Of course I don't answer the landline if I don't know who's calling... that's like advising someone to not stand out in the middle of the golf course with a metal umbrella in a lightning storm. I have a cell phone on which most all of my contacts call me and I never get scammers on my crll. I do not wish to be bothered by the landline ringing even if it is a call that I know not to answer. And has everyone has seeded here blocking numbers it is a lesson in futility because there are apparently up to about a quarter of a million different numbers being spoofed at any one time. So on my landline I shut off the ringtone on both the handsets and the base unit. Friends and family or whomever can still leave a message and I can hear the message being recited, and I pick up the phone if I want to talk. If I miss that message my phone has the option of making a periodic beep to let me know I have a message waiting, but even that can be shut off if it bothers me.
These India motherfos, most of them operating from phone room sweatshops in the Mumbai area, sell fake Viagra and tainted drugs, often illegally offering Percocet, Vicodin, and Xanax, they pretend to be fake IRS agents threatening to arrest you for "unpaid back taxes", and they offer fake credit card services, using dozens of fake spoofed phone numbers. Their Viagra sales calls often begin with "Remember when you have ordered from us before?" to try to fool you and lure you into thinking that they are legitimate, but they say this to everyone and just want to sell you fake drugs and steal your credit card number for other unauthorized purchases. They will even offer their fake Viagra and fake Xanax for 40-cents per pill to try to get your credit card number. But once you give them your credit card number, they will charge thousands of dollars to your credit card and you never receive any of their fake drugs anyway.
For these India scammers and spammers, I prefer not to hang up quickly on them. The kindest thing that you can do to a phone telemarketer is to yell at them and quickly hang up. I like to toy with them and dangle them on the phone for as long as possible. I can usually keep an Indian idiot on the phone for at least 20 minutes, repeatedly asking questions about his fake Viagra and feigning fake interest while sounding like a senile old man with a fake Indian accent myself before he hangs up on me after sounding very frustrated. LOL! These India azzholes do not honor your repeated requests to have your number removed from their phone databases (and India scammers never use the Do Not Call Registry, which is a useless database anyway since no one honors it and no one enforces it), so the best way to persuade a telemarketer to not call you again is to toy with them and keep them on the phone for a long time. I once kept a Viagra-pushing Indian man on the phone for almost two hours, slowly bargaining prices with him about purchasing 3000 or 5000 pills before he called me a bunch of expletives and hung up. He never called back again. LOL! He did not even realize that during the two-hour phone call, I was typing on the computer and doing other work while I continued to toy with him on the speakerphone.
If the caller pretends to be a "U.S. Pharmacy" or "Canadian Pharmacy", ask the fake India pharmacy if they carry "JBB". If he asks you to spell the drug's name, spell it as japnibajabutyrate" , which means "go phukk yourself" in Hindi, with "butyrate" added on to sound like a drug name. Or ask them if they carry "TMDD". If they ask you to spell it, spell it as "terimagandirundimate", which means "your mother is a filthy hoar" in Hindi, with "mate" added on the end to make it sound like a drug. LOL!
I often toy with these India motherfos by talking to them using a fake Indian accent myself, sounding like the Apu Nahasapeemapetilon character from "The Simpsons". In fact, if they ask for my name, I call myself Yama Nahasapeemapetilon. "Yama" is the God of Death in Hindu beliefs. And I tell them that I live on 1313 Naraka Street. "Naraka" is the Hindu version of Hell, and it is where the God of Death "Yama" lives. LOL. If you want to call these India madarchods back to toy with them, it is best to phone them from a different Google Voice phone number where you can hide your real number and further block them from Google Voice.
You can drag out these phone calls and really wear down their patience and energy by faking the voice of a very old person. These scammers especially like to prey on old people because they think their senility makes them easier targets. So I pretend I am very old and hard of hearing, I purposely talk very slowly, and frequently ask them to repeat what they said and to talk louder because "my hearing aid battery needs replacement". They always work in a noisy phone room sweatshop where numerous other scammers are talking, so I also innocently ask them if they are at a party right now. LOL!!!
