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by pnw 325 days ago
Has anyone made an open source version of this? It would be great to fight scams and tie up scam call centers.
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ethan_smith 324 days ago
Check out Jim Browning's Scammer Payback toolkit and OpenAI's Whisper+GPT integration projects on GitHub - both can be adapted for this with some Python knowledge and a SIP trunk.
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nojs 325 days ago
Lenny has you covered there. No AI required!

https://www.lennytroll.com/

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pavel_lishin 324 days ago
> Lenny Troll runs best on The Raspberry Pi with a USRobotics USR5637 Voice Modem connected to your home telephone

I'd love for Lenny to somehow run on my mobile phone - I get plenty of spam calls there that I'd love to tie up with Lenny for awhile, but I have never been able to get it to work.

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toast0 320 days ago
Your best hope there is finding a way to transfer the call or do a three way call. I don't think either appstore wants to let developers interact with PTSN calls.
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pnw 325 days ago
Nice, I want outbound calls though, for that 1-800 number on the Norton/McAfee/Geeksquad "invoice" in my spam folder.
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