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by ChristianBundy 3484 days ago
Have you heard of the "It's Lenny" bot?

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.

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Great link, although Lenny has now wasted my time too.
Similar and much more polished is the Jolly Roger Telephone Company: http://www.jollyrogertelco.com
Goldmine. 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.
> 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).

This 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.