O2 comes up wiqth a new way to annoy scammers

IA bot that imitates "Grandma" to scammers. Pretty funny. https://petapixel.com/2024/11/15/this-grandma ... or-hours-daisy/

Love that idea and the vid clip. Jim Browning is involved and that is a very good sign. Be great to have that here.

I expect it won't take long for the scammers to recognize the voice, but the developers of this program will probably move on to having a variety of voices.

I guess if we can't have the "Bee Keeper" solution then this is the next best thing?

Absolutely delightful.  She sounds just like me!

This program just got written up in the New York Times yesterday.

Pity they dont come up with a version for the general public to use.

The article does not mention what resources O2 has expended in doing this, but you can be sure that doing this and being able to have it sound lifelike and respond to the callers in real-time would exceed the capabilities of modern home computers and current cell phones.

Cute. Sounds a little like what jollyrogertelephone.com is doing in the US, although the latter is a small-scale operator "Roger the Phone Guy" and not a major carrier. And then there's the "Lenny" bot  described at toao.net/Humor/lenny.html

I had a number which was unusable for four years because of unsolicited calls from fly-by-night bill collectors. I used voip.ms to take just the numbers which were in my address book and send them somewhere reasonable. The rest I either sent to Jolly Roger's bots or forwarded right back to where they came from. I got one hilarious recording where a scummy debt collector ends up talking to a real person at the same dodgy collection agency and very abruptly decides to stop calling.