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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.

2 of 234 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Stomp by Aboroth · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your attempt at being funny just comes off as being a smart-ass. Both of your "counter-examples" are things people have to choose to watch, while telemarketers call you whether you want them to or not.

  2. Re:There is an app for that. by bsDaemon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Isn't that the primary non-vodka-related economic activity in Eastern Europe?