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

[Michael Mol]

It will. You can't induce a caller to automatically dial a different
phone number. If you could, you'd see a lot more circumstances where
someone is asked to dial a local number, it gets redirected to a
pay-by-the-minute service, and the caller has no idea.

Once upon a time, scams like that occurred, but they depended on the
caller not being able to recognize that, e.g. 1-808-xxx-xxx wasn't a
toll-free number, and having them dial the pay-by-the-minute number
directly and get stuck in a hold queue. (Actually, not sure about that
area code. There was one or two that was difficult to distinguish from
1-888 and 1-800)

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Casey DuBois <casey at grlug.org> wrote:
> How do I test this to guarantee it doesn't bill me???
>
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> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Patrick Goupell <patrick at upmerchants.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 11/07/2012 02:15 PM, Casey DuBois wrote:
>>>
>>> On the flip side is there a way when we get a robocall to forward them
>>> (at their expense) to India or some far off land?
>>
>>
>> What about those 900 numbers?  Just forward it to one of those.
>>
>> Patrick
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