I've been getting a lot of scam phone calls using local numbers, including my own. I'm pretty sure it's not my future self calling me to give me this weeks lottery numbers.
One thing I have noticed regarding scam calls in general is that often the calling number is provided (fake of course), but the caller name is not. HSP is displaying "O" in the name field. Not sure if it's HSP adding this or if that's actually the name being transmitted. I do know that most if not all legitimate calls do provide calling number AND name, or if CallerID is blocked then neither. These I'd want to continue to have treated as Private CallerID calls.
Can anyone provide pointers to modify the HSP scripts so that when a number is provided without a name (or O), the call will be treated as a blocked Caller ID. I do have a "Private" entry in my address book which doesn't ring in but eventually HSP is answering the call anyway. I'd need to just let the caller hear ringing without any answer to discourage them.
I've looked at these scripts in the past and they don't look to be too complicated but if I happen to screw up, I'd really have no way of knowing when my phone doesn't ring any more.
Thx
One thing I have noticed regarding scam calls in general is that often the calling number is provided (fake of course), but the caller name is not. HSP is displaying "O" in the name field. Not sure if it's HSP adding this or if that's actually the name being transmitted. I do know that most if not all legitimate calls do provide calling number AND name, or if CallerID is blocked then neither. These I'd want to continue to have treated as Private CallerID calls.
Can anyone provide pointers to modify the HSP scripts so that when a number is provided without a name (or O), the call will be treated as a blocked Caller ID. I do have a "Private" entry in my address book which doesn't ring in but eventually HSP is answering the call anyway. I'd need to just let the caller hear ringing without any answer to discourage them.
I've looked at these scripts in the past and they don't look to be too complicated but if I happen to screw up, I'd really have no way of knowing when my phone doesn't ring any more.
Thx
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