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My response to these types of calls is "oh Goodie a scammer" and then I call out to the Mrs to tell her we have a scammer on the line even if she is not there. They usually hang up.
We get one scammer a week now. Usually Indian accent and from Microsoft and reporting my computer has been hacked. Everyone knows that one. Annoying but fun if you make it that way.
Another cool one is to let them think you are genuinely worried and sit there whilst they describe what is going to happen to you or is happening to your computer etc and let them walk you through doing stuff on your computer all the while just doing something else. After some time they work out that you are not doing what they are asking and either hang up or ask you if you are actually doing it. I then say no I am not and I just wanted to see how gullible you were. That usually ends with a click on the line.
Being on the do not call register does not stop scammers. It just stops Australian cold callers.
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