(amused): Re: Spam solutions

[Gillian Densmore]

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/

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.

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[Edward Angel]

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)   [hidden email]

505-453-4944 (cell)  http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel

On Dec 13, 2016, at 7:42 PM, Gillian Densmore <[hidden email]> 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/

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.

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[Gillian Densmore]

Yeah. I think the blurbs I read talk sugested them. YAR!

Their was some other company I can't remember the name of sugested in my search. They're working with google somehow so as Google-Voice works with them somehow. One part of the issue is these guys (illegally) use fake names and numbers. 

The (potentially) kind of cool side effect of that is trying to get some sanity and 'just works' with phones and internet. Their's a bunch of ideas and (alpha) tools roaming around. One was inspired by star trek's 'hailing' frequency system. From what I gather seeing if ol'fationed landlines can somehow talk to the cloud. Admitedly I read that after having a little nyquil as I've got a low grade bug.  I might simply be wrong or misread the blurb on Tech Republic.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Edward Angel <[hidden email]> wrote:

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
<a href="tel:(505)%20984-0136" value="[phone]" target="_blank">505-984-0136 (home)   [hidden email]

<a href="tel:(505)%20453-4944" value="[phone]" target="_blank">505-453-4944 (cell)  http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel

On Dec 13, 2016, at 7:42 PM, Gillian Densmore <[hidden email]> 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/

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.

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