Re: Here's something about your cell phone that


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Posted by David Sherman on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 14:27:11 :

In Reply to: Re: Here's something about your cell phone that posted by Mark S. on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 12:37:25 :

No. Those hang-up calls these days are usually "predictive dialers", which are used by telemarketers, political campaigns, etc to call every phone number they can find, and then if it sounds like some real person answers, they switch it to a live person. A lot of times the detection mechanism doesn't work right or there's no live operator available in the boiler room at the moment that you answer, so it just hangs up. Even when they work right, the clue is that when I answer and say, "Hello, this is David Sherman", there's a pause, some clicks, and somebody with a foreign accent and a lot of background noise comes on and says, "Hello, may I speak to David Sherman?" to which I reply, "If you weren't using a predictive dialer, you'd have heard me just say, "Hello, this is David Sherman." That throws their script all off, and they have no clue how the machine they're plugged into works, so all they can do is apologize and start over. Another source of "hang-up" calls, though not so much as a few years ago, is people trying every possible number to see if there's a modem on the end of it, and if so, if the modem happens to be attached to a computer that they can hack into.

It's my understanding that there are signal codes that will turn on an answering machine microphone remotely, although the method that's described in the answering machine manuals requires sending the ringing signal and getting the machine to go through its answering routine, during which you enter a particular code to set it into "monitor" mode.



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