Changes when using Nomorobo?

[Taoman]

Has anyone who uses Nomorobo noticed any changes in its behavior recently? I have.

1>When forking inbound calls to Nomorobo via the X_InboundCallRoute field, I now notice a significant delay after picking up an inbound call before I can hear the calling party speak. Likewise, the calling party continues to hear ringback tone well after I have already picked up the phone. The phone rings immediately as always, it is just that I can't hear the calling party for about 8 to 10 seconds. In looking at the OBi call logs, this ~8 to 10 second delay seems to correspond exactly with how long the connection to Nomorobo lasts. Once the initial delay is over the conversation continues normally. I have never had this issue before. (Note: it makes no difference which tollfree service I use and if I remove the fork to Nomorobo I no longer experience the initial delay)

2>I had set up Nomorobo for my elderly father who uses Vonage a couple years ago. Today, for the first time, when I called him I heard a message stating "This number is protected by Nomorobo....blah, blah. But it forced me to enter 2 digits "to stop telemarketers" before the call would complete. I then called him a couple times after that and I got right through without entering any digits. So I assume Nomorobo recorded and whitelisted my number.

I have never experienced this kind of behavior from Nomorobo before. I have googled this and searched the Nomorobo website for info but found nothing.

Has anyone else experienced this or heard of any changes with Nomorobo?

[SteveInWA]

The annoying thing about using the forked call method, is that I don't know when it stops working, until someone brings it up on the forum, or I start getting a bunch of spam calls.

I just tested my two CC DIDs on the nomorobo website, and now it doesn't work at all.  I was using Alcazar, which failed today, and then I switched to Arctele, which doesn't work either.  So, I have no idea what is going on.  If I had another call treatment destination, I'd just do it there, but I don't.

[Taoman]

If I had another call treatment destination, I'd just do it there, but I don't.

Curious what you mean by that statement. Callcentric is where I now use a hunt group to call Nomorobo.

I forward from GV to Callcentric. But because GV ignores early media half of Callcentric's call treatments were useless to me since they used early media including the Telemarketer Block. Well I finally started playing around with CC's IVR. Can't believe it took me so long. It is powerful and best of all......it doesn't use early media. So I have now switched all of my call treatments to using an IVR. Works amazingly well.

For instance, I made my own telemarketer block. It is my last call treatment. If a caller gets that far they are most likely a telemarketer. I give the caller 2 choices:
Press 1 to leave a (Callcentric) voicemail
Press 0 to connect
Pressing 0 goes to an IVR hunt group. First destination is Nomorobo via SIP BROKER and second destination is my extension.
This has completely eliminated all telemarketer/robodialer calls.

For my other call treatments where I want to send the callers to oblivion (like anyone from 845 area code) I send them to a different IVR. That IVR does only one thing and has a single entry under Last Route: Busy tone/Line disconnect. So they hear 3 or 4 busy tones and the line disconnects.

[GPz1100]

Taoman, what service is sip broker placing the forwarded call through?  Is there a charge?

[Taoman]

Taoman, what service is sip broker placing the forwarded call through?  Is there a charge?

Not sure which service SIP Broker uses but it's fast and reliable. I only give the call to Nomorobo a 5-second ring time but it works every time. If Nomorobo gets a hit it blocks the call. Since I'm using a hunt group I never get that annoying first ring.
Callcentric peers with SIP Broker so tollfree calls are free using access code of **275*.

[SteveInWA]

If I had another call treatment destination, I'd just do it there, but I don't.

Curious what you mean by that statement. Callcentric is where I now use a hunt group to call Nomorobo.

I forward from GV to Callcentric. But because GV ignores early media half of Callcentric's call treatments were useless to me since they used early media including the Telemarketer Block. Well I finally started playing around with CC's IVR. Can't believe it took me so long. It is powerful and best of all......it doesn't use early media. So I have now switched all of my call treatments to using an IVR. Works amazingly well.

For instance, I made my own telemarketer block. It is my last call treatment. If a caller gets that far they are most likely a telemarketer. I give the caller 2 choices:
Press 1 to leave a (Callcentric) voicemail
Press 0 to connect
Pressing 0 goes to an IVR hunt group. First destination is Nomorobo via SIP BROKER and second destination is my extension.
This has completely eliminated all telemarketer/robodialer calls.

For my other call treatments where I want to send the callers to oblivion (like anyone from 845 area code) I send them to a different IVR. That IVR does only one thing and has a single entry under Last Route: Busy tone/Line disconnect. So they hear 3 or 4 busy tones and the line disconnects.

I tried to reply to your post yesterday, but the forum kept hanging, and my reply went into the ozone.

I meant: 

I have been using a Callcentric call treatment with simultaneous ring.  That call treatment allows a maximum of five destinations + voicemail.  Given all the OBi equipment I have, I've maxed out at 2 OBi ATAs, 2 OBi IP phones, and one non-OBi IP phone.  So, I have to use the call forking method.

I discovered that Nomorobo test calls were failing because I had TrueCNAM blocking enabled, and TrueCNAM now treats the Nomorobo test calls as "High" probability Spam, because NMR is sending fake caller IDs (1-631-555-xxxx, where xxxx = the number you are enrolling).

Once I fixed that problem, it's now working fine with Alcazar, and no, I don't have the delay you described.