What is the "Please enter your security code" message?
revengineer:
It could also be the voicemail box provided by the VOIP provider.
drgeoff:
Quote from: revengineer on July 13, 2016, 12:57:39 pm
It could also be the voicemail box provided by the VOIP provider.
A voicemail system that asks callers to enter a security code sounds much less useful than the usual sort that invites them to leave a message.
Lavarock7:
Searching for 10 rings and please enter your security code came up with a Vtech cordless phone manual that states:
Even if the Answering System is set to OFF, it will still answer calls after 10
rings. An announcement, "Please enter your security code" is given, and you
can enter your security code to use remote operation. (See Remote Operation
of Answering System)
So as I said earlier, I think it is some type of override on the control of a device.
Cellphones and so on usually ask for a PASSWORD to listen to messages, but security code infers some type of equipment control (turning things on and off like remote control of an answering system).
BigJim_McD:
I remember this happening to me after switching incoming calls from Google Voice to a VoIP service provider on our:
Vtech DS6151 Dect 6.0 2-Line Expandable Cordless Phone with Digital Answering System and Caller ID.
I configured the VoIP service's Voice Mail to answer in less than 10 Rings to clear up the problem at the time.
Now, I use my Google Voice phone number to screen calls and Google Voice's Voice Mail answers after about 4-Rings.
TTCP:
I have to say this is one of the most useless annoying and definitely unwanted features from V-Tech telephones, like the much-hated Google Instant Search, or like that the Skype application deliberately refuses to close when I click the "close" menu item.
I mean it when I decide to turn off the built-in answering machine on my V-Tech phone. Why do those pointy-headed pink-hair hippie V-Tech engineers think that it is cool to secretly inject a useless sneaky and potentially insecure override mechnism, only serving to cause confusion and invite voice-mail hacking. Plus they deliberately decide that My V-Tech cordless phone answering machine security code must be only 2-digit, deliberately designed to be insecure. Do they derive perverse pleasure seeing my telephone built-in answering system get hacked, and my confidential voice mail got stolen/deleted by hackers?
I will vow that from now on, I will avoid V-Tech telephones like plague.
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