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I started answering scam calls. And pressing 1 when it said so to speak with someone about my microsoft account, apple account, car warranty, etc. And telling the person on the other end to kindly fuck off. After a few rounds of this, the calls stopped calling, as I'd gotten on enough of the spammer blacklists of someone who will waste their time. It took a while to build up the courage to do so, but I'm glad I did, because when the phone rings now, I can be reasonably assured that it's someone who I actually want to talk to.

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Do one better, get their contact info and then sue. They are all breaking some law, so once you have their info it is easy to win in court.

You pretty much need to be a lawyer to pull the above off.

>Do one better, get their contact info and then sue. They are all breaking some law, so once you have their info it is easy to win in court.

Since most scam/spam calls have spoofed caller iD, how do you obtain such contact information?

Do tell. I have time on my hands, so I'd love to take this route.

They need to give you information on how to send your payment that works, so you need to lead them on until they give you that information. Once you have that you have a place that really exists, and courts can go from there.

>They need to give you information on how to send your payment that works,

As a general rule, if they don't have you buy gift cards (as someone else suggested), they want your credit card details which they check immediately upon receiving them.

What's more, I'm not exactly sure how I might engage the courts in Kolkatta, Bangalore or Minsk. Perhaps you could share your (obvious) expertise in this matter.

It would be greatly appreciated.

Generally there is a US company behind them someplace. though if it is a foreign company it won't work (well I'm not an international lawyer, maybe there is something)

>Generally there is a US company behind them someplace.

Is there? What evidence do you have for that?

They tell you to buy a bunch of gift cards at the grocery store and then read the number off the card over the phone. How do you successfully sue them with that information?

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