by jollyroger | Jun 4, 2018 | Blog, JollyRogerTelephone
This call is another “business loan” scam. Now, it might not be fair to classify all business loan telemarketers as scams, but there are a TON of warnings from the BBB, FTC, and various trade organizations regarding these types of calls. So if you are a...
by jollyroger | Apr 19, 2018 | Blog, JollyRogerTelephone
After listening to hundreds of telemarketing scams, I’m a little jaded. But I thought this scam was pretty clever. It’s a fake Verizon agent who is calling because of suspicious activity on our account. In order to research it further, he needs to verify...
by jollyroger | Mar 25, 2018 | Blog, JollyRogerTelephone
What better place for the Jolly Roger than “Digital Ocean”, right? All Jolly Roger services have moved to digitalocean.com. I did not select this host based upon its name. It turns out they have a really nice virtual machine infrastructure that is...
by jollyroger | Mar 17, 2018 | Blog, JollyRogerTelephone
The TCPA was supposed to be this great thing that allowed us to sue telemarketers if they violated a bunch of rules. Of course, it didn’t seem to do much. I don’t know – perhaps telemarketing in 2018 would be worse without it, but telemarketing is...
by jollyroger | Mar 10, 2018 | Blog, JollyRogerTelephone
Hello all! This call is between a “heating and air” scammer and a Jolly Roger bot named Barbarossa. If any of you have heard Barbarossa before, he’s not a particularly sympathetic bot. But this incarnation of Barbarossa somehow manages to sound like...
by jollyroger | Mar 2, 2018 | Blog, JollyRogerTelephone
Note: As I post this episode, I realize that I did not finish episode 17! Unfortunately, I already mentioned the episode number a couple times in the audio, so I just went with it. I’ll get episode 17 posted soon. In this episode, I talk about some recent...
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