[PPRAANet] Robo Call Blocker
Paul Signorelli
w0rw1 at msn.com
Tue Sep 15 12:25:26 EDT 2020
Robo Telephone Blocker
For years I have been plagued by spam Robo (Computer generated Robot) calls. Congress was going to get the Telephone Companies to block all those calls but the Corona Virus seems to have stalled that. My local Telephone company will block calls for a monthly fee but only up to 10 numbers.
So I stopped answering any landline calls and allowed my answering machine to answer all incoming calls. After a few months I noticed there were only about 30 different Robo phone numbers. Then I recorded all the numbers of the bad guys, That was easy to do because they go into my telephones memory as ‘Missed Calls”.
The Robo callers don’t use a different random address (Phone Numbers) like the email spammers. So I purchased a Call Blocker. I was getting 5 to 10 Robo calls per day.
Now when a Robo call comes in the Blocker compares the incoming caller ID number with the ‘black list’ and terminates the call.
i like it and it is simple to use, even with out a keyboard.
It is a Panasonic KX-TGA710B.
https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-Landline-One-Touch-Bilingual-KX-TGA710/dp/B07V6MZCLR#ace-7448806443
There are many different types, some have outgoing messages and keyboards.
i didn't have time to test them all, so this is just a report of the one i chose.
It doesn't have any out going call message, incoming call recording,
or keyboard input, but it is doing the job.
When some unknown suspicious call comes in it records the number in the 'call list'.
You can see the number and the Caller ID when it comes in on the LCD display or view it later from the call list.
If looks like a robo call, you just push the "Block Call" button and it will store the number in the 'Bad Guy' list.
Then it will block all the calls from that number forever and ever, Amen.
Paul w0rw
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