{"id":98,"date":"2005-02-16T21:47:16","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T01:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=98"},"modified":"2005-02-16T21:47:16","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T01:47:16","slug":"asterisk-and-telemarketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Asterisk And Telemarketers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve been messing around (and doing a bit of consulting) with the open source PBX <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asterisk.org\/\">Asterisk<\/a> for a number of months now. Just found a great telemarketer torture script that whirls the telemarketer through a million menu options and sub menu options etc. Just classic stuff. The author doesn&#39;t seem to have a link to anything other than the actual sound files but I found the script <a href=\"http:\/\/voip-info.org\/wiki-Asterisk+Telemarketer+Torture\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You bet I&#39;ll be implementing this and when I answer a telemarketer call I&#39;ll just tell them to hold for a second while I transfer the call over to this!!!<\/p>\n<p>You can hear it by calling <strike>631.903.6963<\/strike> 631.492.3926. I&#39;ll likely leave it up for a few weeks unless it starts to cause a burden on the server. If you get some sort of Stanaphone voicemail prompt, hang up and try again as that means its not properly connecting to Asterisk.<\/p>\n<p>Note that some of the recordings are supposed to be garbled and lousy but I&#39;m not sure just yet how much is due to potential bandwidth limitations. I&#39;d actually like the recordings to be clear so that the telemarketer listens intently and keeps pressing menu options all day long.<\/p>\n<p>If you have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanaphone.com\/\">Stanaphone<\/a> (even the free version) you should be able to call the above number for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve been messing around (and doing a bit of consulting) with the open source PBX Asterisk for a number of months now. Just found a great telemarketer torture script that whirls the telemarketer through a million menu options and sub menu options etc. Just classic stuff. The author doesn&#39;t seem to have a link to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/techno\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}