-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anyone have the telemarketer torture prompts? I would seriously like to revive this..... - -- James Finstrom -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH3I8qdloC7YyaIOoRAlAjAJ9Hp+3SS2Z8179HecWIETp4RVDzWQCeMizp fW2JPZdYl/uxG1ziUwYnHGo=QPbv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
James Finstrom wrote:> Anyone have the telemarketer torture prompts? I would seriously like > to revive this..... >Weasels and Monkeys work well for this. I put up one extension that uses Monkeysintro then Monkeys and loops. The other extension uses somethingwrong then weasels and again loops back around. I just forward them to one of those two extensions. If callerid worked more reliably I would automate it. But I get a lot of caller id failures on my incoming POTS lines, esp when calling in from my cell phone. Lyle
James Finstrom wrote:> Anyone have the telemarketer torture prompts? I would seriously like torevive this..... I created a simple "hold forever" loop, thus: [tele_loop] exten => s,1,Answer() exten => s,2,Set(DEVSTATE(Custom:telepark)=INUSE) exten => s,3,WaitMusicOnHold(15) exten => s,4,Wait(1) exten => s,5,Playback(pls-hold-while-try) exten => s,6,Wait(0.25) exten => s,7,Goto,3 exten => h,1,Set(DEVSTATE(Custom:telepark)=NOT_INUSE) exten => h,n,Hangup() ; If anything goes wrong, quit the loop exten => i,1,Set(DEVSTATE(Custom:telepark)=NOT_INUSE) exten => i,n,Hangup() When I get a call from a telemarketer, I either manually dump them into the loop (via an extension defined elsewhere) , or I can drop them into it using CLID. This plays music for 15 seconds, then asks them to wait while we try to put you through, repeat... The 1 second gap between the music ending & the announcement beginning is designed to make them think someone's answered. I may need to tune it up to 2 seconds, I'm not sure yet. The devstate Custom:telepark is used so I can monitor if someone's in the loop using a lamp on my phone :) It's not perfect: the loop can hold an indefinite number of calls, but the lamp goes out when the first one exits. Mind you, having the lamp causes its own problems: I tend to find that instead of getting on with my work (which was the plan), I end up timing how long they wait until they give up (record: approx. 18 minutes) instead. So maybe I need to make Asterisk put some tracking information into a database, so I can just run a report at the end of each day :-) Cheers, Ade. (PS: The pls-hold-while-try is either a standard Asterisk sound, or comes with the Asterisk-Addons package, I forget which.) (PPS: I use Asterisk 1.4 with the DEVSTATE patch applied) No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.7/1328 - Release Date: 13/03/2008 11:31
James Finstrom wrote:> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Anyone have the telemarketer torture prompts? I would seriously like > to revive this..... > > - --I wrote one a while back that uses Cepstral TTS, but the mechanics are simple. When a telemarketer calls, I say "hmmm, that sounds pretty good, can you hold for a sec?" Telemarketer gets transferred to a context that plays a cepstral voice saying "You have just been added to our Do not call list. Please add us to yours. Further attempts to contact us from your number are being recorded". Then adds the CID to a SQLite database and simply hangs up. The number is stored in a database at that point and if they call again they get Ceptral William saying "Sorry, you have been added to our do not call database. "You have been asked previously to place us on your do not call list. Each attempt to contact us by your number are being recorded and may be used in legal proceedings." Hang up. I've only had a couple actually call back. One called back about 6 times and my guess was that he was showing co-workers/managers the implementation we put in place or just got a kick out of it. I just shot off a letter to my Attorney General's office with the log and never heard from them again. -- Warm Regards, Lee "Everything I needed to learn in life, I learned selling encyclopedias door to door."
James Finstrom wrote:> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Anyone have the telemarketer torture prompts? I would seriously like > to revive this..... > > - -- > James Finstrom > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFH3I8qdloC7YyaIOoRAlAjAJ9Hp+3SS2Z8179HecWIETp4RVDzWQCeMizp > fW2JPZdYl/uxG1ziUwYnHGo> =QPbv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >Hi James, I have a copy of the prompts. Will the list accept attachments? regards, Drew -- Drew Gibson Systems Administrator OANDA Corporation www.oanda.com