Telemarketers probably don’t like Lenny

Tormenting Telemarketers ^ | May 21, 2015 | Unkkown

[MD Expat in PA]

The worst thing you can do to a Telemarketer is talk to them!

Or so I thought. Maybe the worst thing you can do to a Telemarketer is let your robo talk to them. After all, they call you with their computers, so it’s only fair to let them talk to your computer. That’s where ‘Hello, This Is Lenny’ comes in. ‘Lenny’ is a set of scripts originally used on an Asterisk-based Voice-Over-IP system. You can transfer the call to the extension using these scripts, or have the dialplan automatically route to Lenny’s extension.

Check out some of the You Tube videos. The telemarketers and bill collectors don't realize that they are talking not to a real person but a computer script. They are hilarious!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5IKbFATKLo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcCa59p0860

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSoOrlh5i1k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xckcYGVT75g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICXktcqmXVw

LOL!

[MinuteGal]

That was a funny video.....and really proof that fiction is no stranger than truth.

It had elements of how I, myself, toy with the intrusive, dinner-time phone solicitors when I have the time and the inclination...and feel devilish.

Leni

[MD Expat in PA]

Telemarketing Call from “Boiler Room”

The Boiler Room was a fairly decent movie.

Over the years I had worked at several small companies as the bookkeeper / office manger and often would also answer the main telephone line or have all sales calls sent to me and used to get calls all the time from "boiler room" stock brokers. Some of them could be extremely abusive, berate me with the foulest language imaginable, and threaten that I'd be fired as they were BBF's of the owner or belonged to his country club when I wouldn't transfer their calls to the owner of the company. Those and the "toner slammers". I never fell for it. And in fact at one company, an architectural firm, the partners dubbed me The Terminator because I was so good at screening out telemarketing calls. : )

[MD Expat in PA]

This is pretty simple. We just don't bother to answer the phone unless it's someone we know. And they have to tell us who they are. My answering machine call log will store 50 missed calls. It is always maxed out.

I ditched my land line years ago as everyone I knew would call me on my cell phone number and all the calls I was getting on my land line were either telemarketers, even with being on the Do No Call List although that did cut down on them somewhat, or wrong numbers.

I have been getting calls on my cell from unknown numbers but I never answer them. If they don't leave a VM, it's a scam or telemarketing call.

[CodeToad]

“If you clearly say “REMOVE ME FROM YOUR LIST” it has seemed to generate a correct response”

That has NEVER worked for me. They usually hang up before you can even finish that sentence.

[MD Expat in PA]

That’s a classic!