{"id":24880,"date":"2015-10-01T02:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=24880"},"modified":"2015-09-11T16:21:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T23:21:41","slug":"telebouncer-blocker-tb1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/telebouncer-blocker-tb1000\/","title":{"rendered":"TeleBouncer Blocker TB1000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several years, one of the most annoying aspects of my life has been the incessant and unstoppable telephone spam &#8212; four, five, six calls or more cold calls a day from telemarketers. The do-not call lists are worthless. Telemarketers pay no attention to them.<\/p>\n<p>Most mechanical devices to block such calls are based on caller ID, for which the phone company charges $10 a month. Then you have to keep updating your list of blocked numbers. On top of which, your phone keeps ringing for each new number that you haven&#8217;t blocked yet.<\/p>\n<p>Then I discovered TeleBouncer from Demys, a blocker that has nothing to do with caller ID. Rather, it intercepts all incoming calls and tells callers to press 1 (or 2 or 3) to reach you. Only after the caller presses 1 does your phone ring. This immediately shuts out robocallers and all recorded messages.<\/p>\n<p>My outgoing message says, &#8220;Hi, this is Lee. If I know you, I&#8217;m happy to talk to you. Please press 1 now. If you&#8217;re a telemarketer, I&#8217;m not buying anything. Please hang up now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had my TeleBouncer for nearly a month, and I haven&#8217;t received a single spam call in that time.<\/p>\n<p>The only downside is that after you&#8217;ve installed a TeleBouncer, the only phone that does ring (once a caller has pressed 1) is the phone that the device is attached to. Fortunately, I can hear that phone from everywhere in my house.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reduce telemarketer calls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24882,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions\/24882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}