[VoiceOps] Sophisticated Voice-Response Robocalls

[Peter Beckman]

I know hunting down and stopping the calls isn't worth my time.

I'm more interested in the technology they are using and who has built it
and who provides it as a service.

Beckman

On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Aaron Seelye wrote:

> FWIW, the number you saw on caller ID really doesn't mean anything.  I get 
> emails/calls from people complaining to me that one of our customers is spam 
> calling them, only to find that the number isn't allocated to anyone, and 
> didn't even touch our switch.  It's too much of a PITA to really trace down 
> how a call got to you, and the trail would likely die when you hit an account 
> that was made elsewhere with a stolen CC or was made from overseas.
>
> -Aaron
>
> On 12/11/15 6:53 AM, Peter Beckman wrote:
>> I just got a pretty sophisticated voice-response robocall.
>>
>>      Caller: "Hello is Jen there?" (My wife's name. Coincidence or
>> intentional?)
>>
>>          Me: "I'm sorry, Who is this?"
>>
>>      Caller: "Oh sorry I was calling for either of you. This is Debbie
>>              [something] and I'm calling about ... [sales pitch for
>> something]"
>>
>>          Me: "Excuse me, could you tell me what 5 plus 7 is?"
>>
>>      Caller: "Oh well then I'll call back later, OK?"
>>
>>          Me: "No."
>>
>>      Caller: "OK, bye."
>> 
>> Now I could tell that these were recordings pretty quickly, but I had to
>> throw a Turing Test at it to be sure. The call and audio quality was good,
>> and frankly, I was impressed, right until the anger flooded in about it
>> being a robocall.
>> 
>> Anyone else experience the same? Know who the provider is?
>> 
>> http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-206-777-1088
>> 
>> Beckman
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