OBi + GV: Neighbor Spoofing Robocall Blocking
kgjulie:
I do have it enabled, and periodically I go through my call log in GV and mark those calls as spam and block them. It's tedious.
Mike1111111:
At some point in the past year, the trick of sending spam callers to the 14025551212 directory assistance number stopped working. My main phone does still does not ring, but my cell phone, where my Google Voice calls are forwarded, continues to ring and if I don't answer the spam callers go to my Google Voice mail. Does anyone know what happened or what the fix is?
Maybe I need to direct the calls to Nomorobo instead of directory assistance?
Taoman:
Quote from: Mike1111111 on December 06, 2020, 05:40:22 pm
Maybe I need to direct the calls to Nomorobo instead of directory assistance?
You can always send them to Lenny. He'd love to chat with them.
347-514-7296
owatson:
Quote from: slow_quick on January 14, 2019, 10:07:48 pm
I found a way to block "Neighbor Spoofing Robocall" using OBi device + GV.
Hypothetically assuming:
1. my GV number is 402-346-1400 and this is my SP1;
2. I have 3 friends in the neigbor area, 402-346-1401, 402-346-1402 and 402-346-1403
I would like to block 402-346-xxxx except for 3 friends' numbers.
First I set up 2 user defined digitmaps:
wlist = ( (+1|1)? 402 346 (1401 | 1402 | 1403) )
blist = ( (+1|1)? 402 346 xxxx )
I then set up SP1's InboundCallRoute:
X_InboundCallRoute = {(Mwlist):ph},{(Mblist):sp1(14025551212; ui=$1)},{ph}
The first rule is white list, let friends phone to come to my phone. The second rule is black list, all other neighbor phone numbers are captured here, and forwarded to the directory assistant number 402-555-1212. Google Voice tells the caller "We can not complete your call. Please try again.", click, disconnected. If the incoming call does not match the first two rules, it passes to the last one, the phone.
My land-line phone (GV+OBi200) is so much quiter now.
This method is good if you've moved around and kept the old number so you have only a few old "neighbor" friends, making it easy to come up the white list.
Thanks for sharing this. I think I will try to set up this. Until now, I only ignore any calls if I'm not familiar with the numbers. Sometimes I will also Google them or check them up on complain boards like http://phonebook.ai to see if people have reported those numbers, so I can manually block them.
Malachi123:
Thank you for sharing this simple solution. I'm going to implement it as well.. and see if this helps against my "stalker" (calling every day!).
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