‌ News from the Ship

Happy New Year! Happy New Year from the Jolly Roger Telephone Company! We hope you all had a great 2017 and we look forward to serving you in 2018! As always, welcome to our new subscribers! Thank you so much for joining the Jolly Roger Crew.  Jolly Roger Telephone Featured in The Weekly Standard ! I have the honor of being featured in the cover story of The Weekly Standard ! Although it is a political magazine, The Jolly Roger Telephone service is non-partisan and I'm thrilled to be included! It was a thoroughly researched article and the writer, Tony Mecia, even interviewed several Jolly Roger customers. This Foe is Beyond Any One of Us Since you're reading this, I think we are all united in the fight against unsolicited telemarketing. This is a HUGE battle, and neither "the industry" nor "the government" can ultimately defeat them. We need to do our part. At Jolly Roger Telephone, we have created a growing army of bots. These bots can fool the telemarketers and break their business model. For this to work, we need as many people as possible to subscribe to the Jolly Roger service so the telemarketers never know when they're going to get one. Remember - when you use a Jolly Roger bot, you're also helping all the people downstream that would be the next target of telemarketers. We're all pirates on this voyage together. Thank you for all your recommendations and help to spread the news! We rely on you for 100% of our marketing. Roger's Podcast You can click here to listen to my podcast .  JRT Podcast Or just search your podcast app for "Jolly Roger Telephone."

Jolly Roger Bots Will Now Automatically Intercept Invalid Caller-IDs Have you gotten a call from "000-000-0000"? Obviously, that's an invalid number. If you are using one of the many Jolly Roger services that automatically intercepts your telemarketers, you'll find that we're answering these calls. But you may not realize that we're answering a multitude of invalid numbers. I don't want to give too much away, but this is one more example of us escalating this arms race with the telemarketers. Neighbor Spoofing aka Family Reflection Scam We get a lot of comments about telemarketers using your local area code and prefix when calling you. This is a huge problem and was even mentioned by the Chairman of the FCC in the recent article in The Weekly Standard as a growing problem. It's very difficult to address, but we're working on something that should help all of you. Like many of our upcoming offerings, we need to launch our new web site before we can fully implement it. Please stick with us and keep using the service. We'll stay ahead of these scammers! Fun Statistics from 2017 I want to remind you all that I'm just a quiet telephone programmer in Los Angeles. I am doing this because I love telecommunications and hate telemarketing. I never expected this opportunity to protect your telephones from this predatory industry. I am typically a private person who keeps to myself, but I'm proud of these statistics so I wanted to share them with you. In 2017, we processed 492,285 telephone calls and our bots were engaged for 374,791 minutes. That's about 6246 man-hours or 780 "eight hour shifts" for a telemarketer. That's not bad for a hobbyist-turned-pirate telephone programmer and I owe all of this to you. I am honored that you trust me with your telephone service. I want you to love your telephone as much as I do! Let's all work together to make 2018 an expensive year for the telemarketing industry!

The Jolly Roger Crew

There is more to Jolly Roger Telephone than just me! I am the primary programmer for the bots and I've been doing the interviews and speeches, but this is getting to be a crazy amount of work and you will start to hear from some other people if you contact us via email, Facebook, YouTube, the WordPress Blog, or Twitter. Besides me, you might see the names Jennifer and Phil when you contact us. We are a small and friendly team dedicated to fighting your telemarketers. Please say hello if you chat with someone new! Thanks again, Roger & the Pirate Crew

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