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

[Gundemarie Scholz]

Paul Rayner wrote:
> 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.

There you go:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Telemarketer+Torture

Regards,
Gunde
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