[FRIAM] do you answer those phone calls?

[Russ Abbott]

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 <wimberly3 at gmail.com> 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 <
> barry.mackichan at mackichan.com> 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
>>
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