"Can I have your Credit Card number please?"
Over the last month or two I've found that this results in an instant "click" and silence - these scammers seem to have been taught to give up with this reply.
I also use the same technique with many other callers, explaining this is a pay-for number and it seems to work reasonably well. Endless opportunity to wind-up persistent callers by telling them how much of a bill they have already run up etc.
Previously a discussion of the caller's sexual preferences and why they are calling me if not to arrange some homosexual liaison have proved amusing, but lasts far longer than I expected or had time for - persistent buggers they are!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
