Re: [AFMUG] Microcom phone calls!?!?!

Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:55:42 -0700

Somebody was in the news recently, she paid $10,000 worth of iTunes gift cards to the 'Canadian Revenue Agency'... The canuck IRS is real but they sure don't take payment in scratch cards.


On Jul 26, 2016 9:32 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
I really gained some “tough dad” points with my kids once.  We had 8 kids and my oldest had a boyfriend visiting (who later married her and has kept her captive for 13 years in Cornwall UK along with my grandchildren, but that is a different story). 
 
All kids and boyfriend were down in the TV room watching something.  The phone rang.  Oldest daughter answered it, had a concerned look on her face.  Held the phone out to me: “Dad, it is the FBI and is very urgent”.  I took the phone and after listening for about 20 seconds I said: “You are full of shit, why don’t you go get a girlfriend and move out of your mother’s basement”. 
 
The kids were blown away by a dad that would talk to the FBI like that. 
 
There used to be a group called Phone Losers of America.  They would do prank calls, record the interchange and share the calls.  Normally on a conference bridge.  Sometimes on a hacked Beehive conference bridge.  I knew they were using the bridges but it made the company money on access charges so I really didn’t care.  I had heard a few of their pranks and recognized the caller and knew he was recording me.  Oddly he never shared that recording. 
 
My kids still talk about the time I told the FBI they were full of shit. 
 
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Microcom phone calls!?!?!
 

I give them mymailto:[email protected] address and sometimes use some Navajo phrases or Hindi to fuck with them.  They usually hang up.
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On Jul 26, 2016 6:19 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
I might actually look at implementing this. If it's a slow day at work, I'll put them on speaker while I play with the telemarketers.
My favorite are the credit card people saying they can lower your rate but need your card number. I always so, "Can you hold
on a minute, I need to go out to my truck and get it." Then turn on mute and put my phone down. They will stay on the line,
listening to nothing but dead air for at LEAST 5 minutes. I think my personal "record" is 12 minutes.
 
My thought is, every minute I waste of their time is another minute they aren't scamming someone else.
 
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, it's actually a series of individual audio files and a short bit of code for asterisk:

http://www.crosstalksolutions.com/howto-pwn-telemarketers-with-lenny/

[Lenny]
exten => talk,1,Set(i=${IF($["0${i}"="016"]?7:$[0${i}+1])})
same => n,ExecIf($[${i}=1]?MixMonitor(${UNIQUEID}.wav))
same => n,Playback(Lenny/Lenny${i})
same => n,BackgroundDetect(Lenny/backgroundnoise,1500)

 
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
I wonder if it takes an asterisk programmed to watch for pauses in the audio to advance the recording?
 
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Microcom phone calls!?!?!
 
The average telemarketer only lasts 13 to 20 minutes with Lenny but there's some calls that go 50+ minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkBQQA7yLYo


 
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:
That Lenny script has got to be one of the funniest things that I have ever heard!  I was crying laughing at the IRS call on YouTube.
 
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a 206 NPA DID which my asterisk systems answers with the "Lenny" script on the first ring, let me know if you want the number to forward them to.

for those who haven't seen it: http://reddit.com/r/itslenny


 
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Jeremy <[email protected]> wrote:
How do you get them to stop??  I made the mistake of using them for training one time...NEVER AGAIN!  I get at least one to two calls a week.  I have asked repeatedly to be removed from their call list.  I'm not sure what is left other than filing a complaint with the FCC for ignoring our requests and the do not call list.  Is everyone else fighting this too?
 
 
 
 
 

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