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Let their bots talk to your bots!

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I look forward to telemarketers calling me.
Sometimes the bots can get past the robocall part and get a real human on the phone.
My record is 12 minutes.

A very nice service.

Let their bots talk to your bots!

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I look forward to telemarketers calling me.
Sometimes the bots can get past the robocall part and get a real human on the phone.
My record is 12 minutes.

Better solution:

1. Get a VoIP service which provides call filtering and IVR functionality.
2. Set up all calls to go to the IVR. Have the IVR ask legitimate callers to press a number to connect.
3. Any calls which pass the IVR get forwarded to a ring group.
4. Optional; set up VoIP client on cellphone.
5. Optional; if not using VoIP on cell, set up your cellphone to only allow incoming calls from your IVR.
6. Optional; whitelist any legit numbers to let them bypass the IVR completely.

I use a setup something like this for both home phone and cell. Works like a charm. Since I can forward the calls as VoIP I've actually switched my cell to a data-only plan which also saves me hundreds of dollars every year, but that's just the cherry on top; the fact that not a single spam call has managed to get through in the last 2 years is the real benefit of it all.

For added fun:

7. Blacklist any numbers which keep hammering your IVR and getting stuck there; forward them to The Jolly Roger.

When I get robocalls, I let the Jolly Roger bots answer it for me.

I think this should be effective against tele-spammers too:
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It's not AI, but it's better in a way because the timed responses will talk over the caller and interrupt them.

Check out http://www.jollyrogertelco.com... Basically you can conference call a bot in to talk to the scammer for you. It may not stop the calls but at the very least it will waste their time (which costs them money) and it's good for some laughs. They have some pretty funny examples on their YouTube channel.

The problem is they CAN NOT BLOCK these calls from being delivered.

If they give a Letter of Marque to a "Concerned Citizen" (who happens to have a nice net connect and a large stack of telcom equipment) then HOIST THE COLORS time!

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The best way to deal with them it to cost them money. And the best way to do that is to keep them on the line as long as possible. Not only is that keeping them from moving on and scamming the next person but that's also time they're paying that person to talk to you. You should look into http://www.jollyrogertelco.com... They provide bots that will talk to the telemarketers for you and it can get pretty hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You might like the Jolly Roger Telephone Company. They're pretty much doing just what you want.

http://www.jollyrogertelco.com...

Why not let them talk to a robot for awhile?

http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/

Some of the recordings are hilarious when the telemarketers start losing their shit.

The best way to handle any scam is to use the Jolly Roger Phone Company. http://www.jollyrogertelco.com...

Watch the YouTube channel. It's so bad, I actually feel sorry for the poor telemarketers.

I prefer Lenny, but there's also the Jolly Roger Telephone Company.

Not quite what you asked for but close

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