The Robo Revenger threw in the towel a few years ago and (mostly) stopped answering our landline, and resents that spam calls are robbing our household of the receiving-end use of our own phone.
Thus we were pleased yesterday when a friend alerted us that a global telecommunications company currently valued at ~$25 billion has finally taken on the Robo Revenger mantle by inventing Daisy, "a chit-chat and kitty-cat loving artificial intelligence 'granny' who talks to scammers to keep them away from real people."
Daisy only works in the UK, but you have to start somewhere.
For old times' sake, here's an 8-yr-old recording during which Robo Revenger demonstrates epic skills:
About this video, I previously wrote:
In other news, alter ego Robo Revenger has returned. Robo Revenger responds to spam callers so they have less time to call you, dear readers. This fall, Robo Revenger spent a good ten minutes talking with pseudo-Mikrosofft scammers phishing from the Indian subcontinent. I managed to capture most of the conversation in a video recording (see below). The first 1.5 minutes are excellent; my high school classmates might enjoy the reference to Four Square just past 1:00. I'm also partial to the two minutes starting ~3:10. The first "f*&% you" is ~5:22. The stuff about how to count desktop icons ~5:35-7:03 is fabulous, yielding a nice stream of "f*&%-yous" ~7:04. The part from 7:00 to the end demonstrates how to remain chipper and polite in the face of adversity. Really, the whole thing is a Robo Revenger tour-de-force.
May the Force be with you, Daisy.
