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When Telemarketers Harass Telecoms Companies

Posted by timothy on from the listen-through-the-glitches dept.

farnz writes "Andrews & Arnold, a small telecoms company in the UK, have recently been hit with an outbreak of illegal junk calls. Unlike larger firms, they've come up with an innovative response — assign 4 million numbers to play recordings to the telemarketers, put them on the UK's Do-Not-Call list and see what happens. Thus far, the record is over 3 minutes before a telemarketer works out what's going on." The sound quality (and the satisfying humor) of the recording gets better as it goes on.

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  1. 3 minutes? by aylons · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Headline should be: "Telemarketer failed the Turing test."

    But I guess this is not as much breaking news as it is a confirmation, .

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  2. We need an opt in list for tele and email sales by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We need an opt in list.

    Then it should be published on the internet because it is those bastards who are the ones who have kept the spammers in work all these years, while the rest of us have been trying to get rid of them!

    They deserve vilification just as much as the spammers themselves.