New phone thing?

This has happened twice now. I am assuming the company is less than honest, seeing as I am on the Do Not Call list.

I get a call at home. A voice that might be human or might be a recording of a human asks "Is this Erica?"

When I bite and say "yeeesss...." it says something like "Do you want help in reducing unsecured debt?" (or somesuch). The first time I was annoyed and told it "I HAVE NO DEBT" (which is true. I don't). The second time I just hung up.

But is this a new thing? Instead of merely robocalling people, robocalling people with a voice-activated computer program?

If I'm not caught off-guard again (I often am on the phone because I tend to hate the phone), I think I'm going to try going "pffffpffffpfffft" like Flufflepuffs when it asks "Is this Erica" and just continue to make borderline-rude noises into the phone.

But yeah. You can press *69 to do a callback, what do you press to send a Howler to the telemarketer that will scream in their face NEVER CALL THIS NUMBER AGAIN!!!!!