No, it would not help. If it's not a recorded message, then a real person doesn't care at all. If you even answer, you signal to the crooks that you're "live" and get your number sold to more sucker lists.

Haven't had that one yet. If they do call, you can be sure that I won't answer the phone. They can waste their time, but they aren't going to waste mine.

The latest ones I'm getting are from debt collectors with a number to call about what I owe. Yeah, right. People actually in debt must fall for this and then the crooks prey on them further. People who owe money have no way to know these are scammers. It's a shame.

Marilyn, you crack me up!

I had gotten these calls about a year or two ago and then they stopped. Just started again. Somehow they go right to voicemail. I get the call a few times a week. It is imperative that you call this number to discuss. So obnoxious, (and I never had student loans!!!)

I'm always happy when they call about my students loans or my pc having a virus because I know neither of those things can be true. I'm pretty good about just hanging up as soon as it something I know doesn't concern me. I don't trust anybody calling about anything that concerns money.

Marilyn, I love your response. Good one!

and I never had student loans

me either. one I told I flunked out of college!

and I get calls to renew the warranty on my car - my 23 yo car! lol!

I have been getting calls for John A Hargraves. I have told them over and over, wrong number, so I started sending texts with a long, drawn out story about John Hargraves, every time I get a call. I got one today, and the lady on the phone asked me if I knew where John Hargraves was. I said, no, but I wish I knew because I get calls about him all the time. Then she got really snotty with me and said she would remove my phone number, but she said it in such a nasty way, and hung up. So when she hung up, I sent her a text. I hope she got it.

I said I had lied, I really was his sister, and told her he was hiding out in Mexico, in Teocaltiche, and was running guns and drugs (fentanyl), but our 85 year old mother who lived in assisted living in Kingsville, Texas knew where he was because he paid her bills, and I sort of hoped they didn't find him because I couldn't afford to take on her expenses. I said I had seen him at Christmas when mother and I went to Golden Corral restaurant with him, and he had plastic surgery to change his looks and now has a big hook nose and his eyes look funny like he might have had some work done on them. He dyed his hair black and he had gained a lot of weight, although he carried it well because he is 6'7" and weighs 320 lb. I said he had two armed body guards, a black guy named Solomon Washington and a Mexican named Juan Alvarez Mejia. I said while in Texas he bought six pit bull dogs. Brutus is the blue gray one, and Killer is black with white on his chest and paws, and Little Mama is one of the red ones, but I can't remember the name of the other ones.

I tried to make it as long and as detailed as I could, but I had to cut it short because I got a phone call. If anyone thinks I am awful for this....save it. I am tired of being bothered. Especially today and I answered and was polite and the woman calling was very rude to me.

Marilyn that is hilarious!!!!!

marilyn_c - Love it!!! LOL

The calls really have gotten so bad! I have a smart phone so it pops up and tells me who is calling even if they aren't in my contacts.

If I don't recognize the number, I don't answer. I either screen the call (kind of like old school answering machines where I can listen in and pick up the call if I need to) or let it go straight to voicemail.

I screened a call a few weeks ago from an unknown number, turned out to be someone affiliated with one of my daughters extracurriculars.

I've had to remove my mom as the emergency contact for my daughter's after I found out that she had gotten one too many scam calls and decided to set her (not smart) phone to only accept calls from her contacts.

She seemed non-plussed when I informed her that, with her phone that way, she would never get a call about her granddaughters...but she didn't change it so I removed her from the emergency contact list(s).

I've gotten two letters from Credit Management trying to collect a debt on Ambit Energy. The first letter I threw away, got another one in the mail today and I'm going to call Ambit Energy on Monday, not Credit Management. Ambit Energy is an electricity company in Texas, not in Kansas and they are wanting $411.32. I'm guessing its a scam, but I want to make sure that Ambit Energy is not confusing us with another customer. Anyone heard of either of these companies?

I think that the back brace, Medicare scam, outfit has given up on me, finally!

Marilyn_c you are a hoot, and what an imagination!

Wanttoretire, I am hoping to get another call. I want to add to my story.

Got a call at 5:05 this evening. CID said (our local hospital). DH is having an endoscopy soon, so of course I answered. Some robo garbage about our great credit history, so I hung up. This is the second call allegedly from the hospital. I called security there and gave them the calling number. He said they have had several reports of that and are investigating. It never ends.......

I just read an article in Washington Post about hospitals having robo calls that appear to be from the hospital itself. Of course if a doc or nurse see a call from "somewhere" in the hospital they pick up. Apparently some patients are also getting the calls. I hope they can track these idiots down.