Telephone Hacks: Trick Automated Phone Bots into Never Calling You Again
2008/01/17/0921RTFA: http://lifehacker.com/343595/trick-automated-phone…
Automated phone bots keep interrupting your dinner with their pre-recorded marketing messages? Play the U.S. Special Information Tone signal for “vacant circuit” when you pick up the phone. Our brother site Consumerist says a reader who kept getting automated debt collection calls added the tone to the beginning of his voicemail greeting:
The next time the robot called, it thought it was getting a dead line and dutifully erased the number from its system. Voila, automatons be gone. Some places have autodialers that dont or have been tweaked to respond to SIT tones, but if youve got a persistent unwanted robot caller, its worth a shot.
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