{"id":1157,"date":"2014-08-21T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T00:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2014-08-21T17:09:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T00:09:24","slug":"nomorobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/21\/nomorobo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomorobo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nomorobo means &#8220;No more robo-calls&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>Last year the FTC issued a challenge to develop a system that would help reduce the huge amounts of telemarketing phone calls.  One of the two winners of the challenge was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nomorobo.com\" title=\"Nomorobo\">Nomorobo<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I <em>hate<\/em> telemarketers!  My Ooma phone system has private and community blacklists, and it helps a lot, but we still get 1-2 telemarketers getting through every day.<\/p>\n<p>I just set up the free Nomorobo system, so I can&#8217;t really say yet how well it works, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/business\/2014\/01\/12\/cnbc-robocalls\/4393949\/\" title=\"USAToday\">reviews<\/a> by other users are very positive.  Unfortunately it won&#8217;t work with many of the current phone companies.  It pretty much requires a VOIP (Internet) phone.  So no Verizon, Century Link, AT&#038;T.  It is compatible with my Ooma VOIP phone.<\/p>\n<p>Nomorobo requires that your phone system support &#8220;simultaneaous ring&#8221;, so that when you get a call it also connects to the Nomorobo office.  They quickly analyze the call and if it is a telemarketer it is immediately blocked.  If it is valid it rings through to my house.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll see how it goes and report back here later.<\/p>\n<p>Note:  On my cell phone I use the Android app &#8220;Call Control&#8221; which seems to work very well.  I get almost no telemarketer calls on my cell phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomorobo means &#8220;No more robo-calls&#8221;. Last year the FTC issued a challenge to develop a system that would help reduce the huge amounts of telemarketing phone calls. One of the two winners of the challenge was &#8220;Nomorobo&#8220;. I hate telemarketers! My Ooma phone system has private and community blacklists, and it helps a lot, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}