I just answer the phone with, "Newcomb County Fraud Division, how can I help you?"
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I rarely get spam with a human on the other end. It is always the computer calling and it requires me to push buttons to drop to the call center where all of the mischief can take place.
I have not proof but the computer dialers that call my hose don't see me have my "history". When I do push buttons to get live people on the line, the calls are almost always quickly terminated. I suspect that the screen that comes up when the call is routed to the call center DOES have my historical information. They know that I will do a ranger of things with a live caller, all of them bad and they just hang up on me. Now if I could just get them to use that information to feed their dialer software, they wouldn't call me.