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How did you set this all up? It’s really interesting to me. Is there an article somewhere?
I'm not aware of any documentation that's all in one place. It all uses basic Asterisk functionality with FAGI scripts to do anything with advanced logic.
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I am in the same situation yet I know people who are plagued by such calls. There must be something that triggers this off? Having said that, these people will also give their phone number and email address to anyone who asks whereas I do not. If I have to enter a phone number on a form and it's isn't immediately obvious why I should do that then I'll make-up a number.
If you're not doing so already, please pick numbers that will never end up in use by someone else. E.g. for UK: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/inform... (expand the Notes section)
I 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…
Wow. I've been praying for a Google Voice replacement for around a decade now, I guess this it it!
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In Denmark, phone sales to consumers are generally illegal though strangely insurance and newspapers are excluded. There's a national "do not call" list you can sign up to as well. This is amusing called the "Robinson List", presumably after Robinson Crusoe. The same concept is used in a dozen other countries. I guess the penalties are severe enough that it generally only very shady people call, such as those pretend…
Rather off-topic, I was surprised by how readable this was to someone who doesn't speak a lick of Danish (me): > Robinsonlisten er opkaldt efter Robinson Crusoe, som er en fiktiv person, der optræder i romanen Robinson Crusoe af Daniel Defoe. Han strander på en øde ø og lever isoleret.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk
EDIT: Just FYI this is a clip from a Norwegian comedy program. Danish and Norwegian have very similar written languages but sound very different when spoken. In reality with some practice Danes, Swedes and Norwegians can speak together and understand one another.
I'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.
Android already does this, somewhat. Whenever you receive a call you know beforehand if it's spam or not. Maybe a handful of times in the last year I've received a spam call that wasn't marked as spam. You can block callers and report as spam much like in Gmail. When the call is not spam Android looks up on Google where the number is from and it shows the name of the business in the call screen. This is working great…
Edit: My phone is from Samsung (who like to add a bunch of their own software to base Android) and my carrier is AT&T.
I'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…
Just what we need, another startup injecting themselves into our lives. And then for the right price, "acceptable robocalls" can be Verified by Twilio™! SHAKEN/STIR[1] is a much more network-agnostic solution to the same problem, using essentially the same, well-established technology used by internet certificate authorities. As such, it has all the same basic problems that CAs do, but it's a hell of a lot better tha…
Looks cool but wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just outlaw robocalling like the rest of the world has?
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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 i…
In some countries it's illegal for companies to call random people, they need to gather opt-ins from all people they wanna call.
Android already does this, somewhat. Whenever you receive a call you know beforehand if it's spam or not. Maybe a handful of times in the last year I've received a spam call that wasn't marked as spam. You can block callers and report as spam much like in Gmail. When the call is not spam Android looks up on Google where the number is from and it shows the name of the business in the call screen. This is working great…
I've never seen a call marked as "spam" on Android. What kind of phone do you have, and which carrier? Edit: My phone is from Samsung (who like to add a bunch of their own software to base Android) and my carrier is AT&T.