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This Guy Found a Way to Block Robocalls When Phone Companies Wouldn't
Aaron Foss won a $25,000 cash prize from the Federal Trade Commission for figuring out how eliminate all those annoying robocalls that dial into your phone from a world of sleazy marketers. The year was 2013. Using a little telephone hackery, Foss found a way of blocking spammers while still allowing the emergency alert service and other legitimate entities to call in bulk. Basically, he re-routed all calls through a service that would...
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I was thinking about this the other day, after reading yet another email from Vontage with the text output from a robocall message.
The problem has already been solved, just not implemented. Set up an IVR that announces "please press 7 to talk to a human being". Anything which does not press the right number gets shitcanned.
So, humans get through without a hassle, robocallers talk to robocallers, and my phone won't ring in the middle of the night.
I like this guy's idea, too.