Nice Tom. Some people like to engage the spammers in order to take up their precious time. While they are engaged with you, they can’t scam someone else. I once kept a guy on the phone for 30 min as he repeatably tried to enter my various credit card “numbers”. I don’t have time for that these days, but for those retired creekers…. Just pretend to be a fumbling fool on the call, tell them stories while you look for your information, etc. Keep that fish on the hook…

Turns out many of those scams are obvious in order to select for the most gullible (i.e. your uncle is a Nigerian Prince). The limit for scammers is how many people they can engage each day.