This is my scariest call. I get calls all the time from this air duct cleaning company. It makes me happy to think about all the time I have wasted from these horrible scammers, but this call was a little chilling when I listened to it a few hours later. I was actually worried about this guy showing up at my house the next day.
As soon as this call was over, he called back again. Now, my robot is not supposed to answer the same caller-id within an hour, but since he is calling from a fake caller-id, the robot did pick up. He said “yeah” at the beginning, and then just listened to the robot make little acknowledgement sounds for almost three minutes. CREEPY!
Those of you who have been listening to all my calls are probably tired of me talking about how we need to end these scammers. I would NOT want this guy calling you, your parents, or your kids. Thanks for your support through this crazy February. And let’s create more bots to waste the time of as many scammers as we can. You can hear a call center full of these people in the background. Making appointments, charging deposits on credit cards. Repeat.
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Spooky!
I cannot tell you how much I support you. I am handling the affairs for my father who has dementia and every day I am fielding scams targeting him. Here is my idea, could you build it? Just a box that sits between the phone line and the main phone and answers the phone prior to it’s ring (or as fast as possible) and asks for a code (say, 1212) then and only then it rings my house.
I control the code, and give it to my loved ones and folks I want to get thru. everyone else goes straight to voicemail without ever ringing my house. if you want to discuss, I am at tdksa90@gmail.com.
Yes! This is similar to something I have set up at my house. I would love to help with your father. I’m so sorry to hear about your challenges and hate these scammers. Let’s email at Roger at jollyrogertelephone.com
I love your concept. The concern I would have in using it is that with caller ID and also that some use the phone book, if the recording agreeing to buy stuff, then it sounds like you could have a major problem. Also, if the caller is local and happens to be a pissed off psycho…..
We are on do not call list so most of the calls are from non-profits and political groups that drive us nuts every evening and weekends. Regardless of request they don’t remove us from their list, so I’ll give your jolly roger a try. Thanks and very good luck with your product and business.
This will work for bill collectors too! Woohoo!
Please pay your bills.
Nearly had me in tears!! So funny 😀
I love your robot! Can I get one too?! I get so many telemarketing calls…but I can’t give up my landline!
Don’t give up your landline! For now, you can “conference in” my robot if you have three way calling. Press flash, then dial 1-214-666-4321, then flash again. You’ll have to be quick so the telemarketer doesn’t hang up. I’ll be able to offer a better solution once this Kickstarter is over. Good luck! You might want to practice once or twice. Save the landline!!
I live in Canada so imagine I’d be charge long distance if I tried to forward the call to you but the last time I got a telemarketer I did what your robot does, it took me about 3 minutes but I managed to get the guy to hang up on me…I kept distracting him…said can you hold on a minute, I have to put my puppy outside…can you repeat what you said, I really wasn’t listening I was paying attention to my pup etc etc…was soooo funny, my sister was over and she’s like who are you talking to? We were laughing so hard after, it was a good feeling to get them to hang up for a change!
Oh that is funny. Yes, I am learning more about Canadian long distance and it would be an LD call to Texas. I am working with a carrier and may be able to provide local Canadian numbers soon.