With the telemarketers, they have to go through various different companies to get access to phone numbers to eventually call you. The numbers are always different and are constantly being renewed.
The best way to fuck with them is to keep them on the line for as long as possible. Pass them off fake credit card numbers, and when they don't work, tell them that your partner will be back in about 10 minutes, and they have the credit card. Just keep talking bullshit to them, and keep them on line. The longer they are talking to you, the less time they have talking to people who will actually fall for this scam.
Personally, I think we should just block ALL calls from India. That'd solve everyone's problems. If they route the service through another country, that country is also blocked.
inb4: you can't do that. I know, I'm just taking a piss.
Yeah, but if it was normal that you landline base station had an ethernet jack or wifi and could be configured from the handset to use lists on the internet and update live, and eveyone did that, they couldn't call 10 people without that number being burned. If you get 10 negative reports within 10 minutes it's pretty easy to differentiate that. Are they really going to buy a new number (DID is the technical term) every 10 calls?
Or better yet looking at my own hardware it looks like my phone is originating from my router. All the needed hardware already exists and is common. It's a software problem. Someone just needs to make the service holding the lists, and software for it on the router needs to be common.
Then you just use a web interface provided by your router on any device in your house to configure and report, or you just press some digits on your phone and the router understands those tones mean report the call.
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