Re: [asterisk-users] blocking spammer by callerID name

2013-06-14 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 18:29 -0600, Joseph wrote: When I play: exten = s,n,Background(welcome) and press extension 1 the system will not jump to this extension immediately, there is a few sec. pause. Mine looks like this: exten = s,1,Answer() exten = s,2,Set(TIMEOUT(digit)=1) exten =

[asterisk-users] blocking spammer by callerID name

2013-06-13 Thread Joseph
I have a subroutine to block spammer by CALLERID(number) exten = 4,1,GotoIf(${BLACKLIST()}?blacklisted,s,1) exten = 4,n,Set(goaway=${CALLERID(number):0:2}) exten = 4,n,GotoIf($[${goaway} = V4 ]?blacklisted,s,1) exten = 4,n,GotoIf($[${goaway} = V3 ]?blacklisted,s,1) but I just got another

Re: [asterisk-users] blocking spammer by callerID name

2013-06-13 Thread Chris Gentle
Google the number and you can probably find other complaints and possibly who it is. Not that it will matter, there's nothing you can do but block it. My approach to call filtering is: Deny All Allow Some I have a whitelist of callers I always want to accept that may include businesses outside

Re: [asterisk-users] blocking spammer by callerID name

2013-06-13 Thread Joseph
Thank you for input. Good idea, I like your approach with press number to leave a message, this will definitely cut the robo-calls voice-mail. Do you use database for white-list? Can you post a section of your dial plan that deals with blocking? This is a medical clinic so white-list,

Re: [asterisk-users] blocking spammer by callerID name

2013-06-13 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 13:55 -0600, Joseph wrote: Good idea, I like your approach with press number to leave a message, this will definitely cut the robo-calls voice-mail. I do this, but without any white or black lists, and it works great. The greeting says press one for my wife, or two for

Re: [asterisk-users] blocking spammer by callerID name

2013-06-13 Thread Eric Cooper
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 02:32:22PM -0600, Greg Woods wrote: I do this, but without any white or black lists, and it works great. The greeting says press one for my wife, or two for me. That alone is enough to knock out virtually all the spammers (99% of them are robo-calls these days). Once 1

Re: [asterisk-users] blocking spammer by callerID name

2013-06-13 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 18:14 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: Greg, would you mind posting your dialplan? It may be a day or two before I can do that, as of course I will need to sanitize it (remove passwords, commented lines, etc.) --Greg --

Re: [asterisk-users] blocking spammer by callerID name

2013-06-13 Thread Joseph
When I play: exten = s,n,Background(welcome) and press extension 1 the system will not jump to this extension immediately, there is a few sec. pause. I think because I have an extensions 1 and 11 in my system. Is there a way to tell Background to execute the first match? I see there are two

Re: [asterisk-users] blocking spammer by callerID name

2013-06-13 Thread Chris Gentle
Yeah, probably wouldn't work too well in a business environment where you actually NEED to answer calls. I go to a lot of trouble to make sure people can't get in touch with me. :) I keep my blacklist and whitelist in AstDB. However, I maintain it in a bash script so that I can update the