True. But, it doesn't work for spammers/scammers/robocallers. I get calls for deceased people every week. With the "live" scammers, mostly with Indian accents, I tell them the person they're calling for is deceased and the same scam organization will still call again the next week.Dantrithor wrote:That's not always accurate. If it is a legit commercial call, even if undesired, a better approach would be to reply and say the person they have asked for is deceased....Morkonan wrote:Just a tip(s):
The best thing to do is not to answer. If you answer, it's one way that they know it's a good number.
For legit call-centers, it's true that telling them the person is deceased will likely make them scrub the number. But, often these guys are doing contract work and they're contractually obligated to call those numbers, since their source was the contracting customer in the case of an existing customer-contact info. So, they may not want to scrub that number, depending upon their performance requirements and the customer they're contracted to.
It's all about whatever it is they've been contracted to do and to report as well as any procedures they've agreed to, I suppose.
But... "Microsoft" keeps calling me, telling me a dead person's computer has a "virus" no matter how many times I tell them the person is dead.
(One of my numbers belonged to a dead person.)
