By responding, you've already lost 1/2 of the battle by confirming it's an active number. This makes the number worth 100x it's previous value and it's much more likely to be sold off an "active numbers" list rather than a junk list.

Just don't respond. Ever.

LPT: delete spam and scam

Just delete the messages.

Someone doesn't understand fishing for working numbers.

This doesn't even come close to being a stupid life tip.

Sadly, there are many gullible people out there. So the obvious seems easy, but to the non gifted people ( I'm assuming that's how the smart people view them) this actually helps.

I could be wrong, but I doubt it

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I get this "wrong" number once a month. I now delete. I used to respond saying wrong number. But got curious why I was getting these. Played the game and it was mostly for crypto data mining. Back to deleting.