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| UPDATED: Well... looks like I've l̶o̶s̶t̶ won the battle against scam callers |
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| TimFox:
Some of my useless phone calls are from humans, but rarely from the area code that appears on CallerID. |
| gnuarm:
--- Quote from: Kjelt on June 17, 2023, 08:51:44 pm ---Oh yes only humans, who do you get then, chatgtp ? --- End quote --- I've already described the voice recognition bots I typically get. But here it is again. The bot greets me politely and asks how I am. If I say "hello" again, they typically ask if I can hear them. Anything else and the bot moves on to the self-introduction and purpose. It verifies my age usually (lots of calls are medical or insurance related), name and city, state. Then it asks me to stand by while it transfers me to an agent who will verify my information. That is now a person, in a boiler room, with lots of other voices in the background. They ask the same questions. When they are ready to transfer me, they ask me to listed to a reading of an agreement that gives them permission to call me in the future regardless of being on a do-not-call list. I explain I am on a do-not-call list. That's when they hang up. |
| gnuarm:
--- Quote from: TimFox on June 17, 2023, 08:59:57 pm ---Some of my useless phone calls are from humans, but rarely from the area code that appears on CallerID. --- End quote --- The caller id phone numbers are typically spoofed. They are calling from Indian boiler rooms and can make any number appear that they wish. I have found they try to look like a local call, with the same area code and often the same or other local exchange. This is why blocking phone numbers is pointless. |
| NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: TimFox on June 17, 2023, 08:59:57 pm ---Some of my useless phone calls are from humans... --- End quote --- Then you can use the trick of blasting unpleasant noises at them. The smoke alarm idea I mentioned earlier is an easy way. Probably the best, if you have a rooted phone, is to send a bit sequence that decodes into the loudest noise possible. |
| Halcyon:
Well I've trialed it for the past week or so. All calls go straight to voicemail. No notifications (unless they actually leave a message). It's been such a peaceful week. My announcement is along the lines of "All calls to this number are screened for privacy. Please leave a message with a return phone number, or use an alternate contact method." Scammers/bots just hang up at that point. Never have I had a scammer leave me a voice message (mainly because they don't have a direct in-dial number to call them back on). The carriers here (particularly Telstra) are pretty good at filtering spam SMS, I can't remember the last time I received one of those. My friends and family just call me via Signal so I still get all the truly important calls. Government agencies and other services (gas, electricity, phone etc...) just email me anyway, so I'm not missing out there. So far, it's a winner. My ideal option would be to simply divert all numbers other than the ones in my contacts list to voicemail, but the built-in Android phone application is yet to include that function. I think I might keep it this way for the next month or so and re-evaluate then. So far, so good. |
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