I’m proud to report that my scambaiting robot is making decent progress at keeping scammers busy and frustrating them. For an example see: Wendy only wants to pay via amex - Instaudio
Wendy is completely automated and uses real time text to speech to respond to people. Sometimes the choices aren't that good...but it's still a work in progress. 10+ minute calls without any intervention or interaction are pretty common, with more tinkering and refinement the majority of calls will be over 10 minutes. Now that things are more refined, I'm looking for humans to volunteer and record lines for individual bots/personna's. The goal is to be able to keep scammers occupied with any army of unique sounding robots without them realizing these aren't actual victims. If you're interested in volunteering your voice for about 80 lines of dialogue, please let me know.
@bobHasAvirus#85589 brilliant and what a doofus he was. Why not just call and not bothering to interact with them? Aren’t you tying up thrift lines either way?
@FattyMatty#85596 Because they’ll know something is up. The goal is to occupy as much time as possible. If you send them a barrage of cows, they’ll know something is up immediately, shut down the number and move on. Whereas if you send an onslaught of bots that call and occupy time, it’s going to take them much longer to figure out what’s happening.
Indian scammers generally as a rule, are INCREDIBLY cheap people. When I hit them with regen dialing I'm trying hard NOT to talk to an agent. I want them to panic when they get their phone bill. $1,000 in lost VoIP credits can represent 5-10% of what the scammer's original equity was when they started their scam operation.
This makes it very easy to wage economic warfare against scammers.
Wendy is a new weapon in econ warfare.
People are the most expensive cost that an Indian scammer has. They have to pay incredibly high wages (for Indians) to keep the agents working there and from leaving. Scammers pay more money to their phone agents than most legit outsourcing companies in India pay their own employees to answer legit calls for customers from US/EU companies. The phone agents get burned out quickly and they know what they're doing is illegal. It's psychologically draining, which is abuse that young Indians are more willing to tolerate.
When you consume their TIME you're consuming their MONEY, at a very high rate. Yes: manual baiting is extremely effective, especially when a bunch of manual baiters are doing a raid. We've all seen it work when 4 or 5 manual baiters attack a number and try to get calls to stretch out for an hour.
Wendy (Bob's robot) is trying to simulate the same effectiveness as a team of several manual scambaiters conducting a raid on a number. The hope is that we can win multiple battles if not gain an advantage in the war during the worst parts of the week when there's a lot more scams going on then there are human scambaiters to tackle them.
10 minute calls are intensely unprofitable to a scammer. Not only is that agent knocked out but if three or four Wendys pop up simultaneously that might take out half or more available agents the scammer has---so they're paying them high wages to sit there and do nothing. Bob sending 5 Wendys to a number for 60 minutes with ACD of 10 minutes per call is 5 hours of downtime across 5 agents. If there were only 7 agents at that scam operation that means they were nearly completely wiped out. There's only 7-10 hours a day that a scammer might be targeting victims so that's an insanely effective weapon.
Any time the # of scambaiters actively working vs. scammer operations actively hunting for victims it causes the # of scammers to rapidly deteriorate. We all see that every weekend when it's so easy to get numbers to shut down and go dark on Saturdays and Sundays cuz the # of scambaiters taking a shift is several times greater on the weekend than, say a Friday.
@bobHasAvirus#85589 The idea is great. It’s a great way to waste a scammer’s time. 10 mins can cost them a customer too. But to be honest, I would still get them caught. I, too , am trying to find a solution for them. I am currently studying their behaviour and reactions to different situations . This would be awesome for call centres because it’s not only flooding them it is also occupying them. But at the end, I would be happier if they get caught instead. Nonetheless, great work.