Confirmed: You should never hang up on spam calls immediately, this is what is triggered without you realizing it.

In recent years, telephone spam has become one of the biggest annoyances for citizens, even though it has been regulated by law for some time now, so in principle it should have ceased to be a nuisance to users.

But the truth is that, although to a lesser extent, many users continue to receive unsolicited commercial calls , and many times it is due to how we act and what we do while browsing the Internet that causes this nuisance to continue to be present in our lives.

This is on the one hand because many times by accepting cookies or the terms and conditions of a website or app without reading them completely, we accept that the brand in question calls us , although this is not always the case and there are companies that, even knowing that it is illegal, dial numbers randomly to try to sell you something.

An unknown number is not synonymous with a SPAM call or a scam , and although our own phones now have the technology to detect when an incoming call could be of this type and warn you before picking it up, we often end up answering and it turns out they are trying to sell us a promotion or a service.

Faced with this situation, many people act the same way and hang up immediately without giving the callers a second longer . But the truth is that, while this may be the best thing for us all to do, it can backfire and lead to continued calls from other numbers, or even from the same one if we haven't blocked it.

And instead of hanging up immediately, more and more experts are pointing out that it's better to interact briefly to indicate that you're not interested. It's important to keep in mind that today, many of these types of calls are made by machines powered by Artificial Intelligence . While these machines are capable of understanding what you say and responding accordingly, they don't understand the meaning of you hanging up on them like a person does.

And when you hang up on them immediately, the machine interprets your number as "potentially receptive," making them much more likely to call you back. Aside from this, when answering these types of calls, it's also important not to provide personal information such as your full name, address, or banking details . Any information shared could be used for commercial or even fraudulent purposes.