Had a call for window cleaning. I told them it was great because I had just hurt my back and my windows were filthy. Could they come by and give me an estimate...if it was reasonable I would get it done. I guess I forgot to mention I was on the 25th floor.
About 20 years ago I was getting calls on our landline (remember those? LOL) for a window installation company. They would NOT stop..and back then there was little you could do about it.
Finally I got fed up and played along one day. The salesperson thought they'd hit the jackpot as I got quotes for no less than about 30 windows in my "home". When we got to the end I asked them if the installers have REALLY big ladders. The guy assured me they did. It was that point that I told them I lived on the 6th floor so make sure they bring the REALLY long ones.
The calls stopped after that.
When we bought our house I was one of the first aboard the VoIP thing - still am to this day, actually...for the landline we haven't actually used in years, but that's another story. Subscribed to a virtual Fax (remember those? LOL) second line that was incoming only. All received faxes were digitized and emailed to me.
So, you guessed it....same crap. "DISCOUNT WINDOWS AND DOORS!". 4 or 5 feckin faxes a day, some multiple pages.
So, again, I finally played along. Got a big huge quote for all sorts of windows and doors our house didn't even have. Told them that I'd just send them a fax photo of one "really weird" window so they could look at it and quote me properly on that. Got
THEIR fax number. Promptly hung up, logged into VoIP management portal...and
redirected all their own faxes right back to their own incoming fax machine.
For years and years....every time they tried to fax-spam me,
someone...somewhere, was spamming themselves. I saw it in the call logs.