Sweden’s solution to stop spam callers: Be ruder!

Swedish police have a message for anyone who thinks they’re talking to spam callers: hang up the phone, and embrace being rude.Local authorities are teaming up with five national celebrities in a new campaign to empower people to push back against scam callers. Just like in the United States, scammers are a major issue. Polisen, Sweden’s national police force, estimates they made off with $575.3 million in ill-gotten gains in 2025 alone. And while online scams utilizing increasingly