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I would pay $0.01 a minute to forward calls to something like this. (Up to $1/call or something)

I'm invisioning a marketplace of chatbots trying to pass the turing test (ideally armed with cancelled credit card numbers, fake postal addresses and bogus identities -- and willing to do absolutely anything to waste the callers time).

The beauty of it is that normal spam calls have assymetric economics in favor of the spammer.

A team of chatbots turns the economics around.



$2/month or $6/year.

http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/

You can pick a specific chatbot: http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/pick-a-robot


I wish there was a service like this in Australia.


Aftee some years, the spammers will all be robots too, leading to an amazing world of robots arguing with robots over the phone, both pretending to be human.


Almost all the cold calls I get now are bots where you have to press some button or say some keyword to get to a real person.


Sometimes I like to request a human just to waste their time. Organizations shouldn't be able to harass people for free.




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