[asterisk-users] Telemarketer Torture....

[John covici]

I have simply gotten rid of most of the telemarketer calls by simply
making them press 1 or wait to talk to me and they give up almost
always.

on Sunday 03/16/2008 Horwich IT Services (Godwin Stewart)(g.stewart at horwits.co.uk) wrote
 > On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:50:50 -0500, Lyle Giese <lyle at lcrcomputer.net> wrote:
 > 
 > > I just forward them to one of those two extensions. If callerid worked
 > > more reliably I would automate it. But I get a lot of caller id failures
 > > on my incoming POTS lines, esp when calling in from my cell phone.
 > 
 > The way I worked around this problem was to give a passcode to people I want
 > to hear from even if they conceal CLI.
 > 
 > If an inbound call comes in without CLI (or with CLI but the number is in
 > my blocklist for that matter), I forward it to a recorded message saying
 > "Caller ID screening is in operation. Please press 1 if you are an
 > authorized caller". When the user complies, they're prompted for the
 > passcode. If it's correct, then the call is forwarded to my extension.
 > 
 > Those I do want to hear from are not just blown off, they have a chance to
 > get through to me regardless of the screening. Teleslime doesn't, and
 > they've paid for the call anyway.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Godwin Stewart - Horwich IT services
 > 
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         John Covici
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