Does this ever work on you?

[Scrapr ★]

get a call on your phone from an unknown number....likely a spam call. I pick up...first thing I hear is "Please don't hang up"

boom....hang up. Then blocked & deleted

how can this ever work? 

[Ralphie ★]

I never get that far.

[JerrySTL ★]

I seldom pick up on an unknown number. If important they will leave a voice mail.

[Scrapr ★]

9 minutes ago, JerrySTL said:

I seldom pick up on an unknown number. If important they will leave a voice mail.

I only pick up because I get a few work calls. It will probably take another year or 2 before those stop

[Longjohn ★]

I got a call from an 800 number yesterday. They left a voicemail wanting me to return my heart monitor. How fast do they think the US Postal service is? I sent it out on Monday the 28th of June. My last day to use it was Friday the 25th.

[2Far ★]

Yeah, either the monitoring company or the doc office are calling me every day with a different number each time. Otherwise it’s “don’t know, don’t answer”. 

[Zephyr]

My number comes up as a blocked number, so it is not unusual for it to be not answered when I call.  If I dont mind them having my number I will leave a call back number, if I dont want them have it, I leave a message telling them I will call back or I just call and call until they answer

[groupw]

I answer calls on my work cell, because I never know. Usually just hang up. One time a guy called me back. He said "did you just hang up on me?" I replied, "I don't know. Did it sound like this?" (click)

[groupw]

I did get 2 voicemails a couple weeks ago from an Italian phone number. Said press a number or I would face legal action. Nothing on who they represent or what I was being prosecuted for. Thought it was an awful lazy scam...

[maddmaxx ★]

1 hour ago, Longjohn said:

I got a call from an 800 number yesterday. They left a voicemail wanting me to return my heart monitor. How fast do they think the US Postal service is? I sent it out on Monday the 28th of June. My last day to use it was Friday the 25th.

By stressing you out they are attempting to drum up business.

[Zealot]

I don’t answer a phone unless I recognize the number. And if so recognize it, most likely it’s already programmed in. Beyond that, leave a message. 

[Dottleshead ★]

2 minutes ago, Zealot said:

I don’t answer a phone unless I recognize the number. And if so recognize it, most likely it’s already programmed in. Beyond that, leave a message. 

It's good policy.  I usually follow this.  But sometimes curiousity gets the best of me.  I'll give them my checking account and routing numbers and even my Visa -- but I refuse to give them my social security number.  I mean, what kind of numbskull do they think I am??

[ChrisL]

3 hours ago, groupw said:

I answer calls on my work cell, because I never know. Usually just hang up. One time a guy called me back. He said "did you just hang up on me?" I replied, "I don't know. Did it sound like this?" (click)

I have a company phone as well and do get frequent calls from alarm company monitoring centers so I generally answer but every once in a while it’s a cold call from some firmtryung to sell me something. 

 I have one retail location in Ukiah CA and had to hire a local alarm firm.  The other day I got a call from Ukiah so figured it was that alarm company so answered.  It was some security related vendor who was cold calling me and for some reason the number came up from there.

My response must have unnerved them as after they said who they were & what they were peddling they apologized for calling and hung up…

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

7 hours ago, Scrapr said:

first thing I hear is "Please don't hang up"

I say 'OK' then put the phone down and walk away.

 

[groupw]

A few years before Dad passed and in a better frame of mind, he would have fun with them. One time he let a lady go through her entire spiel. At the end he said he was real interested but wanted to think about it. Could he get her home number so he could call her back when he decided. 
She was taken aback and said she couldn’t give him that information. 
Dad: what’s the matter don’t you trust me?

Lady: it’s not that, but…,

Dad: we’ll I thought we had a good relationship. I trust you. I just want to talk to you directly. 
 

Lady:I know….. I just don’t think that…

Dad: well you think about it. If you are ready to give me your number, call me back. 

[jsharr ★]

I lead them on.  Ask questions.  Tell them about my 1976 Nova or my goiter or witness to them.

 

If it is the IRS scam I tell them they have called the internet crime division of the local police.

 

 

[Further]

A guy at work plays them like a fiddle, the time he got the Sears guy going on about sex attachments for a reciprocating saw was priceless 

[Bikeguy]

Now that I'm retired...  If I receive a call that doesn't match one of my contacts, I don't answer.  If they don't leave a message, it's blocked.

If I'm expecting a call, from someone not in my contacts, I'll answer.   They get several seconds to identify themselves, if they fail that test... click, and blocked.

When I worked... I needed to answer all of the calls.  Most were business, some were spam, but not as many spam calls that I receive now.

[Ralphie ★]

I don’t know why my wife keeps answering.  Once someone said they were Comcast and offered her a great rate after a long time on the phone, but then he blew it  by asking her to go buy several visa gift cards. So at that point all their hard work and time spent fell apart.