Check out nomorobo.com. It’s free on landlines if the carrier supports it. Small monthly charge for cell phones. We have it since we have a comcast digital phone at home. It captures almost 100% of the robo calls. If one gets through, we can add the number to their data base. Only one every couple of weeks gets through. The way it works is that the phone rings both at home and on their computer (big potential security issue). Between the first and second rings, they look up the number in their data base and if it’s in there, they answer and we never get a second ring.
Ed _______________________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > On Dec 13, 2016, at 7:42 PM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Having about enough of Borg Callers (Robo dialers or equivilant) googled to > see what the heck can be done? > This cam about when I found my voice mail (landline) could in about 4-5 days > fill up from assorted 800 numbers calling and hanging up. > Wanting to do somthing about that I googled and came across several amusing > and frighting facts. Such as of the 60-65 unique area codes in america about > 10-15 have an enormous number of there phone numbers used up by essently > fake companies to spam people. > Then > I came across articles like this: > > http://www.cbsnews.com/news/8-tips-to-stop-annoying-robocalls/ > <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/8-tips-to-stop-annoying-robocalls/> > > A few other simillar articles say basically: Make sure your on the do not > call list, don't bother answering, if your phone supports it block it etc. > > > The cool (and oddly disturbing part) > Almost all the comments say: > -Try Google voice as your main number Google has a low tollerance for aholery > -Report any spam to google as spam who (supposedly) eventually just blocks > numbers automatically. > -LOUD Music or Noises close to the phone somehow breaks the robodialers so > they just wont call. > > > For What it's Worth my experience has been Google Voice seems average for > automagic 800 screening. They howevr realy kick butt when you report numbers > as spam. > > I'm also amused coments sugesting loud drumming music (like scotland the > brave, the 1812 overature, or Taiko drumming) to stop robo callers on your > land line. > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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