tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post8545952465218428519..comments2011-11-25T08:36:10.008ZRevKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-35691597500334012212011-11-25T03:00:43.956Z2011-11-25T03:00:43.956ZVery entertaining article I enjoyed reading it.<br /><a href="http://www.retellrecorders.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">call recording</a>Timmy.Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293553391999911524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-49516687270947559242010-08-12T15:06:21.453+01:002010-08-12T15:06:21.453+01:00I&#39;m truly inspired - gonna implement this at work tomorrow!Ellishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14561888899172332294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-56506619805009898802010-07-18T19:38:56.279+01:002010-07-18T19:38:56.279+01:00All comments welcome - if it was a simple fix in the file types that would have been great. Thanks for commenting.RevKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-58217063648401070272010-07-18T19:36:59.355+01:002010-07-18T19:36:59.355+01:00@RevK - yes, I saw that too, so I can&#39;t figure it out. All I can tell you is when I downloaded it via the browser, it sounded garbled, but then I used NetXfer and forced binary mode, I could hear the audio. Might be something my end, and I don&#39;t know how to fix it, but that&#39;s what worked for me.<br />Sorry to clog up your guest book, but now I&#39;ve heard the recordings, that&#39;s one of the most genius things I&#39;ve heard lately!digitaltoasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14405617051639269267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-77815896735729659752010-07-18T19:35:10.476+01:002010-07-18T19:35:10.476+01:00Ha! That is genius!digitaltoasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14405617051639269267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-61617606133067982572010-07-18T19:34:20.289+01:002010-07-18T19:34:20.289+01:00Oooh, interesting. It should be saying content type audio/mpeg as the file type. HTTP has no &quot;binary/text&quot; setting other than the content type.<br /><br />In fact I have just tested and it does indeed say &quot;Content-Type: audio/mpeg&quot; which should do the trick.<br /><br />If you know some specific header that we should send, happy to investigate more.RevKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369263214193333422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-49929477816401786602010-07-18T19:28:35.849+01:002010-07-18T19:28:35.849+01:00I just worked it out - your server appears to be serving the file as ascii, not binary. When I manually got the file with binary setting, it worked fine. You should be able to change this in .htaccessdigitaltoasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14405617051639269267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-64389500230130579532010-07-18T19:10:43.089+01:002010-07-18T19:10:43.089+01:00Dammit, it sounds like these could be quite fun, but I can&#39;t get the audio to play on anything I try.<br />Firefox, Chrome, mplayer etc... it&#39;s all totally garbled. mplayer shows it as<br />Bitrate 24 kbps<br />Rate 8000 Hz<br />which doesn&#39;t look right at all. Any chance you could try re-encoding them, or let me know how I can hear them?digitaltoasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14405617051639269267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-37850879825409622662010-07-12T20:58:40.841+01:002010-07-12T20:58:40.841+01:00Well done. I love messing with telemarketing companies. For some reason they won&#39;t stop calling me. I&#39;ve asked them to stop, but they don&#39;t. I&#39;ve posted some of my calls here: <br /><br />http://keepcallingme.blogspot.com/They keep calling mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912636556411196654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-69576147110844741122010-07-12T18:02:30.024+01:002010-07-12T18:02:30.024+01:00I did an FoI enquiry to the ICO to see what happens to TPS complaints. In brief - its subcontracted to representatives of the Telemarketing industry. If they get repeat complaints about the same caller they ask them to desist. If complaints continue they get a tougher message. No telemarketer has ever been fined (or imprisoned) for abuse of TPS.<br />As filling in the complaints forms has no result but wastes more of my time than telling the caller to **** Off I stopped filling the forms.<br /><br />Blocking &quot;Number withheld&quot; callers has a problem, I need to respond to legitimate international non-English speaking. Also I&#39;ve had CLI saying the callers numbers is a string of zeros so presumably they can fake CLI, possibly even to show a genuine number that&#39;s not theirs.<br />Some sales calls are now originating from USA and India so even if TPS worked they&#39;d be outside its juristriction.