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> Please - teach your parents to just hang up on these clowns. That was the other thing. It was impossible to get my grandparents to do this. I think I eventua
by klenwell 7y ago
> Please - teach your parents to just hang up on these clowns.
That was the other thing. It was impossible to get my grandparents to do this. I think I eventually got them to let the answering machine answer and not return calls for messages from anyone they didn't recognize.
- Gibbon1 7y agoWhat would be nice is a service that just forwards unknown calls to someone competent.
- OJFord 7y agoOr just blocks them? Because I'd like to think I'm 'someone competent', and on my own phone I only accept (non-personal) calls that I'm expecting, or can see a reason for.
- redler 7y agoMaybe this is a new angle for Google Voice or similar services. Protect vulnerable members of your family with a fail-safe auto-attendant system with approval rules.
- dwd 7y agoIt's not fully automatic and I'm sure scammers will come up with new scripts to still trick people into answering. Over time it should allow Google to flag numbers as potentially being a scam, marketing, etc based on other users flagging a caller. Saves Googling for that information which is what I currently do with an unknown number. The only risk is spoofing/false positives putting your number on some blacklist. https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/9118387?hl=en https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/9118387?hl=en
- irq-1 7y agoOr live monitoring -- mention money or bank accounts and Google Voice contacts a family member, or cuts off the call, or ..?