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

[Jack L.]

Make sure you're on the do not call list. The fines are rather serious for
any domestic commerical operation. Foreign spammers won't care but it's cut
my calls by 95-99%.

It doesn't take effect immediately so do it asap!

https://www.donotcall.gov/

Jack Laxson

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 20:12 Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss <
hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
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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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