I have gotten fewer spam messages when I respond with other spam messages I have received. They think they got another spam number and remove it. If its a call, sometimes Ill answer, and mute the line so they cannot hear anything. I just wait it out, I don’t get repeat calls after a few of those. if the person setting up the call system is caused any form of financial damage or risk for me tying up their lines, and costing them both literal money per minute as well as missed opportunity to scam some old person, I don’t mind doing a little here and there. As a treat.

Ill be honest. Reading it all the way through was a challenge in critical cringe management even being certain it was a joke.

The agent wrote like it scraped a bunch of crime drama in addition to stolen database code. As though it was designed to spice things up based on what it learned.