Press and hold 2?

[olds]

Just got the following, company email. Has anyone heard about the "press and hold two" thingie?



PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL

We are all getting lots of nuisance calls on our land lines, cell phones and Blackberry's. There are two fixes.

One: Register land lines,cell phones and Blackberry's on the Registry below.

https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

Two: When you pick up your cell phone, Blackberry or Land Line and you realize it is a nuisance call, press and hold the 2 button for four to five seconds and this will also automatically add your line to this registry.

 

[nonameo]

I don't know, but I do know that the DNC list is not well enforced, and that telemarketers sometimes use the list to call from.

 

[SmoochyTX]

Never heard of that before.

 

[bsobel]

The 2 thing is certainly not a standard, but it is possible they programmed your pbx/voip system to do something like that...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Interesting. Maybe the DMS is programmed to automatically add the number in the DNC if it hears that tone on a call. I'll have to try it. Probably depends on the end equipment though. A regular land line would be a DMS, but an office phone would be a PBX or voip system, though that also ends up hooking to an outside DMS.

Not sure about the DNC in US but here in Canada it's a joke. They introduced it not too long ago, practically everybody is exempt from it. The phone company should just offer a call block service, where you can add numbers to a block list, kinda like a spam blacklist.

 

[middlehead]

One of the calls I kept getting recently, I hit 0 and got a message saying my number had been removed.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I also heard playing the "this number is not available" tone works, but not sure if this is true.