Jolly Roger Telephone Company

I decided that telemarketers deserve a cruel fate, so I programmed an artificially intelligent bot that keeps them on the line for as long as possible.

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

For the nerds! @rogerbanderson spoke about the Jolly Roger Telephone Company at SIPNOC 2025 in DC. Roger was honored to speak with carriers, regulators, and telecom insiders about our unique methods to fight telemarketing. https://t.co/CbuovO6lKS

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

https://t.co/f2nPmnwr2p has been a great partner for Jolly Roger Telephone. We're thrilled they found success at Meta, but bummed that we won't be able to use them anymore. We're evaluating @elevenlabs now.

[Some Guy @randy_marsh97]

@BasedTorba Wife and I use @JollyRogerTelCo to tie these losers up with AI so they can’t call anyone else!

[Believe On Jesus Christ @BelieveOnJesus]

@PhilHollowayEsq I use a service called @JollyRogerTelCo . It answers spam calls with AI and keeps them talking to waste their time. You'll get off their lists real quick after a few of those. It costs 2 bucks a month.

https://t.co/IpBP1kdTJs

[Hatenabito⊿ ۞ @JordanGuatqui]

@carbonmfg @VVenerabilis One sufficiently gullible mark out of a hundred scam calls is probably enough for them to turn a tidy profit.

If you’re getting their calls and you have a little time on your hands, have some fun stringing them along as long as possible. Or let @JollyRogerTelCo do it for you.

[Darragh Grove-White @Darraghgw]

📞 Americans received over 70 billion robocalls in 2024. That's about 211 calls per person

It's time to fight back - enter Jolly Roger @JollyRogerTelCo ($1.99/mth)

Think of Jolly Roger as your personal army of chatbots designed to waste scammers' time.

Check it out here:

https://t.co/bQSuJy5KTh

This product is easy to gift and set up for your parents and elderly relatives.

Pro Tip: Record and save your favorite bot conversations. They make great educational material for teaching others about scam tactics.

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

Any Mike Sandman fans out there?

[Roger Anderson @rogerbanderson]

I found a Mike Sandman catalog from 1997. This was my version of a Sharper Image catalog. I looked forward to receiving these while developing my telecom career in California. RIP #mikesandman. Your legacy lives on.

[Roger Anderson @rogerbanderson]

I used to watch the Rockford Files with my dad. I have re-discovered it and enjoying a time capsule of Los Angeles in the 1970s (and I think of my dad). Before the "fake 555" numbers were formally defined, you'd catch moments like this. One big 555 number and some smaller numbers. In the 1970s, the second digit of a number could not be a 0 or 1, so notice the use of local area codes 213 and 714 as prefixes. These were invalid numbers at the time. Some of the smaller numbers are valid. I would be thrilled if my telephone number appeared in an old TV show. Nowadays, 555 numbers are only fake in the 555-01xx range*

*I remember having to unblock a 555 number from a telephone system I managed when a local Audi dealer got an 800 number in the 555 range. Until then, I thought 555 was always invalid.

#rockfordfiles

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

@JimBrowning11 This is amazing, Jim! You provide such great service to the world. We've been following you for many years and we're excited to see AI deployed as a "good guy". If you're game, we can get Daisy answering US telephone numbers as an experiment with Jolly Roger Telephone service

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

@xphacter @davepl1968 This is amazing, Dave! Your voice sounds great, and there's no latency??? Would you like to hear it answer some real telemarketer scammer calls? We get plenty of them - we can send some to your virtual Dave.

[Goodness Exchange @goodnessXchange]

@JollyRogerTelCo uses #AI bots to waste a telemarketer's time in a brilliantly entertaining way. But what's even better? It helps divert harmful unwanted calls away from our loved ones that are most susceptible to scammers!

Full #podcast episode here >> https://t.co/l2AL3aREC5

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

Don't bother hanging up on telemarketers. They'll just call back tomorrow. Why would they stop?

Use our robots to chat them up. Use Jolly Roger Telephone service to replace your mobile's voicemail. Humans leave a message, scammers get a robot. Transfer the pain. If they're smart, they'll stop calling you. If not, you get a laugh every time.

