I use Google call screening which asks the caller to say their name and reason for calling. If they say anything I see a transcript and I can answer immediately. Most calls from numbers I don't recognize result in hangups.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Mon, Oct 4, 2021, 2:42 PM Barry MacKichan <[email protected]> wrote: > Our phone service here (in N. Carolina) includes caller id by voice — > which is generated by a text-to-voice program that hilariously garbles the > text. It seems like state of the art circa 1990. > > Back when there were humans on the line (usually trying to pump stocks), > I’d say hello and then carefully lay the handset on my desk. After about 40 > seconds I could faintly hear “Barry, … Barry? Barry? Click” I wasn’t > keeping track, but my sense is that the number of those calls went down. > > The only number I give out now is my cell phone, which is relatively > immune to these calls. For the moment, anyway. > > —Barry > > On 4 Oct 2021, at 12:24, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote: > > Who scams the scammers? Meet the scambaiters > > https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/03/who-scams-the-scammers-meet-the-amateur-scambaiters-taking-on-the-crooks > > Story: When Renee' and I first got the new phone number here in Oly, the > calls were non-stop, 10-20 per day on the landline. I just removed the > phone from my office and don't look at or check messages on the landline > anymore. But I finally bit the bullet and started answering every call. And > talking to whoever was there. If I had to push a button to get to a human, > I pushed the button. If I had to talk to a robot for awhile in order to get > to a human, I talked to the robot. After about a week of this, the calls > started to fade. After about a month, we were down to 1-3 calls per day. > Now we're down to maybe 2-3 per week. > > It works to simply waste their time. And it works whether their > "legitimate" life insurance salespeople or scammers. > > -- > "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie." > ☤>$ uǝlƃ > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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