<br />IMHO telcos should be required to provide ICO with CLI for number withheld if the complainant provides date time and recieving number.faganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07487197027034349682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-76487177903877533022010-07-12T14:57:30.481+01:002010-07-12T14:57:30.481+01:00If you have the time and inclination, may I also point everyone to &quot;CounterScript&quot; an A4 PDF document containing a script you can use to turn the tables on any telemarketer. I&#39;ve used it from time to time with usually very funny results. http://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/english/counterscript.pdf <br /><br />steve.Stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14293908916240463532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-75978132842211938922010-07-12T13:04:23.359+01:002010-07-12T13:04:23.359+01:00I actually got a junk call while listening to this. Spooky. Well done for doing this. Clever idea.martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08012187430951779791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-45127855919856748512010-07-12T09:09:38.779+01:002010-07-12T09:09:38.779+01:00P.s. I have about 10,000 currently unallocated uk geo numbers I would be happy to add to your honeypot if you want to have 4,010,000 numbers waiting to serve the direct marketing industry!Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05144150041746578813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-45758100330397476552010-07-12T08:45:30.263+01:002010-07-12T08:45:30.263+01:00Thnk this honey pot is brilliant and will be experimenting with it on my aaisp account! Wondered if you could perhaps have an extra option for those of us that get lots of international and large organizations calling that had an audio capatchca style escape option - e.g. Explaning we are tryingto avoid junk calls, they have withheld their number and so we are Asking caller to key in sum of 2+2 ?Richardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05144150041746578813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-82612490275299219112010-07-12T05:00:40.681+01:002010-07-12T05:00:40.681+01:00Sad to see you&#39;ve actually spent time doing this, its nowhere near this bad in australia and the ACMA do actually take DNCR (do not call register) breaches seriously. <br /><br />Hopefully you get some kind of response in lower call volumes.Boo and Yah let their powers combinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14512451185000163631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-85714601599508848042010-07-11T19:29:25.179+01:002010-07-11T19:29:25.179+01:00Fabulous, absolutely fabulous! I am deeply impressed.. I shall choose to utilize SIT.WAV for a few of my lines, since that will help get a few of those calls away... <br />My favorite one is when they call and ask for Mrs K, would be to respond, &quot;Who&#39;s calling, please?&quot;. When they say who they are, I allow my voice to crack as I respond &quot;She was murdered this morning as she was [going to Church/visit her mother, Taking kids to daycare, etc.) by [A speeding police car, Drunk Driver, gang banger, etc.]..&quot;.. My favorite one would be when the telemarketers called for a local &quot;Police Charity&quot; and I was able to use the &quot;murdered by a reckless police officer&quot; line.. A little verbal rage in my tone would probably help..<br />The other option (US-only, I believe?) would be to hit the &quot;STAR&quot; key on your phone keypad as fast as you can for 5 seconds as soon as you detected the pause after saying &quot;Hello&quot;... That also registers as an invalid # (I&#39;ve used it effectively numerous times). <br /><br />Of course, you can always say, &quot;You have reached a business.. Place us on your Do Not Call List immediately&quot; and they have to (at least in the US).Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17558003884743392016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-19230689436928315982010-07-11T17:01:33.529+01:002010-07-11T17:01:33.529+01:00I applaud your honeypot use of reserved numbers. Had I your resources, I might do the same.<br /><br />In the US, at least, you can get some relief on a private line by prepending SIT tones (three notes in somewhat-shy-of-an-octave, a signal that the call&#39;s gone wrong, usually followed by &quot;We&#39;re sorry, but...&quot;) to your outgoing greeting message. In listening to the result (we screen calls this way), I&#39;d say that:<br /><br />- Some autodialers immediately drop the line, presuming the call&#39;s gone wrong. Maybe they note the number in their tables as defective, which is a win.<br /><br />- Other autodialers, not attuned to SIT tones, trigger their recorded pitch, presuming that was the end-of-message beep; if their pitch is already partway through when your greeting ends, it&#39;s a safe bet you didn&#39;t need to hear it at all.<br /><br />- To normal callers who notice it at all, it&#39;s a source of amusement.