Some things I just don’t understand.

Every day, I get anywhere up to a dozen calls on my cell phone, supposedly from numbers in
my area code (but not in my contacts list), each of them a recorded message inviting me to
take action on either student loan or credit card debt forgiveness.

There are only two unique calls. The numbers they come from differ – they’re being spoofed from
overseas – but it’s one of the same two messages every time. And they always leave a voice mail for me –
because the robo-calls can’t identify the fact that there’s not a real person who answered.

If I answer the call, and ask o be put on the Do Not Call list, I get hung up on – immediately.
If I try to return the call at a later time, it invariably turns out that the number is not in service.

The stupid here is this – I can not for the life of me figure out what the business model here is.

The idea, obviously, is to get me to sign up for some sort of service, which will cost me money and likely not deliver any tangible results. I understand that.

But if I’ve answered the phone, declined the service, and asked not to be called again, what’s the benefit in re-calling?

If I’ve failed to sign up for the service after the 100th, 200th, and 500th call, what is the point in placing the 101st, 201st, 501st, and 1000th calls?

Every chance I get (i.e., when I’m bored or particularly annoyed), I WILL answer these calls, and I will press “4” or whatever digit gets me to a live operator, and do what I can to waste as much of their time as possible. But I’ve found that the more I do that, the more frequent the robo-calls become.

And again, what’s the logic behind THAT? I’ve just answered your call – why would you then go and call me back with the same offer at a higher frequency?

It seems pretty stupid to me. But I’ve yet to figure out a way to stamp this particular stupidity out …