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skepticalcommunity.com Forum Index » Banter » The number you have called...    View previous topic :: View next topic  The number you have called... Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:55 pm   Mulebear Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 10896 http://www.payphone-directory.org/sounds.html Getting a lot of calls from "survey" marketing companies that can legally get around the Do Not Call list? Use one of these messages on your answering machine. Simply monitor your caller ID for friends and family, or warn them about the message. Genius. Here is a good one... http://www.payphone-directory.org/sounds/wav/bell/operator.wav This one is devious... http://www.payphone-directory.org/sounds/wav/bell/dial1.wav I can see them getting very frustrated by that one. "But I DID dial a 1, goddamit." _________________ I Sonoma Bear Recently someone accused me of being insensitive. And I thought, how did this fat bitch get her wheelchair up the stairs to my house? Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:06 pm   Geni Anti-homeopathy illuminati member Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Posts: 5692 Location: UK Won't work. The use of robo dialers means that a human is unlikely to hear the first few seconds of the call. Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:26 pm   Doctor X Collective Mob of the Mean Messiah Joined: 04 Jun 2004 Posts: 32435 I like the ones telling you to deposit 25¢. --J.D. _________________ Mob of the Mean: Free beanie, cattle-prod and Charley Fan Club! "Doctor X is just treating you the way he treats everyone--as subhuman crap too dumb to breathe in after you breathe out."--Don "Doc, you're a star. Mwah"--sat556 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSX2!! NBA WORLD CHAMPIONS!! Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:30 pm   DrMatt Music doesn't melt in your ear, it explodes in your brain Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 19213 Location: Location: Location! I'm fairly close to hooking up this thing for use with telemarketers. Have never a telemarketer who knows what they're hearing when they hear it. _________________ Music: Splendor in Sound These two Fox morning monkeys are dancing on the tip of the shitberg. --Luke T If masturbation led to homosexuality you'd think by now I'd at least have better fashion sense. --Grayman The only thing worse than being told No is being told Yes out of laziness/incompetence as this can throw bad things into production environments. --Corplinx Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:34 pm   Grammatron The evil one Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 20880 Location: Los Angeles, CA Geni wrote: Won't work. The use of robo dialers means that a human is unlikely to hear the first few seconds of the call. Indeed. _________________ pillory wrote: jokes aren't funny....seriously thinking...... seriously thinking might be funny....but it's not joke Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:48 pm   Abdul Alhazred "If I turn in a sicko will I get a reward?" Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 32163 Location: Chicago A robodialer will automatically hang up when it hears the three tones that precede the "not a working number" message. _________________ "Yes! A BIG REWARD!" ====> The lack of a rational explanation is not evidence for an irrational explanation. Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:57 pm   grayman Heretic Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 1865 Location: Casa del Whacko Abdul Alhazred wrote: A robodialer will automatically hang up when it hears the three tones that precede the "not a working number" message. I've come home to the sound of a telemarketer on my answering machine saying, "Hello, I'd like to talk to grayman...hello?...Hello?" Sad that a robocaller has more sense than a human. _________________ And so with gods and men The sheep remain inside their pen, Though many times they've seen the way to leave. Genesis (the band not the book) Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:12 pm   Abdul Alhazred "If I turn in a sicko will I get a reward?" Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 32163 Location: Chicago grayman wrote: Sad that a robocaller has more sense than a human. Robodailers do not primarily exist to automate telemarketing. But ordinary home consumers would not be affected by them otherwise. _________________ "Yes! A BIG REWARD!" ====> The lack of a rational explanation is not evidence for an irrational explanation. Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:28 pm   jj Annoyed Truthteller Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 14117 Location: Kirkland, Wa I'd just record: I'm sorry, the number you have dialed does not accept any kind of solicitations or sales requests. Please hang up and report yourself to your local authorities for abuse of long-distance telephony. --- I've done that in real-time to some of them. Amazingly, most of them just vanish, click. awwww. If I'm feeling satistic, I give them to one of my offspring, who is likely to argue with them, pick holes in their arguments, tell them she's not interseted, they're idiots, they're mean, etc. And then hang up. _________________ I only LOOK like Jerry Garcia. Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:02 pm   Llacheu Solid Hg Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 1307 I have a device that played the "Not a valid number" tones. It worked well with telemarketers. _________________ In fact, 10,500 BC was the first time Orion's belt was ever visible in the night sky and the alignment is perfect. If you deny this you simply are a holocaust denier. - Kilik Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:44 pm   DrMatt Music doesn't melt in your ear, it explodes in your brain Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 19213 Location: Location: Location! I've had a telemarketer call me repeatedly, so on his third call I asked whether he was calling for gay sex. He hung up on me and left me alone. _________________ Music: Splendor in Sound These two Fox morning monkeys are dancing on the tip of the shitberg. --Luke T If masturbation led to homosexuality you'd think by now I'd at least have better fashion sense. --Grayman The only thing worse than being told No is being told Yes out of laziness/incompetence as this can throw bad things into production environments. --Corplinx Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:37 pm   Cloverlief Me by Me Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Posts: 2887 Location: Here, there or somewhere Abdul Alhazred wrote: A robodialer will automatically hang up when it hears the three tones that precede the "not a working number" message. Actually, not true. When I worked as a telemarketer (awful job, btw), I got a lot of those messages. _________________ Chani Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:14 pm   Abdul Alhazred "If I turn in a sicko will I get a reward?" Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 32163 Location: Chicago See this: http://artofhacking.com/files/sounds/ Lots of phreaking phun. Scroll down to "SIT Tones". I have used one of these to good effect. _________________ "Yes! A BIG REWARD!" ====> The lack of a rational explanation is not evidence for an irrational explanation. Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:25 pm   asthmatic camel Cheese Gong Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 7585 Location: Like, way out there, man. Crude, but inexpensive and effective... _________________ AC reminds me of a wierd uncle. -clarsct. 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