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Years ago, I switched my home "land line" to a VOIP service provider. This provider allows you to build a simple set of actions which will occur when a call com
by chriscjcj 3y ago
Years ago, I switched my home "land line" to a VOIP service provider. This provider allows you to build a simple set of actions which will occur when a call comes in.
Mine works like this:
Is the call from a fax machine?
If yes, take the fax and send the fax to my e-mail.
If no, move to the next step.
Is the call from a number that's on my whitelist?
If yes, ring my phone.
If no, move to the next step.
Play a recording of my voice saying, "Please press 5 to be connected."
Keep repeating this recording for 30 seconds.
If the caller presses 5, ring my phone.
If 30 seconds elapse and 5 is not pressed, hang up.
No more robo-calls for me. Zero. Gone. I check the logs and I'm still receiving many calls a day from random numbers, but none makes it through the test.
I know that if everyone did this, scammers would figure out a way around it, but for the last 7 years, it's completely solved my problem.
- nolongerthere 3y agoI'm very curious to know what service this is and how much it costs? I would love, LOVE to implement something like this for myself.
- imiric 3y agoThat's a simple phone CAPTCHA that can stop robocalls, but human spammers can easily bypass it, so you likely don't get such calls. I think just sending all calls to voicemail and urging callers to leave a message if it's important should stop all spam. No human spammer will want you to call them back, and most of their numbers are spoofed, so you couldn't anyway.