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I wonder if it is possible to forward robocalls to another service that will attempt to keep the robocaller busy as long as possible. It would be great if everyone can just answer the robocalls and press a button to forward to a time-waster service. Hopefully, every busy robocall is one less call to another person.


I have a pretty stupid bot set up with Asterisk. I think the record is 17 minutes, and the bot even repeated the script. When I get bored I put up some calls:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYyYngFvpbNqsAhpAI6DoeA


I love this. You wouldn't happen to have a blog post that details your setup?


I wonder if it's based on the same thing as https://old.reddit.com/r/itslenny/top?t=all


Yeah. Lenny wasn't so effective for the vacation, Google Listing, or insurance scams so I re-recorded it.


Oh, I didn't know this was a thing. Thanks for the link.


It's pretty simple, I'll put something together.


https://jollyrogertelephone.com/ though used to be free looks like they've started charging.




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