Jolly Roger Telephone service and how I came to fight telemarketing

... the audio footage[0] of the conversation between his bot and the telemarketeer "trapped" is just insane. Hard to stop laughing but I also feel sorry for the caller :D

Hard to stop laughing:

[0] https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/jollyrogertelephone-audio...

Edit: typos

This is quite similar to the "Lenny" Asterisk script that seems quite popular on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/

It seems that no real intelligence is required to keep telemarketers busy. A simple loop of generic answers can keep them occupied for >5min conversations.

Amusing, but I don't believe that it can disrupt their business model as claimed. What percentage of people are going to set up these bots? Unless you get the entire population involved and it becomes a huge nationwide craze, the telemarketers are going to have very low odds of actually hitting a bot. So it will only raise their costs a little.

Thank you! I will be subscribing shortly. But I'd like to take it a step further and actually setup a honeypot phone number so calls are automatically transferred to the bot without manual intervention.

My elderly parents were scammed this way and I want revenge!

Extensive discussion of Jolly Roger's war against the "Windows Support" scam:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13594840