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In spite of attempts to curb the practice, telemarking and scam calls are becoming an epidemic. However, one particular group of internet dwellers have chosen to fight fire with fire, as they've developed a chat bot designed to annoy telemarketers. The original creator of "Lenny" remains anonymous, but Motherboard interviewed the person currently maintaining the chatbot's public server, as well as a "researcher who has studied Lenny's effectiveness as an anti-spam tool."
Check out a video of Lenny messing with a scammer here.
"Every minute that Lenny is on the phone with a scammer is a minute that they don't have to scam an actual confused elderly person," Mango added. "I run Lenny because I hope that the volunteers who forward their scam calls and I have, in some small way, saved a few people here and there from becoming a victim."
Check out a video of Lenny messing with a scammer here.
"Every minute that Lenny is on the phone with a scammer is a minute that they don't have to scam an actual confused elderly person," Mango added. "I run Lenny because I hope that the volunteers who forward their scam calls and I have, in some small way, saved a few people here and there from becoming a victim."