{"id":2713,"date":"2007-09-19T14:40:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T12:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/block-unwanted-callers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:45:35","slug":"block-unwanted-callers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/block-unwanted-callers\/","title":{"rendered":"Block unwanted callers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Symbian screams\" title=\"Symbian screams\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/09\/monkey.png\" \/>I was interested to learn of a man from America who has set up his entire home phone operating system using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asterisk.org\/\">Asterisk<\/a>, open source software that IMs him whenever his phone rings, sets personalised MP3 &#8216;hold&#8217; music and, definitely the most interesting, redirects unwanted callers to the screams of monkeys. In tribute to this piece of genius, I thought I&#8217;d show you some other ways of ruining the lives of telemarketers and nuisance callers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blackballer.en.softonic.com\/symbian\">BlackBaller<\/a> (Symbian) &#8211; Blacklist salesmen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/call-filter.en.softonic.com\/symbian\">Call Filter<\/a> (Symbian) &#8211; Reject a call, send a nasty SMS<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/magicall.en.softonic.com\/windowsmobile\">MagiCall<\/a> (Win Mobile) &#8211; Block or hang-up, you choose<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/call-block.en.softonic.com\/pocket\">Call Block<\/a> (Palm and Pocket PC) &#8211; Block incoming calls by first or last digits<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/search\/advanced-call-manager\/phones\">Advanced Call Manager<\/a> (Symbian) &#8211; Separate friends, enemies and family into lists<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phonepilot.en.softonic.com\/symbian\">PhonePilot<\/a> (Symbian) &#8211; Engaged; reject; send SMS&#8230; 7 ways to avoid people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was interested to learn of a man from America who has set up his entire home phone operating system using Asterisk, open source software that IMs him whenever his phone rings, sets personalised MP3 &#8216;hold&#8217; music and, definitely the most interesting, redirects unwanted callers to the screams of monkeys. In tribute to this piece &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/block-unwanted-callers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Block unwanted callers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337061,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/337061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}