All of us are used to being pestered by Telemarketers.
They call you at any time.
They start with “Can I take some of Your Time(?) ?
My answer at times ,No, You can not”
In one instance, I had a Call asking me to invest Money for retirement and pension Plan.
My reply was ‘I am over sixty, if you have a scheme which pays me with out my paying I would be interested’
Some times I feel sorry for the Telecallers for they are simply doing their jobs to make a Living.
A blogger from Tumblr has come out with an idea to block the TeleCallers.
Read On.
Max, a designer from Chicago who maintains the blog Maxistentialist, got tired of telemarketing calls after providing his phone number to businesses. So, he bought a ‘junk’ number for $1 a month and created his own phonebot to answer it with “a twenty minute passage from Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities.”
In his blog post, kind Max also explains in detail how anyone can make their own phonebot, as follows:
Create a ridiculous voicemail message – Audacity is a great, free, cross-platform audio editor and recorder you can use.
Upload your audio file to a server, a public Dropbox link will also work.
Register an account at Twilio, hook up your credit card, and buy a number.
When you configure the number, paste this code into the Voice Request URL field:
http://twimlets.com/echo?Twiml=%3CResponse%3E%0A%3CPlay%3E[LINK TO YOUR AUDIO FILE HERE, MAKE SURE YOU USE ESCAPE CHARACTERS]%3C%2FPlay%3E%0A%3CRecord%20transcribe%3D%22true%22%20transcribeCallback%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Ftwimlets.com%2Fvoicemail%3FEmail%3D[YOUR EMAIL HERE, ALSO IN ESCAPE CHARACTERS]%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2FResponse%3E&Make sure the Request URL is set to “post.”
Go ahead and delete the SMS Request URL.
Test it – you should be good to go.
If you have questions, Max says ask him anything.
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