Blocking Robo Calls
Shale:
Quote from: lhm. on October 17, 2014, 09:53:00 am
How could that be accomplished on a Obi100?
Based on this thread, I am not optimistic that it can be done. http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=8494.msg55797#msg55797
http://www.obitalk.com/forum/index.php?topic=4838.0 reply #7 looks promising.
azrobert:
It bothered me that I had to let Anonymous calls thru.
I solved the problem by sending Anonymous to the Auto Attendant like this:
{(?|4808370000):aa},{ph,sp2(18661234567@tf.callwithus.com;ui=$1)}
"4808370000" is for testing.
I changed the AA Menu prompt to "Press one to connect".
I deleted all other AA prompts.
I enabled an AA PIN and changed the outbound route to prevent unauthorized outbound calls.
Now a real person must hear the prompt and press "1" to get thru.
When I created the custom prompt I included about 45 seconds of silence at the end of the message. I did this because the prompt is repeated if the caller doesn't respond for approximately 5 seconds. Now it takes about 45 seconds before the prompt is repeated.
giqcass:
Quote from: Shale on October 17, 2014, 09:10:17 am
I expect there would be a variation where the first ring, that normally rings the phone even on a robocall, gets suppressed. This might involve forking the call to the local phone (ph) only after a 4?-second delay.
I think a 2 second delay might be enough. It can probably be rerouted like this to create a delay. d=2
sp2(18661234567@tf.callwithus.com;ui=$1),sp2(reroutedcall@obilocalip:port;d=2,ui=$1)
The call would be sent to ph by another sp.
unmesh:
I'm going to try posting on this old thread to see if anyone replies before opening a new one because of all the useful information here.
We use GV on an Obi110 and have had a sudden surge in robocalls in recent weeks. GV is provisioned as SP1.
Will this technique work for our setup? Do I have to provision SP2 since the settings mention it?
I am willing to switch to a Obi200 if that is necessary?
Thanks.
SteveInWA:
Quote from: unmesh on July 18, 2016, 10:51:29 pm
I'm going to try posting on this old thread to see if anyone replies before opening a new one because of all the useful information here.
We use GV on an Obi110 and have had a sudden surge in robocalls in recent weeks. GV is provisioned as SP1.
Will this technique work for our setup? Do I have to provision SP2 since the settings mention it?
I am willing to switch to a Obi200 if that is necessary?
Thanks.
First, log onto your Google Voice account from a laptop or desktop computer's web browser, go here:
https://www.google.com/voice#callsettings
...and enable (check-mark) the Global Spam Filtering option. It's highly effective; I rarely get robocalls on my GV number.
If that doesn't solve your issue, then yes, you'd need to do some expert configuration tweaking to "fork" the calls to nomorobo, per Robert's earlier posts here.
I should mention that this is an old thread, and since it started, "callwithus.com" no longer accepts inbound calls from unregistered users. There are some other providers, though.
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