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

[Shel Horowitz]

Unfortunately, those of us who rely on new business sometimes coming over
the phone don't have that option. While 90% of those types of calls are
junk, the other 10% are legit. I have found that if there are a lot of
random numbers on the screen, it's usually junk. Also, I don't think I've
ever gotten a call from 339 area code that was legit. But just today, I was
phone-banking North Carolina for the democrats and one of the numbers I was
given was a 339. Also many of the junk calls have names attached and look
legit. I have actually experienced multiple occurrences of not only someone
I knew in the next town and MY OWN NAME AND NUMBER showing on the ID of
spam calls. Obviously, if someone is pretending to be me, I don't answer.
And some numbers become familiar and I know I can ignore those.

Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:52 PM ed--- via Hidden-discuss <
hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure how "creative" this is, but assuming you have caller-ID on
> your
> landline, you'll note that most robocalls have a phony phone number; it's
> generally a city or town, and the return phone number appears to be valid
> (i.e., the correct area code and telephone exchange). The giveaway is that
> the caller is identified as a city or town. Don't pick up your phone for
> these calls. The robodialer recognizes when it's reached a phone answering
> system, and doesn't leave a message. You'll still get the rings, but not
> the
> annoyance or distraction of actually interacting with an automaton or human
> who has been connected by same.
>
> The VOIP suggestion below might work well, too, assuming you have really
> good Internet service (bandwidth).
>
>
> Ed Bride
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net> On
> Behalf Of James Triplett via Hidden-discuss
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:15 PM
> To: Val Nelson <val at valnelson.com>
> Cc: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Ways to reduce junk phone calls?
>
> 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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