admit I was quite tempted to answer the one I received today that identified itself on my caller ID as “Phone Scam”.</p>
<p>That’s classic! I wonder if they did that deliberately in order to get people to answer out of curiosity.</p>
<p>I wondered that. Or some employee with a guilt complex put the ID on. I resisted. I am sure if they call back when my husband is around he will answer it. Poor them, he can keep those people on the phone for ever until they are so confused they are the ones trying to get away.</p>
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<p>That’s one of those little things that, if true, would make me feel a little better about the world.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what recourse we have against someone who’s clearly from overseas and is calling our do-not-call number, presumably with VoIP? DW and I have tried good cop, bad cop, phone-unattended-cop, you name it, but we can’t even get blocked out of a specific company there, let alone everyone. </p>
<p>One of them did try an interesting scam, though, when I did a good-cop and politely asked to be taken off his company’s list. He said he had the ability to get us off all calls orginating from his country, but we had to give him a code that would he dialed in to us. Out of curiosity, I agreed, and he appears to have made a call tying my number to craigslist because I got a code from them to verify my number that this guy then called to try to get. Apparently verified craigslist numbers command a five or ten buck bounty that he wanted in lieu of whatever he was pushing.</p>
<p>I just don’t answer numbers I don’t know. If they start to leave a message and it is someone I do want to talk to (rarely if I don’t know the number/person on the ID), then I pick up.</p>
<p>My husband on the other hand answers an keeps them talking for hours. It entertains him, confuses them, and they don’t usually call back. Example when the credit card scam people call - “what type of credit card do you have?” " “a plastic one” “but what type?” “it’s green” - he can keep it up for much longer than they can.</p>