7/29/16 12:46 PDT Yet another unidentified caller who left no message. Starting to block automatically if they can't be bothered to ID and/or leave message.
The old "contractor is going to be in your neighborhood" scam. I answer all the calls and string them along as far as I can. This guy might have recognized my voice from a previous call. He said the phone was cutting out and hung up. Maybe he'll get the idea that it's a waste of their time to call me, and actually put me on their no call list. But then again, they probably don't even have one.
In stringing them along, I eventually tell them that I need to meet them at a Starbucks a mile away before letting them come to my house. Of course that's always against their policy and the call usually ends soon after that. I was able to ask one caller how she'd like it if people kept calling to try to scam her elderly relatives, the ones that she liked. She tried to fluff it off, but maybe she has a conscience and will think about it later.
This caller number was busy every time I redialed it, of course. However it did take longer than usual to give the busy signal, possibly because the phone was being routed through multiple connections to prevent tracing.