[Roger Anderson @rogerbanderson]

THE MYTH THAT NEVER DIES: "Don't say yes to a telemarketer"

Somehow this story is circulating again. I've been tracking it closely for eight years and I cannot find any case of a telemarketer using your recorded "yes" to scam you. I don't even know how that could possibly work. How hard is it to scrape any influencer's voice or even clone a voice at this point? The BBB uses words like "could" and "might". If you know of any confirmed case of a scammer using this technique, please tell me?

In the meantime, use @JollyRogerTelCo and a crew of my AI-powered robots will answer your scammers and keep them busy. Results are hilarious. Non-scammers get regular voicemail.

https://t.co/m4rQfH5r4S via @usatoday

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

@DerekCulberson Could it just be DHCP? Can you set a static address?

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

This is the most heartbreaking story of phone scamming we have ever heard. If you're concerned that your elderly loved-ones are susceptible to this, please consider letting @JollyRogerTelCo intercept those scammers. https://t.co/xMgbtoZ3Ru

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

You know that "hello hello <bleep>" process when telemarketers call? @JollyRogerTelCo breaks that machine. It's called a "predictive dialer" and its job is to get YOU on THEIR phone. Imagine a world where the spammers (just the spammers) get robots every time. That's what we do.

[Roger Anderson @rogerbanderson]

Alas, another example of how toothless the regulators are when it comes to #telemarketing. The @FCC identifies a #telemarketer (generating BILLIONS of calls), the @FCC imposes a fine of $10 million. The telemarketer says "we're broke", "we're not doing what you accuse us of", and "we agree not to do it anymore", and there's ZERO FINE. Maybe they shut down the company. Maybe they re-form another with the same tech and new names. But you and I keep getting telemarketing calls.

Want to actually fight these spammers and love your phone again? Let my @JollyRogerTelCo AI-powered robots intercept your spammers and waste their time. Only the humans reach you. I guess private industry needs to fix this. I'm trying.

Here's the article: FTC reaches settlement with XCast Labs over illegal robocalls https://t.co/CNfqY1VMKo

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

Do you ever feel like blocking telemarketers is like whack-a-mole? They just call again from a different number. The @FCC plays a similar game with telco carriers. They identify a carrier routing telemarketer traffic and tell them to stop. If they don't respond, the FCC tells all the other carriers to stop routing their traffic. The process takes a while to discover, research, issue a warning, wait for a response, then issue a "stop carrying this carrier's traffic". It's not a great system but that's what we have so far.

As consumers, we're cheering on the FCC and I wish them well. In the meantime, you can use Jolly Roger Telephone robots to embrace those telemarketers and keep them busy. You don't have to do a thing. We'll chat them up for you and hurt their productivity.

Here's the article from Ars Technica: https://t.co/Z7Ovvbm8PC

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

ChatGPT-powered robot chats with a Medicare phone scammer

Hello Pirates and Privateers! This is a call between a Medicare phone scammer and a robot powered by @OpenAI's #ChatGPT (using @Speechmatics as the "ears" and @play_ht as the "voice"). There's a very brief intro and then 12 glorious minutes of wasted scammer time with "Jolly Jenny GPT". Then there's some goofy commentary from me that you can ignore. The magic of ChatGPT is all in the superprompt. This one mixes fashion and restaurant trends into a fun set of interaction.

I assume you hate unsolicited telemarketing too. If you want us to turn your telemarketers into entertainment, please check us out at https://t.co/YuHqAK9eZK. Thanks for listening!
🏴‍☠️☎️🦜

[Courthouse News @CourthouseNews]

Robocalls are a seemingly inescapable feature of modern life.

In the 8/22 ep. of @SidebarCNS, @Bright_lamp will examine why legislatures and courts have been unable to conquer the problem, and how @rogerbanderson is using AI to fight back.

Subscribe:
https://t.co/zJlvKvSMFn

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

@knowles_joseph @WaagBooks Yes, we're here and have lots of robots powered by chatgpt. Our job is to keep telemarketers busy and get you to love your phone again.

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

@BearDown5434 Thank you! We do have a line of "bizbots" that are great for transferring/merging your annoying cold callers at work. https://t.co/KnoBfgFjWb

[Jolly Roger Telephone Company @JollyRogerTelCo]

Huge mention! Thank you, Cory!

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Take the @JollyRogerTelCo, who sell chatbots that will pretend to be tantalyzingly confused marks in order to tie up telemarketers and waste their time:

https://t.co/XpkiusTzRb

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