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UPDATED: Well... looks like I've l̶o̶s̶t̶ won the battle against scam callers

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paul@yahrprobert.com:
My VOIP provider (Magicjack) has a call screening service that answers the phone and says "This call is being automatically screened. Please press 4 to connect" where the number is random.  It works great. I've gone from about 6 calls a day to zero.  The robots aren't smart enough and the foreign  agents must not connect quickly enough.
  I think you can buy a box for $20 which will do a similar thing.

gnuarm:

--- Quote from: paul@yahrprobert.com on June 17, 2023, 02:35:03 am ---My VOIP provider (Magicjack) has a call screening service that answers the phone and says "This call is being automatically screened. Please press 4 to connect" where the number is random.  It works great. I've gone from about 6 calls a day to zero.  The robots aren't smart enough and the foreign  agents must not connect quickly enough.
  I think you can buy a box for $20 which will do a similar thing.

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And install it where?  I haven't had a land line in 20 years.  I would love to have such a device.  But, if they become widespread, they would be easy for the scammers to get past.  They already use voice recognition. 

I sometimes answer the scammers calls to see how much of their time I can waste before they hang up on me.  I have to first answer questions a bot asks.  It verifies my age and other questions.  Then I am passed to a low cost human, the typical boiler room people with foreign accents.  They ask mostly the same questions.  I don't know exactly what they are looking for, but often, I get hung up on.  If I play the game well enough I am asked to give permission for a call back from a "licensed agent", "even if your number is on a do-not-call list...".  That, I am not going to do.  I'm sure it would put my number on a list that gets called even more frequently. 

The point is, they are smart enough to know what is working and what isn't.  They change, adapt and find better ways of getting what they want.  Your "box" solution only works, because not many people use it.  They could build this feature into cell phones, easily.  Once they do that, the scammers will use their bots to listen to what is being said so it can push the right button and the feature will no longer work. 

Kjelt:

--- Quote from: Halcyon on March 25, 2023, 04:55:19 am ---Keen to hear how others manage these nuisance callers.
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Got this from another guy, sounds a decent approach:

If I don't recognize the number I pick up with only "Hello?"
If it is a salesperson or anything I did not ask for, I say things like :
" You are calling a company business number, please hang up"

Sometimes just for fun
"You have called  the biological wildfire emergency number, you know it is a federal crime  to call this number without emergency? Please provide your name, jobfunction and company for my report"

Quickly ends this shit.

gnuarm:

--- Quote from: Kjelt on June 17, 2023, 10:11:31 am ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on March 25, 2023, 04:55:19 am ---Keen to hear how others manage these nuisance callers.
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Got this from another guy, sounds a decent approach:

If I don't recognize the number I pick up with only "Hello?"
If it is a salesperson or anything I did not ask for, I say things like :
" You are calling a company business number, please hang up"

Sometimes just for fun
"You have called  the biological wildfire emergency number, you know it is a federal crime  to call this number without emergency? Please provide your name, jobfunction and company for my report"

Quickly ends this shit.

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So you get calls from actual humans?  I wish I were so lucky.

Kjelt:
Oh yes only humans, who do you get then, chatgtp ?

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