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and doesn’t ring your phone. Anonymous Caller Reject only blocks
calls where the caller has withheld their number. If the caller’s
number is not available for any other reason - for example it is an
international call - then Anonymous Caller Reject will let it through.
WARNING: Anonymous Caller Reject is very effective at blocking
malicious calls, but be aware that it may also block calls that you
want to receive. Doctors, hospitals, the Police, government
organisations and many companies routinely withhold their
numbers.
Your phone company can also offer you Anonymous Caller Reject,
but they charge up to £4 per month.
Screen all unrecognised callers
Some people screen all their calls - they like to send all callers to
their answering machine, listen to the message being left, and then
only pick up if it is someone they want to talk to. trueCall goes one
better than this. If you switch ON the Screen All Unrecognised
Callers feature (see page 22) Zapped callers will be rejected, and
Starred callers will ring your phone as normal, but all other callers
will be immediately sent to Message Manager and screened through
the speaker, so you can decide whether you want to pickup.
Handling persistent malicious callers
If you are receiving malicious calls, you may like to get trueCall to
only allow specific callers to ring your phone. All other callers are
then sent either directly to Message Manager to leave a message,
or are played the ringing tone, making it sound as though you’re not
at home.
You can do this in two ways:-
Starred callers Only
Only callers whose number you have Starred are able to ring your
phone.
Code Access Only
Callers are asked to enter a secret Caller’s Code before they can
get through to you. You can choose a code (up to 8 digits long)
and only give it out to people who you trust and want to hear
from.
These features can be set up in your Internet Control Panel.
How trueCall handles your calls
