[plug] block lists for phones

[Onno Benschop]

I'm pretty sure that those numbers are completely meaningless. I see them
arriving on my mobile phone.

As a result my phone is on silent and I no longer answer my phone unless
it's a number in my address book and I happen to be looking at it.

If it's a real call, people leave a message, if not, I add them to my block
list. It's partially effective because they often use the same numbers more
than once on the same day, often within a minute.

If you cannot get your VoIP provider to block the incoming call based on
that IP block list, your real only option is to route all calls through a
filter process. Check if it's in the address book and let it through, if
not, divert to voicemail and see if they leave a message.

Mind you, for a while I was getting voicemail in Chinese, so it's not
foolproof, but it's better than the phone ringing at all hours with a
scammer attempting to extract money.
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On Thu, 6 July 2023, 20:15 William Kenworthy, <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Thanks Onno, interesting but not what I was after.  I am looking for a
> list of Australian spam numbers - the pbx is behind a firewall with only
> the upstream IP/port able to access it so its numbers coming through the
> VoIP provider I am after.
>
> BillK
>
>
> On 5/7/23 17:57, Onno Benschop wrote:
>
> http://www.networksystemssolutions.org.uk/voipblocklist.php
>
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> On Wed, 5 July 2023, 12:00 William Kenworthy, <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of a bloclkist for phone numbers? - I have asterisk
>> running on a VOIP landline and have started blocking spammers (Not sure
>> how they found the number, but its been recent! - one or two calls a
>> day) but they seem to have quite a large list of numbers. I cant find
>> anything public, but something like an email spam blocklist seems like
>> it might exist?
>>
>> BillK
>>
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