I've really enjoyed the videos of James Veitch on annoying scanners. Especially this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MHDDSekvcE. The scammer wants him to contact this "bank" and open an account. He than makes up, that he read somewhere that you get a free toaster with any new account. He than goes on and on about the free toaster until the scanner asks him to stop emailing him.

By educating and helping your friends and neighbors about how they operate to denying them victims

Tell them to contact you in ways they're not designed to, maybe stretch them thin in the process.

The addresses they'll send are mostly shipping companies that take stuff and ship them directly to another country. Check their address, you'll very likely see such a building that advertises to ship stuff.

Reminds me of a presentation I saw a few months ago by netsafe which is an new zealand non profit that has an ai driven system to keep scammers busy. You can try it out or learn more about it here: https://rescam.org/

I think I saw a video of someone using ChatGPT voice feature and hand it over to the scammer, who thought they're dealing with a real person.

Like this

Block them and move on. Half of scamming is getting money. The other half is trolling by wasting the target's time.

I get it though. These assholes piss everyone off. Wanna counter them? Get really good at a hobby. Fall in love. Make a fuck ton of money. Etc.

Wasting even a moment of your time on these pieces of shit is time you aren't doing the above. Don't let them take from you that which you owe yourself