Most people who fall for spam and scams are vulnerable. Its better to be mad at people who make money preying on people with dementia, or by threatening scared people ("Hello I'm from the IRS.."), than it is to be mad at the people who get tricked.

When the spiffingbrit and Jim Browning fall to phone scam tricks you know we are in deep trouble....

I've compromised - Calls from numbers in contact groups get custom ringtones, but the default ringtone is just a silent .wav file.

In the last year or so, I've been seeing "Scam Likely" on scammer calls as well.

Just the same, I'd love a "dismiss with prejudice" option when I receive a call: no voicemail, just disconnect, mostly because these clowns inevitably leave a voicemail.

Isn't that just declining the call? It'll only go to voicemail if you let it ring out?

No. Your call goes to its "Call Forward – No Answer" destination, which by default is your carrier's voicemail system (it can be changed through some obscure keypad code).

I have a personal policy of actively sending people to voicemail if I can't or don't want to talk to them, mostly because I feel like making them wait 30s to find that out is a little callous.

No - there needs to be a way to report back to the carrier that this was a spammer. The carriers need to start blocking them.

In my experience, declining the call sends it straight to voicemail.