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How do these system avoid robocalls and the like?
by aylons 9y ago
How do these system avoid robocalls and the like?
- chris72205 9y agoI'm curious about this as well. Though at a previous job, I got on the elevator one day to hear a telemarketer's voice coming from the emergency speaker. I'm guessing it happens, but just very rarely?
- SlowBro 9y agoIn the case of the Target breech one had to be transferred to the unlisted extension first. So it's not as though it's a phone number exposed to the outside world.
- tzs 9y agoI had something similar, twice. Once I was in the elevator when the emergency phone started ringing. I picked up, and it was the Seattle Times trying to sell subscriptions. The other time, same elevator, it was someone asking for a specific person that I had never heard of.
- Rjevski 9y agoMaybe you have to press a DTMF digit first, something the robocalls wouldn't know how to do? (and have no incentive doing, as so far nobody is using this to block robocalls; I'd expect them to catch on if this kind of "firewall" starts being in widespread use)
- mulmen 9y agoDuring the last presidential election I received a robocall in an elevator of then-candidate Trump screaming about immigrants. I heard a ring tone and then the elevator picked up automatically. Our emergency phones ring regularly. I have answered them several times and it always sounds like a scammer on the other end. I think the answer to your question is "they don't".