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On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Martijn Grooten wrote: > If you do get a cold caller - for whatever reason, not just scams... See if > you can keep them going for over 90 seconds. If they're in a call centre, > and using BT (although you'll never know), then BT have a call centre rate > that gives them the first 90 sconds of a call free[1], but after 90 seconds > it's the full call rates. So it would soon become not profitable for them... It was an international number, but I kept him on the phone for some time, definitely more than 90 seconds. I had already been thinking about what would have been the best way to do from both a hurt-the-scammers and a security research perspective. And wish I'd had a Windows VM ready indeed. Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq