Posted on 07/05/2023 4:21:42 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
After a telemarketer swore at his son nearly 10 years ago, Roger Anderson set out to cause robocallers, telephone fraudsters and scammers as many problems as possible.
His solution was to create an artificial intelligence call-deflection system that puts incoming spam calls on the line with a ChatGPT-powered personality, keeping fraudsters talking in circles as they attempt to extract financial information from a chatbot.
"This is really an incredibly silly idea," Anderson, who founded the Jolly Roger Telephone Company, told Fox News. "But in a way, I think it's the only way to combat unsolicited telemarketing because we just can't seem to get a track on stopping all of these unwanted calls."
"These robots, now thanks to ChatGPT, they tuned their conversation to the context of the call," Anderson said. "So if a scammer is talking about debt consolidation, the robots will talk about how much debt they have and tease them a little bit."
"If the scammer wants to talk about Medicare fraud, then the robots will talk about Medicare and keep them going," he continued.
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Lol sounds like something I would do ððŧ
Get Robokiller. Works great.
Any American caught with a robocalling operation pays fines, loses the right to that phone number, and can only possess one phone number for personal use. Non-American offenders lose all phone privileges and get deported.
My parents were born in the 1920s. Because of infirmity, in their last years, they couldn’t answer the phone.
I tried to disabuse them their old-fashioned notions, but even before that, when anyone called the house, they were polite, respectful and gave the caller a full hearing. They and assumed that the caller had something valuable to say - and would be mutually respectful to them as well.
Like air-travel, restaurant dining, and 1000 other social interactions, I take it as a measure of how far our society has fallen - and how low our expectations are now.
There is a White Knight on Youtube who targets scammers. He tracks them down, hacks their systems, and reports them to foreign authorities.
My cell phone has a "Do not disturb" mode where it won't ring except for caller IDs in my contact list. So family and friends get through, but spammers go direct to voicemail.
These days you can get answering machines with a whitelist feature. Don't bother with blacklist, spammers just randomly change numbers.
Dont worry, these calls are illegal
And soon the FBI, the NSA, the FEC, the XYZ, all of the,m are going to use the full expertise of Federal Law Enforcemnt to stop this illegal activity.
I understand they’ve almost completely shut down heroin and fentenyl dealing.
I’ve wanted to tell these scammers that mercenaries have been dispatched and they should be there in about 13 minutes. Then really send in mercenaries.
I hope his next customer is Mike Tyson and Mike doesn’t tip him.
Did you try adding your phone number to the Federal Do Not Call list? It will only stop legitimate call centers as call centers in India just ignore our laws.
My late mother would give these scammers heck when they called. If the caller said he was her “favorite grandson” and in jail and needed money, she would respond that all her grandchildren were currently at her home. Or, she would tell them her grandsons would do nothing in which to be arrested for they were all “sweet and adorable”. Sometimes she would tell them to call her attorney and she would give him the number if they would just wait a minute while she found it. By the time she returned to the phone, they would be gone.
For the Medicaid callers she would confuse them with questions regarding which medications would be covered under the offered plan. She knew the actual official names of many medications and could spout them off at a request. Mother would ask if a medication for some obscure disease was covered, and the caller would be so flustered they would many times just hang up at that point.
I told her many times to be careful and just ignore the calls she didn’t recognize. However, she enjoyed aggravating them while pretending to be an naive old lady.
And when you search for a number online. And you go to those "reverse look up" websites...There should be an automatic trigger once 3 people look up a number and designate it as spam, the phone number owner is paid a visit by some sort of investigator or law enforcement.
Scambaiters have been using “Lenny” to waste scammers time for years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFAJ_BewrzQ
Lowbridge scams the Nigerian 419 Email Scammers
This is what the internet was made for, folks. LMAO.
Before I got my phone that requires callers to punch a number to get through I would pick up the phone and say crazy stuff..and try not to laugh.
I would do a crazy grandma voice and accuse the caller of stealing my chickens. Then I would say something like I saw you in the henhouse last night. I amuse myself easily.
I wish I could get my mother to do that. The phone even tells her it's potential spam, and she still answers it. My dad ignores anything that isn't from someone in his contact list.
I love your mom. ð
I still have a landline as an emergency backup for outgoing calls but ringer is off and I never check caller Id. If people want us they have to ring our mobiles.
Obama used to brag he could drone strike terrorists on the other side of the planet with the push of a button. We need a president that is willing to put that technology to use against phone scammers.
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