Re: Anyone have a creative way of dealing with crank calls?

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From: Brent Capps
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:20

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In article <1992Dec7.232540.10505@news.cs.indiana.edu> <juyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
>In article <92342.170758JDG111@psuvm.psu.edu> <JDG111@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>How to beat crank calls...  Hmmm...
>>
>>If you are lucky enough to have call forwarding on your line, one simple way
>>of throwing a crank caller off is to forward all your calls to a
>>disconnected number at night.  Then, when the caller buzzes youthe next
>>
>
>What about forward it to a (900) number, will the caller responsible for the
>charge, or the forwarder?

The forwarding party.

On a tangent: this is one way of fooling ANI.  Because ANI always identifies
the billed party (that's what it's there for), bouncing your call off a
forwarded number will result in the called party identifying the forwarder,
not you.


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Brent Capps                          | 
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From: bcapps@atlastele.com (Brent Capps)
Subject: Re: Anyone have a creative way of dealing with crank calls?
Message-ID: <1992Dec11.222026.8629@atlastele.com>
Organization: Atlas Telecom Inc.
References: <ByvBnu.86v@acsu.buffalo.edu> <92342.170758JDG111@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Dec7.232540.10505@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:20:26 GMT
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