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<p><font face="Calibri">For me, most of our business is in Western
Mass or Southern Vermont, and any new customer that wants to
reach me will leave a message. I'm diligent about adding any
legit numbers into my phone so I'll get their calls in the
future, but all others go to voice mail. Most messages I get are
the tail end of a robo call, "...ant to be removed from our call
list, please press 9." I just hit delete.<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">Also, Verizon now has a thing where, if you
do accept calls from numbers not in your phone book, they will
set the caller ID to "POTENTIAL SCAM" above the actual number,
where the person's name would go, if that number appears to be a
scammer to them. Easy to ignore, although the phone still rings.</font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri">Mik</font><br>
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<div dir="ltr">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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0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I'm
not sure how "creative" this is, but assuming you have
caller-ID on your<br>
landline, you'll note that most robocalls have a phony phone
number; it's<br>
generally a city or town, and the return phone number appears
to be valid<br>
(i.e., the correct area code and telephone exchange). The
giveaway is that<br>
the caller is identified as a city or town. Don't pick up your
phone for<br>
these calls. The robodialer recognizes when it's reached a
phone answering<br>
system, and doesn't leave a message. You'll still get the
rings, but not the<br>
annoyance or distraction of actually interacting with an
automaton or human<br>
who has been connected by same.<br>
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The VOIP suggestion below might work well, too, assuming you
have really<br>
good Internet service (bandwidth).<br>
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Ed Bride<br>
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Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Ways to reduce junk phone calls?<br>
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On (21/09/20 18:38), Val Nelson via Hidden-discuss wrote:<br>
> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:38:45 -0400<br>
> From: Val Nelson via Hidden-discuss <br>
> <<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net"
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> Hi HT community,<br>
> I'm increasingly bombarded with junk phone calls.
Multiple a day.<br>
> Especially in the last month.<br>
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> Any creative ideas to reduce that? They are all mostly on
the same <br>
> topic of selling business visibility online. Argh.<br>
> <br>
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We've basically eliminated robocalls with the following:<br>
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1. Move (called porting) our "landline" number to a VOIP
service, such as<br>
<a href="http://voip.ms" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">voip.ms</a> .<br>
2. The VOIP service has an automated attendant function, which
answers the<br>
phone<br>
and says, "Marketing calls not accepted. If you're human,
press 3"<br>
3, If, and only if, the caller presses '3', the automated
attendant "dials<br>
out"<br>
to a second secret number, which then rings our phone.<br>
<br>
To my surprise it works perfectly, even human callers at call
centers don't<br>
seem to be able to get past it.<br>
<br>
The VOIP service (which we got originally to save money) costs
around $6 per<br>
month per line.<br>
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cheers,<br>
James<br>
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