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Have you heard of the "It's Lenny" bot? https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/ https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/ It's meant to keep telemarketers on the phone an
by ChristianBundy 10y ago
Have you heard of the "It's Lenny" bot?
https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/ https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
It's meant to keep telemarketers on the phone and waste their time, but it sounds like someone was using something similar for international phone fraud.
- fisherjeff 10y agoGreat link, although Lenny has now wasted my time too.
- Humdeee 10y agoGoldmine. I just listened to a call where Lenny put the telemarketer on hold for a 2nd time to quiet his ducks. It's amazing how getting telemarketers to repeat themselves for the fifth time to a bumbling old man really takes the optimism out of their voice.
- zeroer 10y ago> Lenny put the telemarketer on hold for a 2nd time to quiet his ducks That's all of them (if the marketer stays on long enough).
- CamperBob2 10y agoThis makes me want to create an Eliza implementation that's optimized to waste as much telemarketing time as possible. All that would be needed is a phone that lets you write your own telephony application and use it to answer calls.
- amingilani 10y agoSimilar and much more polished is the Jolly Roger Telephone Company: http://www.jollyrogertelco.com http://www.jollyrogertelco.com