Not sure if it helps, but every chance I get I keep them on the line as if I was falling for it (similar to but less sophisticated than kitboga, a man who has made a career out of scamming scammers).<p>The robot callers are adapting, recently using soundboards (a legit sounding "hi this is bill." but really a sound file) and speech to text to interpret my replies and keep the happy path automated as much as possible. Do not try deviating from the program, i.e if you ask what day it is, they will detect the subversion and hang up. I use a credit card number generator to let them try over and over with bad numbers. I have heard a rumor that credit card networks charge a fee for each failed number (that passes the LUN checksum). Can anyone confirm if this is true?
FCC should require phone providers to give us all info from callers. Then we could block anyone who changes their caller ID, anyone that calls from a VOIP number, anyone who calls from outside the US, any call that has a hop that loses information, or whatever we want.
I still seem to be able to reduce my robocalls when they've increased in frequency by picking up and immediately muting my end. I think it tricks some dialer systems into thinking the line is dead or a fax/modem, because after I do this once during a spat of robocalls, they seem to stop for a time
Are telephone network providers regulated by being common carriers which disallows them to unpeer from the shady networks? Robocallers are not using AT&T or Verizon, I imagine.
I’m to the point where I just leave “Silence Unknown Callers” enabled on my phone. Before that I was getting at least 10 spam calls a day. We’re long past the point where it’s possible to accept a call from an unknown number.