Block calls with a twist...
N7AS:
I think I'l try some of these...
I may just forward them to 800-356-9919. That may keep them busy.
I remember back in 1985 or so when I lived on Cape Cod, we just got touchtome service (Boston had it years before). We were getting prank calls, so I was tired of answering them. I forwarded all calls to the local PD. A few days passed and a relative dropped by and said that they were trying to reach us and our phone was answered by the PD. I guess I must have forgotten to discontinue the forward. It's a good thing that CallerID wasn't available at that time.
giqcass:
Quote from: azrobert on March 08, 2014, 09:37:19 am
Quote from: giqcass on March 08, 2014, 09:03:49 am
I can verify many autodialers have fax detection. I can't verify they remove the number.
Why would they have fax detection if they didn't do anything with it?
If they were smart enough they could start sending ads to you via fax, but I've been doing this for years and it hasn't happened to me.
Edit:
I'll answer my own question.
They wouldn't transfer the call to a rep if they detect a fax.
I investigated a few robocalls services / programs because what you said made sense and I wanted to see if fax detection was a common feature. Turns out it is. Many just flag the numbers as fax, busy, disconnected, answering machine, or connected. Apparently fax detection isn't reliable so they then give the client a list of those numbers and leave it up to the client as to what they want to do with the list. Some let the client listen in to manually verify the status of the number. It of course would make sense to remove a fax number from the list as long as you were sure it was a fax. I did not do an extensive investigation into them all. I just sampled a few.
I have never received a Robo fax but that was a problem when fax machines were more common. I haven't heard of anyone complain about one in years. I have however got a lot of fax machine calls to one of my cellphones but there is no way to know if it's spam or an accident because I couldn't see the faxes on a cell phone.
On a side note the FCC says you shouldn't talk to someone that robo calls you. Which is obvious but they also say don't unsubscribe either. They say when you unsubscribe the company that robocalled you knows it's a live number with a real person answering. Then they resell your number to other robocallers.
Ostracus:
Quote from: N7AS on March 08, 2014, 06:52:55 pm
I think I'l try some of these...
I may just forward them to 800-356-9919. That may keep them busy.
I remember back in 1985 or so when I lived on Cape Cod, we just got touchtome service (Boston had it years before).
Wow! That is old school. ;D
Robert.Thompson:
http://www.jeffdoubleyou.com/bin/view/VoIP/TestPhoneNumbers
gderf:
Forward them to Lenny.
sip:lenny@sip.itslenny.com:5060
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