[Hidden-tech] Ways to reduce junk phone calls?

[Shel Horowitz]

This is very cool. If we already have VOIP through Charter/Spectrum, does
anyone know if they have an option like that?

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On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:14 PM James Triplett via Hidden-discuss <
hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:

> On (21/09/20 18:38), Val Nelson via Hidden-discuss wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:38:45 -0400
> > From: Val Nelson via Hidden-discuss <
> hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
> > To: Hidden-Tech Listserv <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
> > Subject: [Hidden-tech] Ways to reduce junk phone calls?
> > Reply-To: Val Nelson <val at valnelson.com>
> >
> > Hi HT community,
> > I'm increasingly bombarded with junk phone calls. Multiple a day.
> > Especially in the last month.
> >
> > Any creative ideas to reduce that? They are all mostly on the same topic
> of
> > selling business visibility online. Argh.
> >
>
> We've basically eliminated robocalls with the following:
>
> 1. Move (called porting) our "landline" number to a VOIP service, such as
> voip.ms .
> 2. The VOIP service has an automated attendant function, which answers the
> phone
>    and says, "Marketing calls not accepted.  If you're human, press 3"
> 3, If, and only if, the caller presses '3', the automated attendant "dials
> out"
>    to a second secret number, which then rings our phone.
>
> To my surprise it works perfectly, even human callers at call centers
> don't seem to
> be able to get past it.
>
> The VOIP service (which we got originally to save money) costs around $6
> per month per line.
>
> cheers,
> James
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