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

[megadave]

I use google voice, and get no robocalls at all, despite that being
the main number I provide anywhere I need to provide a number.

Its set to ring through on calls from specific known contacts only -
everyone else gets voicemail.

If something calls and leaves no message, I can just ignore it. If its
an important call from a real person, they would have left a message.

And FWIW, google voice offers an option as follows:

Global Spam Filtering - Send calls and text messages from numbers
identified as spam by Google directly to the Spam folder



On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Benjamin Flanders <flanderb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > grlug mailing list
>> > grlug at grlug.org
>> > http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug
>> _______________________________________________
>> grlug mailing list
>> grlug at grlug.org
>> http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> grlug mailing list
> grlug at grlug.org
> http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug