E.g., what’s the average return per phone call when the scammers phone me to let me know that my business isn’t being “properly listed” on google and bing. All I need is to give them my cc info and they’ll fix it for me.
I get that one nonstop.
Even if it is, when I press 1 and string their human along for a minute, that’s gotta be catastrophic to their ROI.
“Don’t hang up!!!” is my advice (and the opposite of various anti-fraud groups)
Even letting the line sit open for an extra 30s until the robocaller hangs up can multiply their costs.
I think if I can take as much of their time as possible that’s less time they have to scam vulnerable people. And it’s often good for a lark and quick break from the day.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
"False positives cause many promising detection technologies to be unworkable in practice. Attackers, we show, face this problem too. In deciding who to attack true positives are targets successfully attacked, while false positives are those that are attacked but yield nothing."