You want to look up “call screening services”. I’m afraid I can’t help more than that, since I personally have never used any.
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200ok@lemmy.world 2 months agoCan I get this for my personal number? 🤔
Decoy321@lemmy.world 2 months ago
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 2 months ago
I don’t think so. Either that or it’s going to be pricey and not likely to work with a cell phone natively like how it is now with your wireless carrier.
One of my pervious jobs used RingCentral which is what I had in mind with my comment. They do have an iPhone and Android app that can send and receive texts and calls, but it’s all strictly through their app. I suppose you could do a forward to your number, but you’re going to need to have an existing number for that which kind of defeats this purpose.
You can manage call queues and the like on the backend in the browser to create something like this where it would send callers through a maze of menus to eventually be able to get to you.
Additionally, you could program a key press to you that wouldn’t be made known to callers such as pressing 7 to immediately be “transferred” to you (something you’d only tell trusted callers calling you) but that’s not stated in the call queue prompt.
I also imagine any business VoIP has a set minimum of numbers/users to sign up with them since they’re really for business, not personal use. But hey! Give it a shot and see or try one of their competitors.
Kind of an interesting thing to think about since you mentioned it.
200ok@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Great idea re: having a number that only certain people know to use to get transferred directly!!