[kalleboo]

This is a great idea. Waste the spammer's time and it's no longer worth it.

The phone version of this is Lenny[0], a set of audio files/Asterisk script which pretends to be a senile, doddering old man (who has a duck problem). There's a reddit user who runs a number you can forward your sales calls to, and he'll pick out the best ones and put on YouTube[1]. The record is keeping a caller on the phone for 56 minutes.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduL71_GKzHHk4hLga0nO... (edit: if you sort the user's videos by most popular, the top one is something quite amazing)

[gingerlime]

I was actually thinking it would be awesome to combine the two. Inject a phone number on one/some of the random responses and let Lenny pick up the phone and take it from there...

[spacehome]

In addition the telemarketers, I wasted a bunch of time listening to Lenny. This is amazing! Thanks!

Edit: I love his ducks

[spacehome]

If I let one of these "Windows Technical Department" guys into my Parallels Windows VM running on OS X, am I exposing myself to any danger?

[mkagenius]

If you want a youtube clip to talk back to the spammer use : https://dubdial.com

disclosure: I am one of the author

[estefan]

This is great! I didn't know about Lenny :-D