[VoiceOps] Sophisticated Voice-Response Robocalls

[Patrick Labbett]

This is fairly easy to do with GRXML and any platform that supports it
(voxeo, tropo, I believe asterisk and freeswitch have addons for it.)  And
of course a developer with basic understanding of call flow and responses.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 11:35 AM Merve Sahin <sahin at eurecom.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You may find some related information here:
>
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/the-new-spam-interactive-robo-calls-from-the-cloud-as-cheap-as-e-mail/
>
> Merve
>
> On 12/11/2015 05:19 PM, Peter Beckman wrote:
> > 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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> >>>
> >>> Peter Beckman
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> >>>
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> > Peter Beckman                                                  Internet
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