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Restoring Service After Updating Your iPhone to iOS 17

Whenever you update your iPhone to a new iOS level, Apple resets the forwarding on your phone so that our service seems to stop working. This is because you are no longer forwarding your unanswered calls to us. They will have erased the settings you entered when you first setup our service. The [ ]

Now GPT-Powered! Jolly Roger Telephone in the Wall Street Journal

The buzz around ChatGPT has taken over the world! Like most people in technology, I have been blown away by ChatGPT-4 and I have been working on ways to integrate it into the Jolly Roger Telephone network. While I was working on it, I was contacted by a reporter with the Wall Street Journal asking [ ]

Calls From Your Bank about Zelle are Probably Scams!

I recently found myself in the situation where I wanted to send some money to my adult son. We don t use the same bank, but I thought, hey, with today s online banking this should be easy . So I turned to to Zelle, the peer-to-peer payment app that is supported by my bank and is [ ]

Telephony Easter Eggs in Movies

Whenever I watch a movie, I m always on the lookout for telephone numbers. By now, I think we all know the 555 prefix is used for fake Hollywood numbers. I learned recently that not all 555 numbers are available for fake usage. Some of you may remember you could call information in another area by [ ]

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Publisher’s Clearing House gives a car to a Jolly Roger bot

Hello All! Yes, that was a crazy 2020. I hope you re all well. In this call, we have a Publisher s Clearing House impersonator. This scam seems so far-fetched. In fact, I just looked them up to determine if they still give all this money away. Oops I spelled their name as clearinghouse in the [ ]

Air Duct Telemarketer Chats with a Robot about Rock & Roll

Hello all! You have probably heard these Air Duct telemarketers. If not, you are very lucky. For some reason Canada is a magnet for this scam, so our sympathies go out to the Great White North. Anyway, this particular telemarketer sound extremely nice. And it just so happens that this robot, Ox-Gut McGee, asks a [ ]

Social Security scammer thwarted by a robot

Hello all! Here at the Jolly Roger Telephone Company, our mission is to fight telemarketing by intercepting the telemarketers and engaging them with robots. This call is a great example of our technology. The caller is a social security scammer. The beginning announcement is so crazy that I am shocked and very sad that this [ ]

Bored Telemarketer chats with a Robot for a while

Hello all! As I write this, we are in our tenth week of March 2020. I hope you are all healthy during this Time of Isolation. For this latest call, we have a telemarketer who was intercepted by Kim the Kraken. Kim is a great bot who is recovering from pneumonia (she had a terrible [ ]

Publisher’s Clearinghouse scammer gets pretty nasty with a robot

Hello All! As I write this, we are all hunkering down in our shelters to avoid Coronavirus. I hope you are all well and healthy. The telemarketers aren t stopping. Unfortunately, many are taking advantage of this time we are probably a lot more likely to answer the phone nowadays. Here at the Jolly Roger [ ]

Happy 2020 to this Medicare Scammer!

Happy New Year 2020 everyone! I love the new year because I get to publish this bot for a few weeks. This is Jolly Jenny , but she is talking all about New Year s Resolutions in this iteration. Sometimes the telemarketers participate, but in this call we have a Medicare scammer who is extremely persistent. But [ ]