<br /><br />SIT.WAV is out there, just Google it. It&#39;s simple enough to splice that and the outgoing speech together in an audio editor before feeding to an answering-machine.crb3http://www.blogger.com/profile/04695539344393481093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-13837669339066790602010-07-11T16:59:38.150+01:002010-07-11T16:59:38.150+01:00@hegeraat reminds me of when I was a teen, I had my mail client set up to get mail every half hr. Anything that hit the spam box, would get an auto reply with &quot;Remove, Unsubscribe&quot; and a few other things. One spammer would auto reply to my auto reply. So they were getting 48 auto responses from me. They reported me to my isp, I got an e-mail from my isp that someone had complained about getting flooded. I explained to my isp what happened and they thanked me and added another company to the black list.<br /><br />Also where can I dl the blocked caller ID mp3 with out telemarketer&#39;s voice? I&#39;d like to set up my Google Voice acct to auto send any blocked calls to the recording.<br /><br />I used to use TrapCall (used to be free) If you get a blocked call just fwd to the trap call # (an 800 #) it would fwd back to you with the caller id usually. I don&#39;t get enough calls for it to be worth paying for.<br /><br />When the National Do Not Call list started I signed up. I was getting many calls at the time from Miss Cleo (psychic hotline) and Sears Vinyl siding. The Do Not Call list has an exemption for Surveys, Politicians, and Non Profit Charities or something. None of the calls stopped, they just reworded to &quot;would you like to take a quick survey?&quot; I reported the Abuse of the Loop holes, and it stopped with in a few months.<br /><br />Would love to see every unassigned number worldwide set up as a honeypot, until someone figures out a better use.opticbithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00338861921691965988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-55683429809515509342010-07-11T16:47:34.732+01:002010-07-11T16:47:34.732+01:00Neither of the MP3&#39;s will play, all I get is what sounds like a distorted cassette tape being &quot;eaten&quot; by the player.a61sunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03227076317142842983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-23053926301747342922010-07-11T16:32:09.782+01:002010-07-11T16:32:09.782+01:00How many individual callers are there do you think, in your &quot; collection&quot;? Wouldn&#39;t it be fun to hook on some voice id software and tailor the recording to the caller? Think of the possibilities!nicholashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07810609836540096057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-56277672905172345122010-07-11T08:27:58.291+01:002010-07-11T08:27:58.291+01:00Nice.<br /><br />Can I make a few suggestions?<br /><br />1) Route multiple spam callers together and have them talk to each other (perfect!)<br /><br />2) They may try and figure out how to ignore your numbers, can you instead of playing the same message over and over (which their operators will learn to listen out for), generate speech from a computer or audio clips to do the initial &#39;Hello&#39;? That way they still need to listen further to figure out if its a dud call or not<br /><br />I really wish you&#39;d do #2; and record the results of the two spam callers talking to each other!!Plasmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07380994974715526439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-38202099184425012872010-07-11T00:41:21.326+01:002010-07-11T00:41:21.326+01:00please post moar!!!Azendelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910736337981086669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-78169977359966256032010-07-11T00:41:21.325+01:002010-07-11T00:41:21.325+01:00Please post moar!!!!Azendelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17910736337981086669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-34740209819121625732010-07-11T00:09:25.286+01:002010-07-11T00:09:25.286+01:00I like the idea of conferencing the telemarketing phone calls. But lets take it a step further. Setup a webpage where internet users can take the call and allow others to listen in. Sell ad&#39;s to support the site.Fiverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17857252425401156476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993498847203183398.post-53659333275683987312010-07-10T22:54:57.767+01:002010-07-10T22:54:57.767+01:00This is GENIUS. Pure GENIUS. You could finance this by making recorded calls available on your site, for entertainment. visitors could be inivted to donate. I&#39;m sure renting all these lines isn&#39;t cheap!<br /><br />I detest these telemarketers so much, whare you&#39;re doing is great. I&#39;m so glad The Register covered it, otherwise I would never have seen it.22http://www.blogger.com/profile/15702626764385777700noreply@blogger.com