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fromHomebuilding
3 days ago

Free home survey offers? Why you should be cautious about renovation cold calls

Automated robo-calls using avatar software and overseas call centres are misleading homeowners into costly, sometimes false, home-improvement sales.
fromTheregister
1 week ago

Brits warned as illegal robo-callers fined 550,000

The ICO said the use of what it calls "robo call technology" - avatar software that allows callers to present themselves as people they are not - is making it more difficult to discern genuine calls from those made by predatory marketeers. It said the telltale signs of such calls include slight pauses before responses (indicating call handlers selecting recordings to play), limited flexibility to answer offbeat questions, identical voices and tones, and no background noise or natural breaks in speech.
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