[Gllug] A few words on the topic of stock spam

[Paul Rayner]

On 11 Jul 2007, at 10:08, Jason Clifford wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, John Winters wrote:
>
>> (I had an interesting variation the other day.  An american woman
>> actually *phoned* me trying to give me a stock tip.  As soon as I  
>> worked
>> out what the call was about I simply hung up and she then phoned  
>> back!
>> It's not much, but at least she had to pay for two calls.)
>
> The sad fact is that these days it costs them very little to make such
> calls and I suspect the value of your time really is a lot more  
> than that.

I remember seeing an asterisk script/plugin that let you could divert  
unsolicited sales calls to. IIRC it ran in an infinate loop,  
listening for pauses at the other end, then replying with random pre- 
recorded non-committal phrases like "could you give me some more  
information please", "really?" and "I'm not sure about that" until  
the person at the other end hung up. I thought it was a little cruel  
to use on telesales people, but for fraudsters it'd be perfect.

I can't find said plugin/script on google to provide a link, sorry.

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Paul Rayner
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