[GRLUG] $50K Prize if You Find Way to Block Robocalls

[Benjamin Flanders]

Does Google Voice have an api?  The only way I could see to do this would
be a rather large invasion of privacy and only work for Google voice
customers.  Send every incoming number to a service that checks to see if
that same number called other GV users in a pattern indicative of a robo
call.

Um, Mike just replied with what I was thinking.


Share and Enjoy
Ben


On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Difficult to do with only access to the phone line, but it would be
> comparatively easy for the phone company itself to block these calls.
> They'd have to implement an algorithm not unlike those used to detect
> credit card fraud, or spam.  If they detect 'spammy' behavior from an
> incoming line, they block it.  Of course, this might not make them so
> popular with the robocallers, who pay for all those phone lines.  Less
> politically risky to try to block the calls at the receiving end.
>
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Casey DuBois <casey at grlug.org> wrote:
> > I've always wanted to figure out how to Block Robocalls but now that
> > someone's offering up real cash!!!
> >
> > What do you guys think? Can we figure it out?
> >
> >
> http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-DS-50K-Prize-if-You-Find-Way-to-Block-Robocalls-110512.aspx?et_cid=2933257&et_rid=41416611&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.scientificcomputing.com%2fnews-DS-50K-Prize-if-You-Find-Way-to-Block-Robocalls-110512.aspx
> >
> > Casey DuBois
> > 616-808-6942
> > casey at grlug.org
> >
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