Hmm, everyone's favorite girlfriend, Raechel, with a certain scam that isn't one scammer, but a whole family of them.  I was down on getting calls from that wonderful company called cardholder services, as well as a dozen different things.  Doing a little research on line, it seems the FTC and FCC are on them, have been for a while, but the calls are back to one a day or more.

Enough compaining.  Time for actions, and it seems the FTC etc. are having a hard time getting their prison cells around these crooks.

So, logic. which tells me the operators on the other end, the scammers, are probably not using a telephone handset, more than likely, a headset.  Which would suit my purposes nicely as what I am thinking is this.

I have a very cheap wooden recorder of the musical kind, otherwise known as a fipple flute.  As are most wind instruments, the mouthpiece can be removed, which when you block the end that you took the rest out of, becomes a very shrill, very loud whistle.  I think maybe waiting for the scammer to answer, then a good long blast with that and hang up might have little effect, other than personal satisfaction of knowing what it must have been on the other end.  I've tried to keep them on the line as long as possible, but they seem to be able to learn a little, and when they don't immediately get the information they request, they hang up. 

Therefore, I shall try greeting them with a "One note sampa" of my own composition.

Oh, yeah, don't bother reporting the phone numbers, they never use one they really own and it would just be causing someone else a problem.  So, let's just have some fun with them.

Doric.

The "I" in Doric is Silent.