While we do not yet have a software update to talk about, we'd like to tell you a bit more about the idea we have been working on: INBOUND CALLS.
These are the features that are planned:
- INBOUND SCAMBAITING - This is something new and has never been done before on a calling platform. With our large phone number reservation pool, scammers with robodialers hit the phone numbers in this pool frequently, looking for victims. Instead of giving an error message over the line because the number is not connected to a real telephone, we will instead (and without the robocaller’s knowledge) offer the inbound call to anyone who is using BobRTC. This turns everyone who is logged into BobRTC and elects to accept inbound calls from robodialers into a phone agent.
This has MASSIVE implications for every trash robocaller on the planet. By doing inbound scambaiting we can now legally tie up groups that we normally avoid, namely debt collectors. Countless victims keep getting calls from bill collectors for debt that is not even theirs because most junk debt collectors do not prune and update the lists on their dialers. Large banks are also guilty of this. We can be far more powerful than NomoRobo and RoboKiller by offering inbound calls directly to any scambaiter who wants it.
This has been a dream for a lot of us to be able to get at scammers who do outbound-only operations and do not have an inbound number that we can dial. Now we can do both inbound and outbound scambaiting!
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We can assign you a personal telephone number, just like TextNow and FireRTC can. This phone number is on a lease, which requires you to stay actively scam-baiting to keep it. If you’re absent for too long of a time we will release the number back into the pool for another person to use.
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You can elect to send your phone number as the Caller ID or any other phone number we own as your Caller ID. We will also be making changes to limit the caller IDs that we send to scammers so that we limit the chances of a bad callback.
The BobRTC Team is very excited to start work on this feature. Today we forwarded the first blocks of DID numbers over to our Lenny bot to answer the phone. When we have the rest of the software in place, we will announce and deploy the feature so that you can accept inbound robocalls whenever you'd like.
@iScam#100194 We have a couple blocks pointing to Lenny right now so we can see how frequently they’re getting hit and then we’ll shop around to some more carriers who are willing to repoint their parked numbers to us.
The way it's being offered to them is as a "cleaning" service. You purchased a block of DIDs that are getting trashed with robocalls so you can't really release them to your customers until you get the robocalling volume to die down----so while you're not using them point them to us. Since they're not attached to a subscriber or equipment, there's ZERO obligation for any of us to tell the called party that. The called party was wardialing, or robodialing or trying to do skip tracing.
If we're fucking up their day by wasting their time, they should have pruned their stupid lists and be better about selecting who to call. Nomorobo already does this with their answer bots but bots are just never as effective as real scambaiters pretending to be interested in that vehicle warranty program.
Scammers and robocallers HATE HATE HATE us because we WANT to be on the phone with them, we record them and we laugh at them and clip their audio for social media.
The biggest thing I’m excited to get working is this feature—we can finally work on debt collectors LEGALLY and SAFELY if we’re inbound scambaiting.
The debt collection industry is also the biggest lobby after the big telecoms at the FCC and they are the ones pushing for unlimited robocalling and they keep trying to trick the FCC into rulemaking that gives them the right to call people 80+ times a day if they wish.
But if they screw up and call US 80 times a day that's 80-800 hours they just fucked themselves out of talking to us pretending to be that lady who didn't pay her cable bill 9 years ago and skipped town.
Companies like Nomorobo have screwed with debt collectors with their answer bots but companies have been building scanners that try to detect the DIDs that Nomorobo is using.
If we're using live scambaiters they have no fucking way to use AI to detect us at all. It's not possible programatically. :-) . The only way to stop it is to stop calling the number and take it out of the dialer (that is the "cleaning" effect that is likely to happen when robocallers hit our DID blocks).
Noice! BobRTC currently feels like a fishing expedition (but a really fun one), whereas inbound scammer calls would be like the fish throwing themselves into the boat.
Calling up scammers telling them some story about a POP UP, or a missed call on your phone is pretty good but to receive the calls as they come in is totally ANOTHER level of great!
Well done BobRTC, hit these painful robo-diallers right where they need it.
