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...
by Roger | Feb 17, 2017 | Blog
A photographer in Houston posted a nice blog entry about how Jolly Roger Telephone has changed his attitude about telemarketers. Like many of you (and me), he relies on his phone for new business. If you don’t have the luxury of ignoring unrecognized callers,...
by Roger | Feb 16, 2017 | Blog
Windows support scammers are back online. Sending a small number of calls as we all get back to our day jobs. Here is a small “Broadside” campaign to knock out a number that was reported to me this morning. Some of these calls are really long. Obviously at...
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