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Re:U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams by dmoy on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @07:32PM (#22175841)
It is slightly more effective than replying to spam emails because you tie up their human capital dealing with you.

It's not a lot more effective though.

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Re:U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams by behringer on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:31AM (#22182365)
I like to think they put me on an actual do not call list since I tie up and annoy their operators for as long as possible. One time getting the same guy a dozen times before he finally gave up and from what I can guess just went on a long lunch lol.
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Re:U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams by unishark on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:26PM (#22176211)
It also drains their money since they pay per minute for the call the longer you can string them along.
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Re:U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams by beatgammit on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:37PM (#22176295)
That doesn't sound like a worthwhile use of time though. What would be cool is if we could transfer the call to a robo responder and have it be smart enough to act like a really dumb person.
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Re:U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams by roywiggins on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:48PM (#22176362)
You technically can! Meet Lenny.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RRhRImp6kKQ

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Re:U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams by overcast on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @09:20AM (#22180718)
Lenny rocks. The current record in our office is 13:47 - we couldn't believe it either.
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Re:U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams by sixstringtheory on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @02:03AM (#22178179)
Wonder if something like GPT-2 could be trained to do something like this?
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Re:U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams by bonestamp2 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:09AM (#22178444)
It should also learn the caller's speech and slowly overtime change it's own voice to sound more and more like the caller. Eventually the caller would be talking to themself... same accent, cadence, vocabulary, etc. LOL
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Re:U.S. files lawsuits over robocall scams by asdff on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:04AM (#22178698)
they have proper robocalls too.

"This is the IRS speaking" in a voice about as authoritative as Microsoft Sam.

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