Looking for a way to find out of service numbers

[Uncle Bob]

At my job my boss is having me dial numbers that show up top in google local listing numbers to see if they are out of service. If they are we contact some people at phone companies and buy them.

At the moment I'm having to manually call the numbers, if someone picks up I say sorry wrong number and go on to the next one.

Is there any way this can be automated?

[Nod]

Yes.

[Zazen]

What does he do with those numbers once he buys them?

[Magus]

What does he do with those numbers once he buys them?

I think it's kinda like a "retarded cyber-squat" where he buys the number then trys to sell it for way more than it's worth. Either that or he re-directs the numbers to his business. Stupid bastard.

[Zazen]

If he's redirecting the numbers to his business then it wouldn't be a job big enough for automation because the only important numbers to check are the same type of business right in the local area. If he's reselling them then I'm curious about how he gets in touch with willing buyers and matches the abandoned numbers to their needs.

[Uncle Bob]

Well we do all sorts of shit, look at optimumhealthcare.org and texasworkershealth.org to see. He redirects them to his business, and if he needs a number in a new area rather than buying one from the phone company outright he'll buy an out of service one in hopes that it'll have traffic to it anyway. I don't approve of any of this shit, I just do it for a paycheck.

And  yeah, I can easily get a list of 100-200 numbers to dial, so its semi big i suppose.

So how would I automate this?

[Zazen]

http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-scan/

If it's only 100-200 numbers then that's probably not worth the time it would take to automate, though. If you had to troubleshoot a modem for two hours you could have just been finished instead by dialing manually.

[Jo Nathen]

http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-scan/

If it's only 100-200 numbers then that's probably not worth the time it would take to automate, though. If you had to troubleshoot a modem for two hours you could have just been finished instead by dialing manually.

This being DOS, would it work with windows vista? haha.