Reverend Conehead
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If you answer an unknown call and it is from a spammer/scammer, it validates your phone number as being "active" and then that information can be stored in a database and shared (or sold) to a lot of other spam or scam services.
Yup, better to not even answer. If you do answer by mistake, don't answer any questions, and don't even talk. Just hang up.