I do not answer the long distance ones (scared the cell phone company will charge me for picking up) and will not answer numbers i do not know. evenually they don't call as often and evenually stop calling your number .. i think they have there own do not call list .....i actually hang up on them from the first /second ring.... ....I am a person that has no patients...zip.... if it is important person calling you or important call they will leave a message.... If we all hung up on them every time they called they would not go out of there way to phone ..there is other ways to advertise ..i personally believe it is a long distance scam for cell phone charges....I have been hanging up for a good year and i do not get as many calls now......
I don't keep track of unidentified numbers that call, so for all I know this is the first time they've called. No idea who is calling or what they want. When I don't recognize a number or if it says 800#, private or unknown, if I am near the phone, I simply pick it up and immediately hang up. This time I wasn't quite fast enough so my machine did answer...but of course, they hung up without leaving a message.
Called me saying they were some company that worked for windows...and my computer was sending 1000 error messages a day I asked if thats so how is it still working?
Then told them I worked for microsoft tech support and the person put a supervisior on told him the same thing
he swore at me in some [***] speak swore back and hung up
Got a person on this one saying I was getting errors on my computer and was being "hacked". After I told him I have protection he wanted to argue. Sounded like he was calling from out of the US with an accent maybe like India or West Indies. I hung up on him.