If Your Name Is Bob I'll eat my hat and by the way what's the weather like in India today?

Nothing against India or the Indian people. I know everyone needs a job but, for the love of Vishnu, STOP CALLING ME!

I have been called by Bob, Paul and John many times telling me they are with Dell Tech Support and that my computer sent them a message it was in bad shape. My computer? The one I don't have hooked up to the internet? It reached out to your company asking you to call me with a fake name and tell me how f*cked up a Dell Computer is these days? Uhhh...no. Once the ridiculous pitch is delivered I usually very calmly state
"Look,
1) Your name isn't John or Mike or Mark or Larry (Prakash maybe?)
2) You don't work for Dell
3) My computer can't/doesn't/won't talk to you.
4) I have 3 Dell computers and they told me you are full of shi....
By 4 they are already gone. They clicked off to scam another possibly more gullible elderly person.

I now yell into the phone as soon as I hear the fake name "So Mike, hows the weather in your country?
I hear India is hotter than hell this time of year". They're gone before I can get it all out. Another one of my ploys is to respond to the entire call with gibberish. It's easy and fun. Phone rings and the caller ID alerts to the call being potential spam (not being able to identify the number works too). I then respond to their greeting thus, "Allo? Bushargondimaditoma? Ganno tomindocarombitcha! NO! No! your dirty rotten mutha...)" Long gone by then. It's a blast. I've had them call back use a different fake name so I simply repeat till they're completely exhausted.
I haven't done it yet, but it is coming. I am buying one of those air horns you hear at football games. I  will wait for one of the bastards to call and I will let it go!

I don't know if this going on world wide but in the US they are now tricking the system into showing your cell phone a local number when they call. In my case it not only had my area code but the prefix of my actual number. Talk about insidious.

I was picking on India call centers but now I have been called repeatedly out of California by someone speaking Spanish! WTF is that about? I have repeatedly yelled in his ear that I don't speak "Espanish"!
They hang up...and call back the next day.

Does anyone actually succumb to these phishing scammers tactics? I guess they do. If it wasn't profitable it would stop. Cell phones suck and if I had my way we would have no advertising or sales pitches allowed via the phone!

Yup! I'm mad as hell and am not going to take it anymore! As if I could stop the onslaught.
At least I can dream can't I.