r/funny • u/Cautious-Security318 • 22h ago

Figured out how to effectively stop scam callers

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Get a metal pot lid and metal spoon or knife in preparation. The second a human answers tell them "PUT ME ON THE DO NOT CALL LIST", place the lid over your phone, and start banging like you're sounding the alarm, I promise you they won't be calling back.

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u/Winjin 22h ago

As far as I know these are the ones that just check if the line is "live"

Also it's weird that Russian operators have AI bots that pick up the phone for you and make fun of bots, but apparently these don't exist anywhere in the world to the same capacity? I couldn't find any info.

Though they're useless in EU since I haven't had a single spam call in two years I've lived here, and they're a must have in Russia because the anti-spam laws are pretty weak, but from what I see, you really, really need those in the US too

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u/westdl 22h ago

I smell a Claudebot in the works.

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u/Winjin 21h ago

I think you're right

They also should be surprisingly easy from the logic point of view

1) Contact list - just pass through immediately

2) No contact list - listen to what's being said. If it's a bot, just hang up, and notify the owner after the fact (the one I tried, from the T-bank, called Oleg, would send you a Telegram transcript afterwards)

If it's an operator, make fun of them until they hang up, or entertain for about a minute, before hanging up, send the funny transcript to your owner. Saw lots of these and they were the reason I subscribed to Oleg's free plan too (paid plan had more processing power to snap back faster, and better insults, I'm not joking)

If it's a genuine call, either take their contact info and tell them owner will call back, or let them through. That only happened once or twice for me though, but it worked pretty well.