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It’s amusing at best and maybe it wastes the scammers some money (nothing compared to what they extract from their victims), but I still don’t see how it’s worth anybody’s time to do this unless they can get the bot to start wiping database tables or something more destructive.
Just talk to it for a second. You can potentially ask for it to carry on a conversation with itself.
Only while I keep it on the line and let it do that.
If you're not using a lot of bandwidth, you can undercut them using recorded demands.