Re:Eliminating Robocalls
by Noah-Huppert on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:39PM
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I wrote a tool which uses Twilio to screen out robocalls: https://github.com/noah-huppert/human-call-filter
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Re:Eliminating Robocalls
by gregorymichael on Monday March 18, 2019 @05:19PM
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Hey Noah! This is pretty sweet. Would love to send you a t-shirt. Care to drop me an email at [email protected]?
Re:Eliminating Robocalls
by Noah-Huppert on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:54PM
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Sure thanks!
Are you aware of any robocallers that have answered your "simple arithmetic question" correctly?
Re:Eliminating Robocalls
by Noah-Huppert on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:54PM
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Not that have targeted me!
If you have encountered any robo callers who have please let me know.
My idea was that if the robo callers get past the simple arithmetic questions I would give them harder ones like "which of these items doesn't belong? 1) ball 2) blue 3) red 4) green?" or other SAT / standardized test questions.
Which of the following is my name? a) Rupert, b) Noah c) Robert ') drop table us_phone_numbers;
Ditto, except the one I wrote only works for landlines. https://github.com/dgnorton/norobo
Re:Eliminating Robocalls
by Noah-Huppert on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:15PM
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Cool! Definitely very helpful. I still get tons of robo calls on the landline.
Re:Eliminating Robocalls
by justusthane on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:37AM
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That is very cool. I love how retrofuturistic it feels.