I use the same Google screening service on my Pixel phone. On our landline, I recorded a similar screening message using our voice-mail system. It will also record the caller's message.
-- Russ Abbott Professor Emeritus, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 2:18 PM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >> > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > 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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