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by ozi eagle

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Hi,

I originally posted this on the Q&A page,

"I have had a couple of phone calls recently, and when I answer I get a message along the lines of "I am sorry to disturb you this call was meant for an answering machine".

Has anyone any idea what this is?:- "

The following is a disturbing reply that I received.

"I would think it was a way of getting to reuse your dial tone, like this I call you (hook flash) and use your conference feature while on an inbound call and redial to another location may be abroad? I have never heard of being able to call on the DO Not call list and leave a message."

I felt that it would be a good topic to discuss, maybe giving more information and with possible ways to prevent your phone being misused this way, being put forward.

Thanks

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by black panther

This may be possible with the right conditions.

If I were you the first thing I would do is ring Telstra , Optus and confirm this is possible. It certainly would not hurt to check.

If you have conference enabled it may be.

You can also ask them to put a FREE trace on your line for 21 days to find out who is trying to do it. They will not let you know but they will contact the originator.

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All PBXs support hookflash transfers, and some phone companies support hookflash transfers as well. You will need to check with your phone company to see if it supports hookflash transfers on it?s lines. If your system is using telephone lines which do not support hookflash transfers and you do not have a PBX then you will need to use the "Dial and Conference" transfer method.

http://www.voiceguide.com/vghelp/html/modXfer.htm

by ip_fresh9

This may be possible with the right conditions.

If I were you the first thing I would do is ring Telstra , Optus and confirm this is possible. It certainly would not hurt to check.

Davis,
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by roger99a

Ditch the answering machine, the call waiting and all that other crap the phone cmpanies want to sell you.

Call waiting has to be one of the rudest things ever invented. Besides, if you have a cell phoen, another evil invention, people who need to get you have another number to call.

by mlacrosse

Actually, what you are receiving is a new for of telemarketing. They don't want you to answer, instead they want to leave you a message about the product or service they are selling. One of our universities used this as a marketing tool for a very short while - we quit when we started receiving too many complaints.

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