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"air duct cleaning services" phone calls
For the last few months I've been getting unsolicited phone calls from "air duct cleaning services" almost daily. It's always from a different phone number, so I can't block them. I keep asking them ...
I think these offshore companies use an automated dailing system that transfers to a person on the first ring. Call Control kicks in before the first ring so it will never transfer. If they are manually dialling it would be very time consuming and inefficient. In that case I would make it even more time consuming for them. Say "Can you hold while I check my furnace to see when it was last cleaned?" Then put them on hold until they hang up.
Have you looked into the call control feature here.
Best not to answer the phone and tell them to remove you. They’re not even located in canada and don’t follow any rules.
Yeah, I've considered the call control feature, but was hoping for a solution that didn't involve measures that were inconvenient for myself or any of the people who legitimately try to call me. I'm not fond of the idea of having to keep a whitelist up-to-date with phone numbers of legitimate bot callers (such as my kids' schools, the doctor's office, and who knows what else). Inadvertently missing just one legitimate call would be worse than having to put up the the almost-daily annoyance of this "air duct cleaning services" call.
The Call Control isn't that intrusive. You can keep an exception list that bypasses Call Control but anyone not on that list only has to verify once. The next time they won't need to do it again.
