Have you ever had a problem with auto-dialer calls coming to your phone repeatedly? Day and night it doesn’t stop. Somehow you ended up on a call list. It could be a telemarketer, a debt collector or even a political candidate asking for your vote. Whatever the case may be, it’s annoying!
You could pick up the phone and ask to be removed. That doesn’t always work though. American’s can register at the Do Not Call Registry, but that only works for telemarketers. So how do you stop all of these pests from calling your phone? The solution is to play them a little song.
This sound file is the key to getting removed from auto-dialer calling lists. When the auto-dialer calls your number, it listens for prompts. If it hears the sound in this file, it figures your number is no longer available and automatically removes your phone number from the list.
So how do you play this sound when an auto-dialer calls your phone? There are a few options.
Option 1
I sit at a computer all day. So I decided to save the sound file to the desktop on my PC. I then waited for any bothersome calls. I would then answer the call, crank my PC speakers up, and open the file. This worked quite well for me.
Option 2
Record a voicemail greeting and include the chime sound as part of the greeting. Simply play the file via your PC or MP3 player into the phone while recording your greeting and watch the auto-dialers drop like flies. Be sure the tone plays at the very beginning of your greeting. Otherwise it may not work.
Option 3
Use an app that automatically plays audio files when somebody calls. Auto Call Answer is one that I use on my Android. The problem with using this app though is that it doesn’t have any filtering built in to allow you to only play sounds to specific callers. It’s an all or nothing kind of thing, but an option nonetheless if you’re desperate and totally getting pummeled with auto-dialer calls.
I’m hoping one of these options work for you. Do you have any special methods for getting rid of auto-dialed calls? Share them in the comments section below.
Header photo by Tsahi Levent-Levi
Last modified September 16, 2012
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