Dial This Number Next Time You Get a Telemarketing Call, Then Watch Chaos Reign

[gigantes]

Robots, algorithms and machines sometimes seem designed to destroy us. They take our jobs, manipulate our Facebook News Feeds and rain death on foreign nations from across the world. But some robots can be heroes, saving us from the dreary agents of capitalism.

The Jolly Roger is such a bot, designed to lead telemarketers down a rhetorical maze to keep them busy until they're at their wits' end while you go on about your day.

Next time someone calls you for sales purposes, simply tap "add call." Dial 214-666-4321. Merge the calls. Then the Jolly Roger Telephone Co., a voice recording that will frustrate and confuse that telemarketer, will take over... (http://mic.com/articles/134244/call-jolly-roger-next-time-you-get-a-telemarketing-call-then-watch-chaos-reign#.DLcLAmOjE)


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"This is Sharon, your local Google Specialist!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DkF88BkpeE)


there's like 15 different encounters on his channel. :banana:

[Draz]

I've blocked like 10 telemarketers and all that BS from my home phone, but these MFERS came back with 10 different new numbers

EDIT: LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hilarious

[Draz]

http://jollyrogertelephone.com/how-to-send-your-telemarketers-to-this-robot/

When you get a call from a telemarketer and they ask something like “Mr. Jones?”, say “Oh, you want Mr. Jones? Sure hang on – he’s right here…” then,

Press “add call”
Dial my robot at 214-666-4321. While you’re dialing, keep chatting into your phone like you’re trying to get Mr. Jones (“yeah – phone for you”, “okay, he’s coming hang on…”, etc)
Press “Add call” or “Merge call” or “Conference” or whatever will add the robot to the conversation.
MUTE YOURSELF so your background noise doesn’t affect the conversation.
Listen to the call, and hang up when the telemarketer hangs up.

[LJJ]

Doesn't this shit work in the US? https://www.donotcall.gov/

We have this too and companies definitely abide by that shit.

[outbreak]

I don't really get telemarketers calling but I get energy company people coming to the door all the time. Either trying to get me to switch to their company or trying to sell me more solar panels.

Occasionally get foreign girls trying to sell art too, it's odd because it's happened like 3 times in the last 18 months or so and each time is a different girl with a different accent selling what is probably the same paintings in this big folio and telling me how they are here on exchange studying art from whatever country. I don't live near any unis/colleges that teach art either.

[gigantes]

Doesn't this shit work in the US? https://www.donotcall.gov/

We have this too and companies definitely abide by that shit.
most first-world countries have that, but obviously telemarketers are always working to circumvent that, and still succeeding on a regular basis. i mean, why wouldn't they, you know?

if you looked at his channel, you'll see a couple cases where the guy was able to identify right away that the caller was a spoofed number made to get around the 'do not call' list. i think one of those up there is where he gets that arab-sounding guy in to a foul-mouthed fury by the end of the call. :lol

after you listen to a couple of these, i think it's pretty funny how you hear the exact same programmed responses fooling telemarketer after telemarketer. of course some of them are relatively innocent and nice people on the whole, but... still.

[BasedTom]

I get calls where they immediately hang up for some reason. It's apparently not even that uncommon since I saw a segmenton the news about it

[gigantes]

I don't really get telemarketers calling but I get energy company people coming to the door all the time. Either trying to get me to switch to their company or trying to sell me more solar panels.

Occasionally get foreign girls trying to sell art too, it's odd because it's happened like 3 times in the last 18 months or so and each time is a different girl with a different accent selling what is probably the same paintings in this big folio and telling me how they are here on exchange studying art from whatever country. I don't live near any unis/colleges that teach art either.
outrbreak, you're in oz, right?

check out that video of the aussie guy who gets woken up ONE too many times on his weekend mornings by mormon missionaries knocking on his door.

eventually he follows up by taking a vacation to the american SW, including a visit to salt lake city, utah... where he spends some time knocking on mormons' doors in the early mornings of the weekend. his sales pitch for them is-- "have you thought about converting to atheism lately? really, have you??"

weirdly, none of them seem to have much sense of humor about the situation. :P

[outbreak]

outrbreak, you're in oz, right?

check out that video of the aussie guy who gets woken up ONE too many times on his weekend mornings by mormon missionaries knocking on his door.

eventually he follows up by taking a vacation to the american SW, including a visit to salt lake city, utah... where he spends some time knocking on mormons' doors in the early mornings of the weekend. his sales pitch for them is-- "have you thought about converting to atheism lately? really, have you??"

weirdly, none of them seem to have much sense of humor about the situation. :P
I'll have to check it out. I don't get mormons here I get christians now and then. There's one family that's come around maybe 5 times since I've lived here always in full suits and dressed up. They have 2 kids about 14ish and the kids look so ashamed to be door knocking and handing out bible study fliers.

The electricty guys annoy me the most, they hide from my window so I can't see who it is and they knock out a tune so I think it's one of my friends or something.