On Thu, 3 Jan 2019, Alan McKay wrote:
You could run your own Asterisk server and have
it take care of voicemail, etc.
That would be pretty redundant - voip.ms gives you access to a full
PBX and all features. It is pretty amazing for the price. You could
run a professional call center off it.
Agreed.
I set up voip.ms IVR (voice menus) for 100% effective spam-blocking years
ago. I was getting as many as 6 calls per day from duct cleaning spammers,
etc.
IVR answers incoming call and plays "Press 1 to prove you are a real
person and not Pierre Poutine". [1]
If caller does not press 1, after a timeout the system hangs up.
Automatic dialers (ADADs) won't catch my recording. If an autodialer
connects the terminated call to a human they won't have heard the message
and know to press 1, so they get disconnected.
A legit caller presses 1 and proceeds through the selective forwarding /
vmail etc. processing that I have.
I have also programmed the calling number filter to bypass this filter for
people whose numbers I know.
Brett
1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Canadian_federal_election_voter_suppression_scandal#Voter_suppression_across_Canada
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