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What I actually started doing is setting my voicemail greeting to a fax machine tone. In Google voice you can also put spammers into a penalty box, so only they
by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
What I actually started doing is setting my voicemail greeting to a fax machine tone. In Google voice you can also put spammers into a penalty box, so only they get the fax machine. This stopped a lot of my spam calls.
- hot_gril 3y agoI used to have my answering machine start with a "1" dial tone, which made all the bots connect real people to talk to my regular greeting, and real callers weren't too bothered by it. Nowadays it's harder to use something that doesn't also trick real callers.
- supertrope 3y agoThere is overlap between the smartest robocall software and dumbest humans. To be charitable people are not expecting an instruction of "We are screening incoming calls. To ring through press 1." and often react by hanging up thinking they dialed the wrong number. And calling again.
- hot_gril 3y agoYeah, even something that doesn't trick the real callers will at least be annoying. Some things just say "call again to be connected," but robo-callers seem to have caught on.