# Should I waste a telephone spammer's time

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 13, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-waste-a-telephone-spammers-time/821292 "2018-09-13T19:36:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-waste-a-telephone-spammers-time/821292/12 "2018-09-13T20:55:53Z")

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> [@ivylass](#):
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> I got a Windows call last week. I thought that scam had gone by the wayside. I was quite blunt and used expletives in telling the scammer he should seek other employment.

I got one group of them to stop calling by being uncooperative enough to end up talking to a supervisor. I asked her which computers. “All of them,” was the reply.

“Even the really old ones that aren’t connected to the Internet?”

:pause:

“Sorry for bothering you.” _click_

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