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trueCall seems to work well for me. I let all mobile calls straight through, and those from my local phone area and those where the people who ring me most live

by vmilner 12y ago

trueCall seems to work well for me. I let all mobile calls straight through, and those from my local phone area and those where the people who ring me most live. Everyone else gets asked to press '3' (say) to get through. I can imagine some issues - e.g. those automated calls that say your credit card's been used in Outer Mongolia, and I'm a bit concerned that the extra hurdle could be a problem in an emergency situation, but I haven't had a cold-call (on my landline) for 3 years.

Silhouette 12y ago
Thanks for sharing. I hadn't realised it could do things like permitting all callers from a certain area. For what it's worth, I've had the occasional issues with both business and personal cards being used abroad -- usually when someone forgot to tell the computer about the foreign travel they had been duly informed about weeks in advance -- but I have never had anything but a real person call and then, if I wasn't able to answer, leave a real message. I guess some places might use auto-diallers for this, but it doesn't seem to be the norm in the UK if my experience is representative. Actually, an absurd proportion of these people call, and then if I am there to answer, the caller starts by announcing that they're from my bank/card provider and then immediately dives into "Before I can talk to you about this, I just need to ask you some security questions to confirm your identity...", but that's another story. :-)