I usually don’t answer or just say I’m not interested and hang up. But my teen answers with the oldie but goody, “roadside diner, you kill we grill.” The trouble is, it’s almost always a robot these days.

Any time I hear a south Asian or Indian accent I hang up immediately.

DOOO NOT REEEEDEEEEEMM

Check out Jim Florentine’s terrorizing telemarketers on YouTube.

I have learned lots of words in other languages so I can go at them.

My friend does a range of random responses. Sometimes he's Detective Ellison investigating a murder, sometimes he's a dry cleaner. . . . he toys with them as they try to do their pitch and then he yells at them.

If it pops up as a telemarketing call, I answer "Quahog Sperm Bank. Are you calling to jack 'em or us to pack 'em?"
They usually just hang up.

People are literally kidnapped to work as scam callers in scam call factories in east Asia. Usually the criminal organizations are Chinese mafia.

Yes, I DO feel bad for the people who are enslaved to work like this for nothing because they were lured to Thailand or someplace, and had their passports confiscated, and they get beaten if they don't make quota.

So I just hang up.

Act like I’m having an O.

I pretended to be very concerned about unpaid taxes. I got the caller's name etc so I could return his call. He kept amping up the trouble I was in. I told him I would have my lawyer call to figure things out ASAP.

He started swearing and hung up on me. I haven't had that call since.

I have deep anxiety about this so it all makes me uncomfortable.

Pretend to be having sex with lots of moans and screaming -- they are usually so upset that they cut me off fast. Then I block and send to DNC list

Back in the 80's there were tele marketers that would record your answers. If you kept talking they kept recording. My uncle kept a Bible next to the phone and would open it randomly and start reading. 29min was his record.

I was a theatre minor; always had a gift for voice acting, characterization and improv.

I try to keep scammers on the line for as long as possible and have the most success portraying myself as a hearing impaired elderly lady (my late mom).

Also great fun to pit several scammers against each other; I’ll add them to a conference call and they’ll go round and round saying hello and interrupting each other. Today I had 4 on the line from the same company- just would hold then redial and the craziness begins.

Answer and pretend to be a s*x phone line and inform them they are being charged $99/minute.