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I don't get many of these anymore. Every time I do I pick up and harass them. Then I keep calling back for as long as the number works.
by behringer 7y ago
I don't get many of these anymore. Every time I do I pick up and harass them. Then I keep calling back for as long as the number works.
- CamperBob2 7y agoThat's no more effective than replying to spam.
- dmoy 7y agoIt is slightly more effective than replying to spam emails because you tie up their human capital dealing with you. It's not a lot more effective though.
- unishark 7y agoIt also drains their money since they pay per minute for the call the longer you can string them along.
- beatgammit 7y agoThat doesn't sound like a worthwhile use of time though. What would be cool is if we could transfer the call to a robo responder and have it be smart enough to act like a really dumb person.
- roywiggins 7y agoYou technically can! Meet Lenny. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RRhRImp6kKQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RRhRImp6kKQ
- sixstringtheory 7y agoWonder if something like GPT-2 could be trained to do something like this?
- bonestamp2 7y agoIt should also learn the caller's speech and slowly overtime change it's own voice to sound more and more like the caller. Eventually the caller would be talking to themself... same accent, cadence, vocabulary, etc. LOL
- overcast 7y agoLenny rocks. The current record in our office is 13:47 - we couldn't believe it either.
- asdff 7y agothey have proper robocalls too. "This is the IRS speaking" in a voice about as authoritative as Microsoft Sam.
- behringer 7y agoI like to think they put me on an actual do not call list since I tie up and annoy their operators for as long as possible. One time getting the same guy a dozen times before he finally gave up and from what I can guess just went on a long lunch lol.
- whyaduck 7y agoI accidentally called one back a few days ago and incoming robocalls have gone through the roof. I have no proof that that's why, but I won't rule it out. On a more positive note, Hiya has been working really well identifying spam/robocalls, so I don't actually pick them up.
- other_herbert 7y agoAnecdotally I've had a fairly large uptick in the frequency of spam calls lately... I don't think it's anything you've done
- bonestamp2 7y agoSame, although none today. I wonder if this lawsuit shut them up for now?
- dredmorbius 7y agoCausality is likely coincidental. Robocalls generally seem to be going through the roof.
- sershe 7y agoAnecdotally, I've noticed a decrease since a few months ago (my call blocker log shows 1 call in all of January) and I've been picking up, striking up a conversation for 10-15 seconds then continuing the same with hardcore insults in a relaxed, deadpan manner, as if we were still discussing their IT assistance/credit card "refund"/cruise/security system offer. If they start yelling I just hang up. Some people try to keep selling me their crap, that is funny; I've got quite a few stunned silences punctuated by huffs and puffs, and I made one scammer sob, that was great (I guess whatever I told him about his call center job was accidentally well targeted); so it's also great entertainment and takes very little time, you can have them on speakerphone and keep working/reading/working out/etc.
- swish_bob 7y ago"Are your parents proud of what you do for a living?" is quite effective.
- smn1234 7y agobut you're savvy to this attack. The majority of victims aren't
- request_id 7y agoI get several a day from spoofed numbers. How do you call them back?