NoMoRobo

Have they explained how they differentiate between a doctor's office and a scammer spoofing the Caller ID of that doctor's office?

The website, and other comments, say that the end user 'doesn't need to subscribe to CID.'
I wonder if they could be using ANI instead of CID? Might that make it possible to see around CID spoofing?

Someone with a lot more knowledge of the esoterics of modern telephony than me might be able to comment more.

Excerpted from a recent CNBC report: "Nomorobo’s algorithm uses caller ID and call frequency information to screen incoming calls.  For now, it’s using a database of 1.2 million phone numbers from complaints filed with state and federal regulators.  In future, calls coming to subscribers will be added."

Sounds like the DNC list is being used almost exclusively for now.  If the scammers spoof a number not on the DNC, it will go through; unless the call velocity from that number fits a pattern associated with a known robocaller source.  If those doctor calls have been reported to the DNC complaint list in sufficient numbers (anybody know the magic number?), then NoMoRobo would not allow the call.  

I think we can all agree that no anti-robocalling system is perfect and the choice to use the new NoMoRobo system is entirely up to the individual.  

I have one landline that is plagued by robocalls, my other numbers are not.  I would like to have NoMoRobo on my landline and have my doctors, etc. call my other phones.  In this way I minimize the risk of missing important calls.

View full CNBC report here: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/you-can-say ... alls-8C11279205 

Write NoMoRobo if you have specific questions about how the service works: info@nomorobo.com

" If the scammers spoof a number not on the DNC, it will go through;"

Especially if they call using a string of numbers that are not valid. I have gotten calls and the caller ID will show "O" or it will show up with a V followed by a string of numbers.

I'd hope NoMoRobo could "white list" numbers certified to be legitimate users of robocalling--damn few of those.    Of course the crooks would attempt to spoof them, but hopefully something could be developed to minimize that abuse.

One of the biggest problems is the whole spoofing issue.   If spoofing itself could be frustrated it would go a long way to stopping illegal calls, robo or otherwise.  VOIP may make this impossible, but perhaps worth a look.

CenturyLink Landline Customers, besides calling them at 1-877-348-9007 for them to add Simultaneous Ringing for Nomorobo, you should write to these two corporate excutives.

Glen F. Post, III                                                                 Girish Varma
Chief Executive Officer and President                               Executive Vice President, Information Technology
                                                                                          Services

Address for both:   CenturyLink, Inc.
                              100 CenturyTel Drive
                               Monroe, LA 71203

Just FYI......I signed up for nomorobo last week, and it is working great!  I have VOIP through Vonage here in Western Washington.  I was getting these robo calls every freakin' day, and most were the same ones calling every day.

I need help with Nomorobo. I recently signed up for this service and I love it. I haven't had a robo call since signing up. However, I am a substitute teacher and we have a automated calling service that calls us when there is a teaching job available. The prefix of that number is 570 and on my caller ID it shows "Unknown Name'. Nomorobo is blocking that number and I don't want it to. It's probably doing that because that number calls thousands of substitute teachers. Is there any way to allow that specific number to get through? I need to work and without those calls it limits the number of jobs I can find. So for he moment I had to turn off the service until I get an answer. The minute I did I got a damn robo call! Any answers would be appreciated.

"Nomorobo is blocking that number and I don't want it to."

And so it begins...

In a 10/2 interview documented at DSL Reports http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28705395-Nom ... sable-with-VOIP the founder of Nomorobo said: “The legal robocallers want a solution just as much as the average consumer. We'll have a "white list" of legal robocall service companies. Just before their voice blast goes out, they'd send a message to Nomorobo so the system would know: Don't block that number.”

Obviously it is not Nomorobo’s intention to block legal robocalls. Unfortunately, due to the Govt shutdown, the DNC website is unavailable and I cannot cite links to the website where whitelists are discussed. However, Nomorobo was to use the FTC/DNC whitelist at startup and update the whitelist over time.

Registering on the DNC as a legal telemarketer would add that company to the whitelist. Your substitute teacher organization should probably do that. Doing so would also let them know if they had been placed on the blacklist due to historical complaints filled against their phone numbers. By the way, prefix 570 is found in almost all States and the full 10 digit number would be required for registering.

I do not know whether Nomorobo has its own process for registering legal robocallers. Perhaps your teacher organization should contact them at info@nomorobo.com.

If your teacher org gives you the option to get email alerts, maybe that would work for you until they get whitelisted?

Hey folks,

There's a product coming out that BLOCKS 100% OF ALL unwanted robocalls, legal and illegal, and discourages telemarketers. It's The Tel-Lynx Connexion, or TLC, developed by nVideon, Inc., a small start-up in Atlanta, GA.

TLC is a device that blocks robocalls using a whitelist that you create from your mobile phone's phone book. It's a big improvement over Nomorobo, because with Nomorobo's blacklist, robocallers can spoof caller ID, and you have to keep adding numbers to the blacklist. Nomorobo also requires VoIP as well as simultaneous ring, which only some phone services provide.

TLC is a device and not a service, so there are no monthly fees and no internet is required. TLC has LOTS of other great features as well. Please take a look at tel-lynx.com, where you'll find lots of info and a link to our Kickstarter project.

One TLC product will be one-line, and another will be two-line, so you can use it if you have a home business. Say goodbye to robocalls!!! We haven't had a robocall in three years! Go to tel-lynx.com.

Susan Hodges
nVideon, Inc.

And it has the same problems nomorobo has.  It blocks the call from the hospital where they just took your elderly mother, the police station where they took your son.  The convenience store where your daughter stopped when her car and her cell phone both broke down.  The call from the pharmacy when your prescription is ready.  The call when the Red Cross calls to beg for another donation and again when they call to remind you of your donation appointment.  The list is endless.

No one can possibly know every single number that might make a legitimate call.  Any system will block calls that should be allowed.

TLC does not have the same problem. If someone in your inner circle calls from an unknown phone, they can either enter the last four digits of their phone number that is in TLC's phone book, or they can enter a secret code that you set up. Either way, they'll get through right away.

Because we spent 3 years developing TLC, we have thought of ways to solve many other problems in addition to robocalls.

You say that someone "can either enter the last four digits of their phone number that is in TLC's phone book, or they can enter a secret code that you set up". How does a legitimate caller who's never called me before know to do that?