How to block a caller?

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Richards:
Quote from: Shale on October 18, 2013, 09:22:33 pm

Maybe you could look into having the OBi forwarding the call to somewhere instead of just ignoring the call.


Great idea.  How to forward it to another number, say their own number?   I tried your format to forward the unwanted caller to his own number 1222222222:    {(12222222222|13333333333):12222222222},{ph} 
But this doesn't work, is this right?

Richards:
Quote from: ianobi on October 19, 2013, 02:24:35 am

My suggestion above results in your OBi sending SIP message “486: Busy Here” back to your voip provider. FPL sees that message and diverts the call to your voicemail.


Thanks. Great idea too, though I have used up the sip 2 for Google Voice.  As I said above, I am trying to kick back the unwanted caller to his own number. I am looking for a formula. Thanks.

ianobi:
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I tried your format to forward the unwanted caller to his own number 1222222222:    {(12222222222|13333333333):12222222222},{ph} 
But this doesn't work, is this right?

You need to specify a trunk to send the call out on, so the correct format would be:

Voice Services > SP1 Service > X_InboundCallRoute:
{(12222222222|13333333333):sp2(12222222222)},{ph}

Now the call comes in on sp1 and is forwarded using sp2. However, I'm not sure that this would work to his own number. Maybe you could find an interesting free message number and forward him to that:

Voice Services > SP1 Service > X_InboundCallRoute:
{(12222222222|13333333333):sp2(18001234567)},{ph}

azrobert:
The better format when you're checking for multiple numbers would be:
{(12222222222|13333333333):sp2($1)},{ph}

$1 is a variable that contains the inbound CallerID.

I would think the caller would just get a busy signal with the above. Don't know what would happen if they had Call Waiting.

I send these calls to my Callcentric Fax to Email service like this:
{(12222222222|13333333333):sp2(17771234567@in.callcentric.com)},{ph}

17771234567 is my Callcentric account number.

Hopefully, when they hear the fax tone they will remove your number from their call list.

Callcentric with the Fax to Email service is free.

ianobi:
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The better format when you're checking for multiple numbers would be:
{(12222222222|13333333333):sp2($1)},{ph}

Much better! I must have been having a "senior moment" in Reply #12   :-[

Maybe I'll switch on the tv for a while so I can switch off my brain   :)

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