DH and I simply pretend to be old deaf people and wait for them to hang up.

I just pick up and say nothing.

We stop answering the phone years ago. We have kept the land lines but just don't answer them.

I ask the scammers if their mother knows what they do for a living. One replied, "yes, she taught me everything I know about how to do this."

When I used to try to engage them with some type of act, they quickly begin to use some pretty disturbing language, like frightening actually, so now I just hang up.

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.