Abusive telephone advertising.How to filter calls from DECT?

Bonjour,

I'm fed up with receiving abusive telephone advertising, usually from automatic call machines.
How to filter calls from my Gigaset C610?
I downloaded datasheet but I don't see how filter call.

Do you have any idea?

Maybe, it is possible an APK application. I don't know?

Regards,
Leloup

Registering your number with TPS and ICO should help to reduce nuisance calls.

Better than nothing but, in general it's pretty ineffective.

My phone lets me set different ring tones for numbers in my phone book and those that I don't recognise. Mostly I let the latter go to the answer machine. 99 times out of 100 there is no message left.

But I have to confess that, when bored, I sometimes enjoy winding up the scammers. It can take the "Microsoft" lot quite a while to work out that I am using a Mac (but faithfully trying to follow their instructions).

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

But I have to confess that, when bored, I sometimes enjoy winding up the scammers. It can take the "Microsoft" lot quite a while to work out that I am using a Mac (but faithfully trying to follow their instructions).

I typically answer (in a frantic sounding voice) "OH MY GOD! THERE'S BLOOD EVERYWHERE AND HE'S NOT MOVING ANY MORE! WHAT SHALL I DO?" or another of an quite unexpected scenario. Sadly we don't get many of them.

Can you block the calls at a provider level? I know both my SIP provider & SIP gateway allow me to block & allow (on unknowns & wildcards - so if I have someone that calls me from 0345678910 but a shedload of scammers from 0345 generally I can allow the specific but block the rest)

After I switched to A&A VoIP, nuisance calls stopped completely. Not had one in over a year. Maybe it has so something to do with the announcement that the call is being recorded (I get an MP3 emailed to me for every inbound call.)
Previously I had used Talktalk's callsafe which asks callers to leave a message before it puts them through. That stops them in their tracks.

In reply to a post by TinyMongomery:

But I have to confess that, when bored, I sometimes enjoy winding up the scammers. It can take the "Microsoft" lot quite a while to work out that I am using a Mac (but faithfully trying to follow their instructions).

If it's a real person rather than an automated message, I find that wasting their time is more effective than "F-OFF". I ask who they want to speak to, and it's frequently about the recent "accident", then I say OK I'll just get him for you. By the time I've finished my coffee they will always have rung off and they don't seem to relish trying again.

The BT phones with call guardian or whatever it is called today work really well but will require some setup.

It basically works how you would setup a network e.g. no access unless specifically permitted.
All allowed numbers can be set to pass/ring where all others are announced and can be left to leave a message.

Call screening works well but we encountered one snag. While we can contact our surgery easily enough, the doctors return calls on withheld numbers which are blocked by our system. My wife cut the doctor off three times thinking it was the scammers again.

If you are expecting such a call, don't block it! An option is call screening, incoming callers state their name which is passed to the owner who can accept them or not. Our doctors don't mind this.(Oh yes, we're lucky to have doctors available at all!)

In reply to a post by Malwaremike:

Call screening works well but we encountered one snag. While we can contact our surgery easily enough, the doctors return calls on withheld numbers which are blocked by our system. My wife cut the doctor off three times thinking it was the scammers again.

The government should stop the NHS from doing this. If the doctor calls from another number the CLI number should be the normal one for the local surgery.

I agree, but just to note a GP Surgery isn’t NHS but a private business owned by the GPs. They would have to be convinced of the value in updating the phone system.

Many schools and other government offices had the same problem, most now present the CLID of the switchboard which commercial companies did decades ago.