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I 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 wer
by hot_gril 3y ago
I 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.