IVR Spam Block

[Stewart1 (Stewart)]

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Of Robocalls and Whitelists

[The functionality of these scripts is largely superseded by the AllowList Module] … of cabbages and kings. I have several DIDs published for business purposes, and as time passes, they become incrementally more prone to robocalls. This is to the point now that robocalls may well outnumber legitimate calls, with some days being intolerable. The FreePBX blacklist is unable to deal with them effectively because there is no consistency to the Caller ID, nor have I wanted to force all callers to n…

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FreePBX AllowList Caller Module -- to block all but a list of allowed callers

[This module is now installed from the FreePBX Repos with FreePBX 15 - mod] We’ve been getting lots of spam calls lately so I decided to try and see if I could create a module that would let me block all callers not in a allowed list. I started with the Blacklist module and essentially reversed the logic so that callers on the list are allowed through and all others blocked or sent to the destination selected. I did change one aspect of the logic so that if a non-allowlisted destination is no…