Hi All. Does anybody know if Google/Android has an API I can sign up for that will allow us to query the caller ID and find out if it is spam or a robocaller? I ask because we've had increase in spam calls and I'd like to simply play dead air or something really annoying. Thanks all, Alex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20191210/61a53e7b/attachment.html>
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 11:01 AM Alexander Perkins <alexanderhenryperkins at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi All. Does anybody know if Google/Android has an API I can sign up for that will allow us to query the caller ID and find out if it is spam or a robocaller?I don't think that there is a public (free) API. All robocall protection services are paid ones. You can find several on Twilio from US$ 0.003 up to US$ 0.06 per query, depending on what you are looking for.
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Most spam calls are robocalls these days. At my house, I can block pretty much all of the robocalls by requiring the caller to take some action before ringing the phones. In our case, the action is just to dial 1 for my wife or 2 for me. The only difference it makes in the end is which voice mailbox the caller gets transferred to if no one answers, but since asterisk so programmable, there are a lot of ways to accomplish the basic concept. I can see tons of calls in my log that never get through to bother us. --Greg On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:58 AM Alexander Perkins < alexanderhenryperkins at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi All. Does anybody know if Google/Android has an API I can sign up for > that will allow us to query the caller ID and find out if it is spam or a > robocaller? I ask because we've had increase in spam calls and I'd like to > simply play dead air or something really annoying. > > Thanks all, > Alex > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > Check out the new Asterisk community forum at: > https://community.asterisk.org/ > > New to Asterisk? Start here: > https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Getting+Started > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20191212/6f2ecc28/attachment.html>
This is exactly what I do - “press 1 for a human”
Works great
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Most spam calls are robocalls these days. At my house, I can block pretty much
all of the robocalls by requiring the caller to take some action before ringing
the phones. In our case, the action is just to dial 1 for my wife or 2 for me.
The only difference it makes in the end is which voice mailbox the caller gets
transferred to if no one answers, but since asterisk so programmable, there are
a lot of ways to accomplish the basic concept. I can see tons of calls in my log
that never get through to bother us.
--Greg
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:58 AM Alexander Perkins <alexanderhenryperkins at
gmail.com<mailto:alexanderhenryperkins at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi All. Does anybody know if Google/Android has an API I can sign up for that
will allow us to query the caller ID and find out if it is spam or a robocaller?
I ask because we've had increase in spam calls and I'd like to simply
play dead air or something really annoying.
Thanks all,
Alex
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On 12/12/19 5:33 PM, Greg Woods wrote:> Most spam calls are robocalls these days. At my house, I can block > pretty much all of the robocalls by requiring the caller to take some > action before ringing the phones. In our case, the action is just to > dial 1 for my wife or 2 for me. The only difference it makes in the end > is which voice mailbox the caller gets transferred to if no one answers, > but since asterisk so programmable, there are a lot of ways to > accomplish the basic concept. I can see tons of calls in my log > that never get through to bother us.Not bad. I was toying with another idea. I find that if I don't answer a robot fast enough it just hangs up. How about ring two or three times before passing to the actual extension? -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain Vybe Networks Inc. A unit of Excelsior Solutions Corporation - Propelling Business Forward http://www.VybeNetworks.com/ IM:darcy at Vex.Net VoIP: sip:darcy at VybeNetworks.com