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It's like when you say something funny in a group setting which only one person hears, and instead of asking you to repeat it for everyone, they repeat it loudly themselves like it was thier joke! :)
Edit: Heaven forbid that you should point out that HN is sometimes just like Reddit! Downvote away, I have no interest in MIPs†.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16035487
†Meaningless Internet Points
OP here. Just to clarify, because I see a lot of congratulations. I just shared the project, I'm not the author. Based on the GitLab project, the author seems to be @stavros: - https://gitlab.com/stavros/Spamnesty - https://twitter.com/stavros - https://www.stavros.io/
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Maybe, rather than investing more into Lenny, create some more personas (voice, gender, etc) to add to the variety between calls? Maybe also have an option to hand a call over to the next persona in lengthy calls (so that the caller has to start all over again, in order to explain the issue to the "room mate", "brother", "cousin", etc)...
This is brilliant.
Great idea! Wasting spammers time is one of the very few ways of making them effectively lose money. Still the project needs some pseudo randomization in order to fool basic research. Some of the messages I read contained the sentence "I am a bit busy now, but I am definitely interested. When can we talk?". If one searches for that sentence in quotes Google returns four pages of references to Spamnesty. A slightly mo…
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Some magnificent genius has created the perfect bot for hooking predatory telemarketers. "Lenny" is a slightly confused elderly man with poor hearing. He wanders off topic, he isn't sure what you just said and he is absolute catnip for crooks. If you haven't heard a call to Lenny, you're in for an absolute treat. This call from a tech support scammer lasts an exhausting 31 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJT…
The thing that makes me angry with some of those recordings is when the callers still think that they are talking to a dotty old fellow who they can con (they usually cotton on to the trick in the end). When to my ears Lenny sounds like someone with dementia who needs help and should not under any circumstances be sold to without a legal guardian present, what they seem to take from the situation is "great, I might m…
I saw www.rescam.org on here a while ago, definitely worth a visit!
Well done. It does get the spammers frustrated. I remember reading about a similar thing[1] where instead of emails it was automated telephone replies and the scammers were cussing at the bots and generally super confused. It did also manage to flood their phone lines making their call center useless for a while. [1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj8wg4/we-talked-...
Some magnificent genius has created the perfect bot for hooking predatory telemarketers. "Lenny" is a slightly confused elderly man with poor hearing. He wanders off topic, he isn't sure what you just said and he is absolute catnip for crooks. If you haven't heard a call to Lenny, you're in for an absolute treat. This call from a tech support scammer lasts an exhausting 31 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJT…
554 Recipients' domain disabled
Reporting-MTA: dns; googlemail.com Received-From-MTA: dns; ----------@gmail.com Arrival-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 20:49:25 -0800 (PST) X-Original-Message-ID:
Final-Recipient: rfc822; sp@mnesty.com Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: dns; mxb.mailgun.org. (54.69.170.70, the server for the domain mnesty.com.) Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 554 Recipients' domain disabled Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 20:49:27 -0800 (PST)
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The thing that makes me angry with some of those recordings is when the callers still think that they are talking to a dotty old fellow who they can con (they usually cotton on to the trick in the end). When to my ears Lenny sounds like someone with dementia who needs help and should not under any circumstances be sold to without a legal guardian present, what they seem to take from the situation is "great, I might m…
If they didn't try to get the sale, they'd probably get fired and swapped with someone who would.