by Roger | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog, JollyRogerTelephone
The core of the Jolly Roger Telephone service is wasting telemarketer time. I’ve had a lot of interesting calls, but this one demonstrates that the original bot is still going strong. For anyone new to Jolly Roger, I built this bot for my own line at home, and...
by Roger | Mar 11, 2017 | Blog, JollyRogerTelephone
Hi All, Here is Episode 15 of the Jolly Roger Telephone podcast. I have SO MUCH to tell you! In this episode, I discuss the Windows Support scam, what I am trying to do about it, and some of the interesting legal and regulatory issues I’ll be dealing with. I...
by Roger | Mar 7, 2017 | Blog, JollyRogerTelephone
Here is the maiden voyage of this “Windows User in Distress” bot. I have discovered it is more entertaining to “trickle” the calls into the fake Windows support centers so the agents engage for a long time with the bots. The plan is for me to...
by Roger | Feb 21, 2017 | Blog, JollyRogerTelephone
The FTC has cracked down on one company behind the “free cruise!” scam. I get a ton of these calls into my bots. What I find interesting here is the defendants made 12 to 15 MILLION illegal robocalls PER DAY between October 2011 and July 2012, and yet they...
by Roger | Feb 19, 2017 | Blog, JollyRogerTelephone
Thank you to Leo Laporte and the crew at TWiT.tv for inviting me to The New Screen Savers for a second time! Here is my most recent appearance (on February 18th, 2017) where I discuss how I am attacking the Windows Support scammers by having robots call them hundreds...
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