Allow only calls to Google Voice to be accepted at CallCentric?
Ember1205:
I have everything configured and running with my old home number being ported in to Google Voice and I am using CallCentric as a forwarding phone so that I can use the anti-SPAM controls and Call Screening of Google Voice.
Once thing that I want to be able to do is to allow my CC number to ONLY accept calls that are forwarded from GV. Is this sort of thing possible?
Basically, NO ONE should have or be using my CC number. Period.
drgeoff:
I think the only way to do that will result in you not receiving the original caller's CID. All calls will show as from your GV number.
1. At google.com/voice go to Settings, then the 'Calls' tab and under 'Caller ID (Incoming)' select the 'Display my Google Voice number'
2. At the Callcentric Dashboard, set up two Call Treatments. Make the first act on calls with CID matching your GV number to send them to your OBi. Make the second to send all calls to 'Error message: number disconnected'. Ensure the first one is listed above the second.
Ember1205:
Thanks... I know that I could change as you've described but specifically do NOT want that.
I've been doing some additional reading here, and I see that the Telemarketer Block on CC uses Early Media (like GV does with the Call Screening). Since GV will ignore Early Media use from any forwarded-to number (like CC), the Telemarketer Block is essentially useless for calls forwarded from GV. However, it would still work with calls direct to the CC DID.
Assuming that is true, I wonder if I could create a Call Treatment that would work just like the Telemarketer Block and forward to a non-ringing extension or similar.
SteveInWA:
I have been using Callcentric with Google Voice for years. In all that time, I have received less than 10 calls that someone either mistakenly or intentionally placed directly to the CC number.
It really isn't worth worrying about. If you see an inbound caller ID that you don't recognize or that looks flaky, then just don't answer it.
Ember1205:
Quote from: SteveInWA on May 29, 2016, 04:54:41 pm
I have been using Callcentric with Google Voice for years. In all that time, I have received less than 10 calls that someone either mistakenly or intentionally placed directly to the CC number.
It really isn't worth worrying about. If you see an inbound caller ID that you don't recognize or that looks flaky, then just don't answer it.
Sometimes, you get a phone number that's recycled from someone that was on a lot of lists you don't want to be on. Just looking for options in case that turns out to be the case with this number.
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