I've never once been able to successfully deploy Lenny (or other equivalents such as the Jolly Roger Telephone Company) against a spam call. The calls are always from a recording, not a person, and after I put them through to Lenny (which is an annoyingly long process on an Android phone -- press add call, unlock phone, select Lenny, hit "call", wait, hit "merge", then mute myself) they always just hang up pretty quickly. Anyone have any idea if there's some way I could be using it better? Press a key to get through to a person, maybe, and then deploy Lenny?
This. I get a bunch of robo calls that appear to be for no purpose - there is no way to get a human on the other end of the phone (they just disconnect when you express interest in what they are selling). It's almost like the call itself is a scam, but not on me - like the call centers that offer this service are getting paid to make the call and not the conversion, so they dial my number and play a recording but have no facility to do more than that. Super frustrating.
They could also be checking to see if a human answers so they can sell your number or target you later.
Are there any easy to use self-hosting packages for this kind of thing? There's also http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/ that is this thing turned into a service. I'd like to use these things but would like something I have more control over.
This is very similar to what RoboKiller[1] does but with a lot more friction and less features.