Oh yeah, I've talked to them plenty. And if you've been on the list for any amount of time, you know I am not a man of few words.
But wasting their time with meandering and circuitous existential chats hasn't got them to stop calling. -- Alex > On Mar 18, 2026, at 12:34 PM, Shawn L via VoiceOps <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It's always fun when they call one of our unpublished test numbers and > one of the CO techs decides to stay on the line to talk to an agent > and have some fun* with them. > > * Legal, legitimate fun -- ie: informing them that the call is being > recorded for security and training purposes, quizzing them on how they > got the number, etc. > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 12:28 PM Alex Balashov via VoiceOps > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Mar 18, 2026, at 11:37 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I wish my upstream (Twilio) had a big "Flag as Spam" button or API call >>> that would send all the relevant info to whomever needs to know. >>> >>> E-mail sorta has spam reporting handled, but Voice/SMS doesn't appear to >>> have that sorted out yet. >> >> I have been receiving the "tax resolution center" / "loan determination" / >> "debt consolidation" scam calls, many of them from TFNs, for close to a year >> at this point. They often overwhelm my phone, sometimes several come in at >> the same time from different DIDs, and they often interrupt other tasks or >> calls. >> >> I don't know what to do about it other than change my number (TMO), which >> I'm unwilling to do with how much 2FA and business stuff is tied to it. >> Turning on the iOS "ignore calls from unfamiliar numbers" is also totally >> not an option because I get lots of legitimate calls from unfamiliar >> numbers. It's really, really, really bad. I seem to have been singled out >> for an exceptional volume of these. >> >> I have on occasion pressed '2' on their IVR to speak to an "agent". The >> transfers are instant with no hold time. 100% of "agents" have been Indian. >> >> -- Alex >> >> -- >> Alex Balashov >> Principal Consultant >> Evariste Systems LLC >> Web: https://evaristesys.com, https://www.csrpswitch.com >> Tel: +1-706-510-6800 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> VoiceOps mailing list -- [email protected] >> https://lists.voiceops.org/postorius/lists/voiceops.voiceops.org/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list -- [email protected] > https://lists.voiceops.org/postorius/lists/voiceops.voiceops.org/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] -- Alex Balashov Principal Consultant Evariste Systems LLC Web: https://evaristesys.com, https://www.csrpswitch.com Tel: +1-706-510-6800 _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list -- [email protected] https://lists.voiceops.org/postorius/lists/voiceops.voiceops.org/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
