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TIFU By learning some Hindi and insulting a scam caller. Now I can’t use my phone.

I’ve been getting a metric shit ton of spam calls like many of you, but this week has been absolutely insane, and I think it’s my fault for kicking the hornets nest.

I am up to 70+ scam calls a day. I learned some Hindi swear words from a friend, and chose to curse one out a few days ago back when the call list was shorter. It was fun for me. Baiting scammers. I would get to the part where they question me about my Medicare (after the AI portion/transferring please wait) and just UNLEASH with MADARCHOD, BHENCHOD, etc. I don’t feel bad about it; they scammers. Boy was that a mistake…

Just a day after, I started getting a call. Then another. Then 2 more. All with my area code, with different preceding numbers, all spoofed with voip software. All asking about my Medicare part a & b (I’m in my 30s and work for a defense contractor lol). The worst part is that I can’t even use a call filter because the numbers are all individually spoofed, so the leg work for blocking all of them would be blocking 999 different combinations of would-be number neighbors. I’m only allowed 6 prefixed to block. Even if that was physically possible, I have quite a few contacts with my area code, so it would be in vain. I’m at my wits end, but I guess it goes to show to let scamming scammers lie.

I spent all day on the phone with Verizon and they cannot assist me without me changing my number.
I’ve gotten three while typing this. Not *fully* blaming myself, as it’s not me doing the scamming, but I definitely played a part…

Tl;dr: learned Hindi to curse out scammers for fun, now I’m getting 100 spoofed calls a day and the only course of action is to change my number.

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