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From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
In article <10djk4c$3lliv$1@dont-email.me>,
Your Name wrote:
>On 2025-10-25 09:23:45 +0000, Daniel70 said:
>
>> On 25/10/2025 2:30 am, Hornplayer9599 wrote:
>>> On 10/24/2025 05:01, Daniel70 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So now that Answer Machine (eventually) answers the call and says I'm
>>>> not home .... by which time the Spammers Dialer machine has usually
>>>> hung up!!
>>>>
>>>> Job DONE.
>>>
>>> Many years ago, back when I still had a land line, I was getting
>>> bombarded with spam dials every day. Then I saw something on the shelf
>>> at Wal-Mart (stop laughing :) ) that claimed to help cut down on those
>>> calls. What you did is you plugged this thing into the wall jack, then
>>> plug the phone into the other end. What this thing did was every time
>>> the phone rang and you either picked up, or let the answering machine
>>> pick up, it would send out the three tones that lets the calling party
>>> know that a phone number is disconnected, or otherwise not in service.
>>> When a spam dial hears those tones, they would stop calling the number
>>> in question.
>>>
>>> It worked...within a month the spam dials dropped off to almost nothing.
>>> Of course, I had to let friends and family and any business I wanted to
>>> talk to know that they needed to ignore those tones.
>>>
>> So it resulted in you being de-listed ... by/to the Spam Bots. Good.
>
>We've always had an unlisted landline number, which cuts down on spam
>calls, although of course doesn't work with robo-callers (computer
>controlled or people simply dialling sequential numbers). We have very
>rarely ever gotten spam calls at all.
>
>
Smart idea.
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