RE: Caller ID

Caller ID has actually become almost useless as the telemarketers have
figured out how to defeat it. While both of my phones have Caller ID
built-in, I find useless unless it's someone I already know who has not
blocked their number or made the number to show up as out of area.

I stumbled onto a neat little device called the zapper that has cut my
telemarketing calls down about 300%.  The idea behind the Zapper is that
when the phone line is picked up either by the owner or the answering
machine, it send out a tone that represent the telephone companies
signal that the line is disconnected.  The tone is interpreted by the
calling computer (most calls are dialed by a computer) as disconnected
and will dump the phone number from their queue.

Now, it should not be too difficult to write a small program to do the
same thing using the sound card to send the disconnect tone.

Jeff Steinkamp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 09 July, 2003 09:58
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Delphi] Caller ID
>
>
> Jerry, I can see your point - and my idea is certainly not
> intended as a
> commercial app or for a commercial or governmental concern.
> It was just
> something I was thinking about for around the house - we
> probably get 10-15
> telemarketing calls a day at our house - most of them hang up when the
> answering machine answers, so I have a tape full of clicks
> and dialtones
> that I have to empty daily.  Some of these telemarketers have
> gotten smarter
> about the Caller ID data - I had one the other day from the number
> 210-000-0000 which may very well be a valid number but not
> someone I want to
> talk to - other calls have the number in both the name and
> the number data,
> so my caller ID says 210-123-4567 in two places on the same call.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerald J. Clancy, Jr." <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 11:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [Delphi] Caller ID
>
>
> > This can be dangerous. In our case we have the governor's
> office and many
> > state agencies as clients and their calls come in as
> "unknown". It would
> be
> > a disaster for us not to answer them. What is even worse
> for us is that
> > when we moved last year we were assigned a new and
> desirable  number for
> > our area code, we thought. Turns out, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, no small
> > concern, has an 800 number with the same exchange and
> number. Worse yet,
> > it's for their Human Resources Dept. We suffer dozens of
> these "wrong
> > numbers" each day from people who apparently have dislexia
> or something
> > when it comes to seeing the number "800".
> >
> > Jerry
>
>
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