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by trinsic2 89 days ago
>I dunno... it feels like the same approach as those people who tell you gleeful stories of how they kept a phone spammer on a call for 45 minutes: "That'll teach 'em, ha ha!" Do these types of techniques really work? I’m not convinced

If you are automating it, I don't see why not. Kitboga, a you-tuber kept scam callers in AI call-center loops tying up there resources so they cant use them on unsuspecting victims.[0]

That's a guerilla tactic, similar in warfare, when you steal resources from an enemy, you get stronger and they get weaker, its pretty effective.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDpo_o7dR8c
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phplovesong 89 days ago
Pretty easy. Get a paid number and have the phone scammers / marketers call that. I know a guy who made a decent side huzzle from this. They marketers slowly blocked his number tho, not sure if he still has this thing going on, as it was more a experiment.
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yareally 89 days ago
Was he picking up the phone and telling them to call him back on the other number?
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phplovesong 88 days ago
IIRC he did something like that, ask them to call back in "10 minutes after my meeting, and call my personal number, not my corporate phone, as it is tracked". On other occasions he filled in this number to some online forms that he "was asked to fill before continuing".
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sysguest 88 days ago
> Get a paid number

how? I'm interested

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phplovesong 88 days ago
Its pretty easy. You can register a number with a phone company. Then you decide on the cost (eg. 5 bucks / minute). I recall he told me got like 100-150 usd/month from this. The longer he talked, the more they paid. He used to hang up after 10 or 15 minutes, but his "record" was close to one hour.
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bdangubic 89 days ago
more and more scammers are automating their side as well so soon the loop will be just bots talking to bots
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Saline9515 89 days ago
The dead phone theory?
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Bombthecat 88 days ago
More like dead communication theory:)
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Saline9515 88 days ago
It would make a great pitch for a postmodern novel. In a post-ai world where everything is a remixed replica of the former world, humans don't communicate anymore as they were overloaded by noise and spam and can't distinguish between real humans and AIs.
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