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I have some thing like that on my phone, if it's an anonymous or unknown number they have to type in a number and who they are before it rings at my house. Then if it's a telemarketer I can see it on my caller ID. ********* Black Boxes Help Consumers Zap Telemarketers Sat Oct 12,10:54 AM ET By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It's an evening ritual Americans love to hate: the phone call during dinner, bringing fabulous offers for credit cards, vinyl siding, vacation packages and other opportunities simply too good to turn down. Many consumers respond with a muttered curse, a polite 'No, thank you' or a legally correct request to never be called again. But as the calls continue to pour in, some consumers are bolstering their defenses with a wide variety of black boxes bearing names like the TeleZapper and the Phone Butler that allow them to screen out or easily terminate sales calls. Phone companies have stepped in with enhanced caller-ID services that keep telemarketers out as well. As a result, the humble home telephone has become the fulcrum of a high-tech skirmish as consumers seek to block sales calls while telemarketers try to figure out ways to get through. 'It's the battle of the technologies,' says Ken Chase, who sells a gaggle of anti-telemarketing gadgets at. For telemarketers, predictive-dialing software and plunging long-distance rates have made sales campaigns more productive and more affordable over the past decade. Telemarketers now place 104 million calls each day and take in $278 billion annually, according to government and industry figures. Consumers looking for peace at dinnertime have a variety of options other than handing off the phone to the toddler. Local phone companies like Verizon Communications offer enhanced caller-ID service, which intercepts any calls that show up as 'out of area,' 'unknown,' or other frequent telemarketer aliases. Callers are asked to recor
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