Lenny is a chat bot designed to drive telemarketers crazy, or at least keep them on the phone and prevent them from calling another line. It is quite simple, with only 16 recorded phrases in total, four to make it sound like he is interested in whatever is being sold and 12 which loop until the caller gives up. The bot waits for a pause of a second and a half or more before playing the next comment, in slow and muffled Australian accent. Motherboard had a chat with the person who currently curates the bot, who goes by the moniker Mango, about the bot and how successful it is.
If you are curious on how to make use of Lenny, for bothering telemarketers and not pranking, you can get some info on this Reddit thread. Again, just skip this if you are only interested in a prank, as it ties up the lines and means telemarketers can continue to call real people to scam them.
"Lenny is a decade-old chatbot designed to troll telemarketers that has developed a cult following online. It’s remarkably convincing, but is it actually effective?"
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No they just need to turn on
No they just need to turn on the IP to stop any and all phone number spoofing and that will put an end to most Robo-Calls and even the scam artists use automated voice systems at first call expecting the suckers to press 1 and then the human scammers go to work.
Just disable any phone number spoofing and that will put an end to most all telemarketer’s ignoring the do not call list. And All telemarketers should be forced to pay for phone service by the minute at double the rate with half going to the phone company and half going to the person that was called by the telemarketer.
That way folks that pay for their phone service by the minute will not lose money every time a telemarketer calls them. Telemarketers who call any numbers that are on the do not call list are fined $2.00 per call with half going to the phone company and half going to the phone customer’s account. With any repeated violations fined double.
Make all telemarketers have to be registered and post large cash/escrow accounts in order to optain metered phone service.
They will stop bothering folks if each violation results in more money for the Phone Companies and more money paid to the recipients of unwanted telemarketing calls. Overseas operations that want to make any US calls will have to post double cash/escrow accounts held in a US bank or have their services blocked in the US.
All Telemarketing employees need to be Registered with the state and subject to having to log on to a monitoring system that tracks their calls by their Telemarketer Employee ID number. Make the telemarketing companies pay for all the monitoring via required state fees and even per call taxes to pay for the monitoring expense. Make Telemarketing just like Driving/Driver licensing with plenty of taxes/fees/bonds tacked on to cover all that annoying intursion into people’s lives.
Now let’s just Ban all Online Video Ads and Ads with scripts that interfere with any user UI/browsing experience. Ads will be forbidden to hijack the Browser’s UI and any sorts of interfering/holding up of the composition of any web page content. All that annoying ad based Browser UI trickery needs to be regulated out of existance with loads of fines for any violators.
Tax online ads by the ad and require all ad script writers to be registered with the state with the ad company responsible for any fines along with any ad script writers that will lose their license to work for ad companies if they have too many violations. Make the ad scrit kiddies have to be linecsed and registered just like truck drivers have to be, ditto for the ad companies that they work for.
And he’s a founding fragging
And he’s a founding fragging frog. Pretty bad ass Lenny
When it is available in other
When it is available in other languages than solely English, I take two. 🙂
Brilliant idea, I would love to hear a recording of such phone call exchange.
It is such a menace that you can call them (mental) terrorists. For sure you can sue them under some stalking or metal cruelty paragraph.
I know of a guy in UK from few years back that recorded all of that crap calls, went to court and won.
Um… you forgot to put the
Um… you forgot to put the umlaut dots in "Metal Crüelty".
LOL … and check the Reddit
LOL … and check the Reddit thread for how to reach out to the current curator, they may love the idea of recording more languages.