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Hello-- I've been playing with the privacy options on my home/home-office system since August last year, and have some results, gleaned from my CDR records, which over the last 13 months, number a total of 8672, which includes incoming, as well as outgoing calls. Before I start spitting out numbers, let me note that with the current setup, I haven't had to tell a single telemarketer

Hi, I have the following requirements I'd like to implement with asterisk: 1. Asterisk notifies interested PC's on the network that there's an incoming call so that the telemarketing app can bring up the customer automagically 2. If a telemarketer makes a call and the customer isn't there and they arrange a callback, the callback is diverted to the originating telemarketers phone

Does anyone know if there is a known list of telemarketers? Something like http://whocalled.us/ with an easier access? We could all benefit if there was such a thing :-) If there is enough interest, I could put up a database that everyone can benefit from. I just need some suggestions on: (1) Adding new numbers based on community responses (some rule to sanity check) (2) Method that everyone

In my blacklist I have: database show ... /blacklist/Manitoba : advertising ... [incoming] ; First, lets take care of telemarketers exten => 4,1,GotoIf(${BLACKLIST()}?blacklisted,s,1) exten => 4,n,Set(goaway=${CALLERID(number):0:2}) exten => 4,n,GotoIf($["${goaway}" = "V4" ]?blacklisted,s,1) exten => 4,n,GotoIf($["${goaway}" = "V3"

The US has a Do Not Call list to which people can subscribe to prevent being called by advertisers. Federal laws (strengthened by some state and more local laws) assign penalties for calling people/phones on the DNCL. Is there a query gateway that Asterisk (or an app using Asterisk) can filter through to ensure a number is OK to call (not on the list) before calling it? -- (C) Matthew Rubenstein

does anyone have a recorder GSM file that emulates the Telco's "if you are a telemarketer please hangup now" recording? I don't see one in the sounds dir. the ZapATEller works great for computerized callers but if a human hears this message asking them to go away they have to. Isn't that right? Dave

I have 2 asterisk servers - serverA and serverC - connected via IAX2. On serverA, I have a "telemarketer hold" extension which, if I transfer a caller into it, loops around playing music & "please wait" messages, until they give up & hang up the phone. Also on serverA, I have a custom devstate, which lights a lamp on a phone connected to serverA, which tells me if

Hello, I'm trying to setup an Asterix PBX solution in our office. We plan to have 5 active lines open available at any point in time. We'd like to use VoIP Phones, and possibly Software Based phone (*NIX/Windows enviroment). I was researching the various cards and I think I'd want to go with the Digium TDM40B - 4-port. However, I can't figure the differences between FXS &

Hi, I have some annoying telemarketer calling me on a recurring basis, but I'd like to discourage them a bit and have some fun. I found this: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+AEL+Telemarketer+Torture but the link to download the sound files is dead (wyoming.e-tools.com is NXDOMAIN). Anyone have a copy of these? -Adam

Hello-- I submitted of extensions.conf that contains my "telemarketer torture" menus, last week sometime to the mailing list. I got back a note from the mailing list machinery, stating that it was too big, and would be subject to approval. No such approval came, I guess. Either I missed it, or it didn't rate, or the moderator just plain hasn't gotten around to it yet. So, I

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Hi, I've been reading all I can on Google (and Asterisk TFOT book) looking for ideas on how to implement an automated blacklist feature. I would like to automatically blacklist a incoming number based on timestamp and count information. For example, if I get a prank call from the same number 5 times within 15 minutes, I want my dialplan to automatically blacklist this number. Should I be

I have been bugging by a telemarketer who does not take any cue at all. So I look up the Asterisk Handbook and send his call with the respect caller id to my voicemail. Has any one implemented any of this feature with database for more caller ids to be included?? David Kwok

Hi. I am trying to set up my Asterisk box to block anonymous calls. I am having some grief from telemarketer calls to my number and I would like to block it. I see from my CDR's that some of my callers also have "unknown" in their FROM field. I would like to let them through. Only block the FROM "anonymous" that the telemarketers use. Have anyone here done it and

Has anyone had any luck with the DEV LITE KIT? I'm getting very erradic behavior. I'll start it up and it will answer maybe one or two calls then hang leaving my phone in an off hook state or giving a loud shrill tone. It keeps saying "Red Alarm". Once it hangs it will not answer the phone again until I reboot. Starting and stopping Asterisk or reloading the drivers does not

I'd like to transfer all my pesky telemarketing calls to Jolly Roger . http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/fashion/a-robot-that-has-fun-at-telemarketers-expense.html In the middle of a call I'd hit some DTMF sequence, which would dial Jolly Roger and transfer the call after Jolly Roger answers. But blindtransfer requires an extension after you hear "transfer". And I don't

Here's a question I haven't seen asked nor answered on this list: Is there a provider who offers incoming 900# services? I want to establish a 900# to be used in (about 60-70) domain registrations, to deter telemarketers from calling yet still comply with ICANN requirements for a valid phone number. Alternatively, does anyone know of a source for super-low cost DIDs (like free

I am not that good at regex and it's use in Asterisk. I am running Asterisk 1.4.13 Currently I have this in my extensions.conf for incoming calls on our house phone line: [housemenu] exten => s,1,GotoIF($["${CALLERID(num)}" = "815xxxxxxx"]?s|12); 815xxxxxxx is our home phone number, when caller id fails or is missing that is what is recorded. I want to expand this

Hey all...I'm brand new to * and I want to convert my home into a pbx type setup. I've figured out that I want a Wildcard X100P to bring my single POTS CO into my Linux box. My problem is that I'm sure sure what I need to do to get my analog phones connected up into a structured phone system. It *looks* like I can go the route of the Cisco Analog -> VOIP for about $100 on ebay.

Hey all...I'm just getting my * setup and right now all I have is an FXO but no FXS. I wan't to get rid of telemarketers by having * pick up the phone if there is no CID present, give the caller the Zapateller tones and then ask the user to input their phone number via Privacy Manager (yes I realize that this won't get us any where given that I can't re-ring the phones without FXS