How have you dealt with scam callers?

I have always been wary of giving my phone number to sites such as Amazon because your info is shared to third parties. These 'third parties' could include hackers who can use your number to get personal info to convince your phone carrier to transfer your number to their SIM card and bypass the two factor authentication over your accounts. Clever.

A girl at the other end with more accent than dialogue (they are usually Indian) asked me how I was this evening -which is a dead giveaway as to what is to come. She then proceeded to waffle on without pausing to hear my reply.

"I'm calling you from ???????". And I would tell you if I could have understood her so in the end I pressed block and ended it. But there have been quite a few of them.

One thing that I didn't know about is 'one ring' scams where scammers call and hang up after one ring, hoping you will be curious and call back a premium rate number which charges you international rates that go straight to the scammers.