<div dir="ltr">Not more than 30 minutes ago, I got a call asking if we offer a hosted IVR service or if I would be interested in one.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Patrick Labbett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick.labbett@gmail.com" target="_blank">patrick.labbett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">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. </p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 11:35 AM Merve Sahin <<a href="mailto:sahin@eurecom.fr" target="_blank">sahin@eurecom.fr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
You may find some related information here:<br>
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/the-new-spam-interactive-robo-calls-from-the-cloud-as-cheap-as-e-mail/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/the-new-spam-interactive-robo-calls-from-the-cloud-as-cheap-as-e-mail/</a><br>
<br>
Merve<br>
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On 12/11/2015 05:19 PM, Peter Beckman wrote:<br>
> I know hunting down and stopping the calls isn't worth my time.<br>
><br>
> I'm more interested in the technology they are using and who has built it<br>
> and who provides it as a service.<br>
><br>
> Beckman<br>
><br>
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Aaron Seelye wrote:<br>
><br>
>> FWIW, the number you saw on caller ID really doesn't mean anything. I<br>
>> get emails/calls from people complaining to me that one of our<br>
>> customers is spam calling them, only to find that the number isn't<br>
>> allocated to anyone, and didn't even touch our switch. It's too much<br>
>> of a PITA to really trace down how a call got to you, and the trail<br>
>> would likely die when you hit an account that was made elsewhere with<br>
>> a stolen CC or was made from overseas.<br>
>><br>
>> -Aaron<br>
>><br>
>> On 12/11/15 6:53 AM, Peter Beckman wrote:<br>
>>> I just got a pretty sophisticated voice-response robocall.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Caller: "Hello is Jen there?" (My wife's name. Coincidence or<br>
>>> intentional?)<br>
>>><br>
>>> Me: "I'm sorry, Who is this?"<br>
>>><br>
>>> Caller: "Oh sorry I was calling for either of you. This is Debbie<br>
>>> [something] and I'm calling about ... [sales pitch for<br>
>>> something]"<br>
>>><br>
>>> Me: "Excuse me, could you tell me what 5 plus 7 is?"<br>
>>><br>
>>> Caller: "Oh well then I'll call back later, OK?"<br>
>>><br>
>>> Me: "No."<br>
>>><br>
>>> Caller: "OK, bye."<br>
>>><br>
>>> Now I could tell that these were recordings pretty quickly, but I had to<br>
>>> throw a Turing Test at it to be sure. The call and audio quality was<br>
>>> good,<br>
>>> and frankly, I was impressed, right until the anger flooded in about it<br>
>>> being a robocall.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Anyone else experience the same? Know who the provider is?<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-206-777-1088" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-206-777-1088</a><br>
>>><br>
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