Blacklist by name
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 3:02 pm
Now that we have switched to Ooma, we are getting calls from a whole new class (to us) of telemarketers. The last couple of days calls have come from numbers with nothing in common, but having a name displayed in the form of "V040316100800788091"- the numeric parts of that template differ. I've never seen anything like that on our caller ID before Ooma. I would like the ability to blacklist by name, using wildcards.
I understand from reading other posts that the number of personal blacklist entries is limited to 256. At the rate I am going (as someone who has had my number ported for less than a week), I am going to reach that limit within a few months. Since the aforementioned are obviously Telemarketers, I cannot help but wonder about the effectiveness of community blacklists, and of personal blacklists, since it is clear that unwanted (or "junk") callers can change their caller ID at will. "Spoofing" is one widely known and well understood technique for doing that.
It seems based on the popularity of Ooma, that many more than one Premier subscriber must be getting calls from the same Callers. Would someone Ooma please inform the users on these forums as to what are the criteria for a number to be placed in the community blacklist?
I understand from reading other posts that the number of personal blacklist entries is limited to 256. At the rate I am going (as someone who has had my number ported for less than a week), I am going to reach that limit within a few months. Since the aforementioned are obviously Telemarketers, I cannot help but wonder about the effectiveness of community blacklists, and of personal blacklists, since it is clear that unwanted (or "junk") callers can change their caller ID at will. "Spoofing" is one widely known and well understood technique for doing that.
It seems based on the popularity of Ooma, that many more than one Premier subscriber must be getting calls from the same Callers. Would someone Ooma please inform the users on these forums as to what are the criteria for a number to be placed in the community blacklist?