If you have a phone or device that can block entire ranges of phone numbers like I do, here are the area codes and phone number ranges that I block and my phones do not even ring if the phone number begins with these area codes or number patterns. Blocking each specific scam caller only helps slightly because these India motherfos quickly rotate to new phone numbers every week. But they often use phone numbers with the same area code. So if you can block entire area codes, that has a much longer-lasting effect to blocking calls from India madarchods instead of blocking each specific phone number. Obviously you need to adjust this list for your own use if you have valid callers from these area codes, or make a blacklisted area code more specific by adding specific numbers after the area code. But most people can block entire area codes from many regions of the country without missing any valid calls. I previously would get 10 to 20 scam phone calls every day. With these area codes and beginning phone numbers blocked, I now receive only two or three new scams ringing my phone every week, while all other India mothfo madarchods are quietly blocked:
00 :: Area codes do not begin with 00.
120 :: India area code.
202 :: Washington DC. Various scams, and also political survey calls.
203 :: Connecticut; Various India fake pharmacy and India fake IRS "unpaid back taxes" scams.
209 :: Stockton; India fake pharmacy scams.
210 :: San Antonio. Various India fake pharmacy scams.
212 :: New York. Various scams.
214 :: Dallas. Various India fake IRS "unpaid back taxes" or fake pharmacy scams.
215 :: Philadelphia. Medical alert scams.
216 :: Cleveland, Ohio. Various India fake pharmacy.
234 :: Akron, Ohio. Various scams.
302 :: Delaware; Various India fake pharmacy.
306 :: Saskatchewan Canada. Fake computer virus infection scam from India asking for your credit card.
312 :: Chicago. Various scams.
313 :: Michigan. Fake auto warranty scam.
315 :: Syracuse. Various India fake pharmacy and life alert scams.
330 :: Akron, Ohio. Fake computer virus infection scam from India asking for your credit card.
347 :: New York. various India fake pharmacy and medical alert scams.
407 :: Orlando, Florida. India fake pharmacy scams.
508 :: Massachusetts. India fake pharmacy scams.
520-21 :: Arizona. U.S.-based back brace advertisement.
561 :: Palm Beach, Florida. Various India fake pharmacy and medical alert scams.
575-3 :: New Mexico. Fake auto warranty scam.
602 :: Arizona. U.S.-based back brace advertisement.
623 :: Arizona. U.S.-based back brace advertisement.
646 :: New York; Various India fake pharmacy scams.
702 :: Las Vegas. Various scams.
718 :: New York City.
719 :: Colorado Springs, CO.
786 :: Miami; Various India fake pharmacy scams.
810 :: Michigan. Various India fake pharmacy and India loan scams.
844-274-1 :: Numerous India credit card and gift card scams, and India fake IRS "unpaid back taxes" scams using dozens of numbers beginning in 844-274-1.
845 :: New York. Numerous India fake pharmacy scams, India loan and credit scams.
859 :: Kentucky.
885 :: Toll-free, but not used so all numbers using this are invalid and only used by Caller ID spoofing by scammers. Valid toll-free numbers are 800, 888, 877, 866, 855, 844. 833 and 822 are reserved for future use; after these two are used up, 88x numbers will be opened for use.
914 :: New York. Numerous India pharmacy scams selling fake drugs and fake medical alert devices, with many numbers beginning as 914-943-
915 :: El Paso. Various scams.
929 :: New York. India IRS "unpaid back taxes" scam, fake pharmacy sales, fake medical alert service.
989 :: Michigan.
Ignorant [***] called me multiple times a day. I got them to stop by flipping the phone call on them. "Hey it's really great to hear from you today because we have a couple of case loads of dirty stinking gym sucks on sale! You just give me your credit card number and I'll rush them right out to you. If you wait too long the opportunity will slip past because once the socks are washed the price is going to go up. So which credit card do you want to use for this purchase?" They are going to call you for about two years before they finally give up. You might as well have some fun with them at their expense.