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Simple Step To Block Telemarketers.

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 eely 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.

Dropbox Hacked, Change Password

Close on the heels of LinkedIn  and Yahoo, now it is the turn of Dropbox to be hacked. Popular cloud storage service provider, Dropbox has acknowledged that the security of some of its users’ accounts was compromised. The users were getting…