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The US Do Not Call registry is offline

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Re: The US Do Not Call registry is offline

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Post by kemotep »

clbrmbr wrote: post #7
rogerrogerr wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Start answering them and try to string them along as long as possible. That’s the only way you can send a signal that calling this number is actively unprofitable. Just telling them to stop calling doesn’t work, but since I started wasting their time they have mostly quit calling. I get one or two a month.

But my time is valuable… but I would pay OpenAI's V2V rates for the privilege of stringing along scammers. I need a button “transfer to time waster agent”.

You could also transfer them to your Uncle Lenny. He can talk for hours if need be.

https://lennytroll.com/

Re: The US Do Not Call registry is offline

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Post by jmclnx »

I know I am a bit late to the party, nothing of value was lost here.

I never signed up for it because I know this is really a method for giving telemarketers a list of good phone numbers. I hardly get any calls were people I know who signed up gets lots.

That is because these companies opened up subsidiaries in foreign countries and used the list to call people. Many calls people I know get are from spoofed numbers located in other countries.

Re: The US Do Not Call registry is offline

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 »

clbrmbr wrote: post #7
rogerrogerr wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Start answering them and try to string them along as long as possible. That’s the only way you can send a signal that calling this number is actively unprofitable. Just telling them to stop calling doesn’t work, but since I started wasting their time they have mostly quit calling. I get one or two a month.

But my time is valuable… but I would pay OpenAI's V2V rates for the privilege of stringing along scammers. I need a button “transfer to time waster agent”.

If you pay for a service like this, you will inadvertently create more spam callers. OpenAI will start (secretly) creating spam AI agents to create demand for their AI waster agents.
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