Been running iOS 13 with Silence all unknown calls..send them to voicemail option.
Spam calls are no longer a bother Nor are really seen and important messages from those not in my contacts leave voicemails.
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#22> Even more concern, 70% of consumers don’t answer a call if the caller’s number is anonymous.
The concerning part is 30% still answer the calls.
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#23I'm skeptical for the following reasons: 1. Companies like Twilio largely created the explosion in spam calls by providing extremely cheap, programmable calls, so I'm always a little skeptical when the company selling the poison is also selling the antidote. 2. I really don't like the idea of a single company being responsible for a global verification system for something like phone calls. How are decisions made ove…
It's been awhile but I believe it is much easier to use something like Asterisk and a sip provider to spoof calls then twillo.
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#24I was just reviewing my call detail records on my "home" number yesterday, and realizing that the vast majority are spam - we pretty much don't answer that phone. This got me thinking about alternatives to even ringing for any unrecognised numbers, such as an IVR menu that said something like "Hi, we're screening spam, press 4 2 if you're a real person". I'm not sure how that'd be accepted by, for example, the dentis…
>Has anyone set something like that up?
Yes! I did "Captcha for phone calls" for a school project earlier this year. It would play a quick message along the lines of "Hey, to ring my phone just enter these numbers: XYZ", and redirect the call to my phone if the captcha was correct.
The challenge was redirecting calls to the challenge even if they were originally directed to my phone number - the solution was to write a custom call handler (Android) that rejected calls if they weren't in my phone book, and then set up call-forwarding on rejected calls to go to a Twilio number with the challenge. There was a nice edge case where if I actually missed the call, it would just redirect you to the challenge again... but it was good enough for the class.
While testing, I accidentally actually got someone to use it! A guy repairing my watch called me, got directed to the challenge, and actually followed directions! Which was surprising to me. I also caught some obvious spam callers (same first 6 digits), and unsure if there were any other real people who did call and got confused or just hung up.
I've been meaning to clean up the code and publish it, but haven't gotten around to it - there's lots of hardcoded numbers in there.
(Disclosure: currently employed by Twilio)
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#25I know it's overkill, but this is my current setup for my phone numbers. I treat phone numbers the same way I do my email address: I use different numbers for different purposes. 1. I have a "clean" phone number I only share with friends/family. Certain prefixes and phone number actually receive next to zero spam calls. This number has received 2 calls in the years I've had it. 2. I have a phone number I share with c…
Very cool. How do you route your legacy number? Did you port it to Twilio?
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#26I know it's overkill, but this is my current setup for my phone numbers. I treat phone numbers the same way I do my email address: I use different numbers for different purposes. 1. I have a "clean" phone number I only share with friends/family. Certain prefixes and phone number actually receive next to zero spam calls. This number has received 2 calls in the years I've had it. 2. I have a phone number I share with c…
When I was younger I used to work for a market research company doing surveys over the phone.
The way their process worked was:
* Big company wanted a survey completed. * Big company would want it targeted to a specific state/regional area, so would provide a list of post/zip codes.
* Survey company would translate the list of codes into phone prefixes for each area.
* Computer would randomly generate phone numbers in the area - starting from xxxx 0000 through to xxxx 9999 for operators to call.
That meant you'd get disconnected numbers, businesses, private/silent numbers, faxes, modems, etc.
So having a "clean" number didn't protect you. While a few projects were targeted to specific people/numbers - most were just random.
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#27I know it's overkill, but this is my current setup for my phone numbers. I treat phone numbers the same way I do my email address: I use different numbers for different purposes. 1. I have a "clean" phone number I only share with friends/family. Certain prefixes and phone number actually receive next to zero spam calls. This number has received 2 calls in the years I've had it. 2. I have a phone number I share with c…
Very cool. How do you route your legacy number? Did you port it to Twilio?
I ported the legacy number to another SIP provider. Twilio is still cheap ($1 a month or so per DID, plus $0.004 per minute), but other providers are less than half that. For that price difference, I had no reason to choose another provider so I mostly did that for fun and experimentation.
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#28I know it's overkill, but this is my current setup for my phone numbers. I treat phone numbers the same way I do my email address: I use different numbers for different purposes. 1. I have a "clean" phone number I only share with friends/family. Certain prefixes and phone number actually receive next to zero spam calls. This number has received 2 calls in the years I've had it. 2. I have a phone number I share with c…
Impressive. But what's the need of number 4? Why not just give up that number?
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#29I know it's overkill, but this is my current setup for my phone numbers. I treat phone numbers the same way I do my email address: I use different numbers for different purposes. 1. I have a "clean" phone number I only share with friends/family. Certain prefixes and phone number actually receive next to zero spam calls. This number has received 2 calls in the years I've had it. 2. I have a phone number I share with c…
Impressive. But what's the need of number 4? Why not just give up that number?
I have a mobile phone, and don't want to use the carrier's voicemail. I use Asterisk instead, and also use Speech Recognition to get an email transcript of voicemails.
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#30I know it's overkill, but this is my current setup for my phone numbers. I treat phone numbers the same way I do my email address: I use different numbers for different purposes. 1. I have a "clean" phone number I only share with friends/family. Certain prefixes and phone number actually receive next to zero spam calls. This number has received 2 calls in the years I've had it. 2. I have a phone number I share with c…
Out of curiosity, how much does this setup cost you to run per month? My main aversion to Twilio is their awkward pricing scheme.