Recorded calls - - penalty?

My wife said I could go to jail for what I say to these people.

I told her I would be a millionaire off a go fund me account.

My fav was the woman that said she did not appreciate my profanity. I told her, "If you do not like my profanity, don't f****ng call me."

Then there was the lady that snarkily said, "Oh, you do not want me calling you?"

To which I said, "Either that or shove the phone up your ass."

Hey, we could be cell mates! At 8:05 yesterday morning a woman told me I was rude.

She wanted to hook me up with solar panels and said "I'll be brief" so in turn I said I'd be brief too. "f*ck off"

Grumpy Old Men .. :-) I must live a charmed life - I get a real-person phone-sales call maybe every 2 or 3 weeks, if that. If it doesn't go to voicemail, I politely decline and say "Have a nice day." I once knew a nice lady who was between jobs and found work doing phone-sales - and I think of her before being rude to someone else who is forced into a crappy job to pay-the-rent.

More often it's a robo call which I let go to voicemail - < never leaving any actual message, thankfully > .. it's futile to get upset over those - carry on & be happy. John T.

The guy that sticks a gun in your ribs may be starving too but I have no sympathy.

On my cell phone, I got one that I answered, 12 that came up as "spam risk" and it is not quite 3PM yet.

Grumpy? Nah, I have the time to irritate them so while I do, they are not scamming some old lady.

That guy wouldn't make me think of my dear departed sister-in-law. It's so very easy to just say " No thanks bye bye. " John T.

Has it occurred to you that they might enjoy adding your number to _all the scam lists on the web_ because of your .. helping a little old lady ? John T.

Because they want you to waste the time of everyone else like them?

The robo dialers just do number after number. Automation at its best. Very few have any idea who they are talking to. A few will disconnect one the computer sees my number.

My landline I've had the same number for 6 years now, but a few times a week, I get calls for Dan. He is the previous person that had the number. I've made appointments for him too. Roof inspection, duct cleaning, etc. Nice guy that I am, one legitimate business called about AC service so I told them he no longer has the number and they said it would be corrected. The third time they called, weeks later, I made an appointment with them too.

Why do some of you answer calls from unknown callers? Let the call go to voice mail. Most of the scammers won't leave a message. If it's a valid call, many will. If it's an important call, they almost certainly will. Personally, I don't waste my time and adrenaline on answering calls with "unknown caller", just a city name as the caller's name, a caller's number of more than 10 digits, or a name entirely unknown to me.

Why? I often have the time to annoy the caller. No other reason.

I may have already won, from the Publisher's Clearing House.

Also, some days no one I know calls and I get lonely.

Also, I long for the days when I answsered every phone call.

That is what I do. If there is no name it goes to the answering machine. I will answer a call named Wirless Caller as that is what many cell phones seem to do.

Big + 1. Life is short - why provide free entertainment for the scammers ? .. with the rapidly leaking little time that you have left. John T.

Also, this morning I called a small museum to see if they would be open this Sunday, and at 4 she called me back. I didn't recognize the caller-ID and I'd forgotten that i called anyone. Yes, she would have left a message, but I got more info by talking to her. Yes, I could have waited until the message started and picked up then. See t4he first 3 reasons.