Missed the call on my phone. Two minutes later the same number calls my wife's phone. I answer and a lady with a foreign accent told me my number was selected to win 25,000 dollars. I inturruped and said the number was on the do not call list and that I was reporting them. They hung up. I called back and get just a few beeps.
Best thing is NOT to just yell at them and hang-up. What I do (I am retired so I have time), is go along with whatever they are saying. Act excited, act like this is the best day. Let the call drag on for however long you can. If they need credit card numbers and names, make one's up I use Hugh Jasshole, or Anita [***], Eaten Beaver, whatever... Then when I give them a CC# I make it up. I act confused, Why is not working, I call for my wife, she isn't answering, I ask caller to hold on a moment, I take phone with me and keep calling aloud for wife, Oh Know I find wife, unconscious, or cheating on me with another man, or taking a [***]. I make a whole scene, I yell scream, Then while this is happening, i'm still asking them details on their "deal", I get them to hang-up on me. I have had supervisors come on the phone, managers, whomever. I make a whole deal of it. So much more fun when they have to hang up on you after wasting 15min upselling and believing they have a sell on their hands. Alternatively, when I know they are calling, I'll pick up like I have called them. I am trying to sell them sweaters, I go on and on about the sweaters, please buy my sweater, I have these sweaters, I have a deal on the sweaters, you are the lucky winner in my contest with sweaters....etc etc, works every time.
I wish these A..holes would quit calling. I get 3 or 4 of these every day lately. I wouldn't do business with them, whatever they are selling, under any circumstances. 419eater has a good idea, but I just want them to go away!!!!