Calls from Africa

Tim Me · Post by **Tim Me** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:59 am

Does this mean I am going to be getting calls from African banks asking me to send money to help release some fortune instead of emails?

maine-iac · Post by **maine-iac** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:15 pm

This is the Technical Support area of the forum. What's your Technical Support question?

Tim Me · Post by **Tim Me** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:49 pm

maine-iac wrote:This is the Technical Support area of the forum. What's your Technical Support question?

My technical support question is "Is it possible to prevent people from certain spamming locations from calling me, like a spam filter if you will, since calls to the US and Canada are now free from all parts of the world or am I now going to be subject to telephone soliciting in place of email spaming"?

Does magicJack have some funtionality which will allow us to report any soliciting or abuse and have those phone numbers or IP addresses blocked?

maine-iac · Post by **maine-iac** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:11 pm

MJ, as far as I know, does not have that capability you speak of but neither does any other VOIP service I know of. You could try registering your MJ number with the DoNotCall registry.

Tim Me · Post by **Tim Me** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:21 pm

maine-iac wrote:MJ, as far as I know, does not have that capability you speak of but neither does any other VOIP service I know of. You could try registering your MJ number with the DoNotCall registry.

Does that DoNotCall registry have any legal weight outside of the US or Canada?

And if the calls are coming from phones using the majicJack and magicJack network, wouldn't that violate the UEA?
Shouldn't there be a facility to prevent this from happening if it does begin to occur?

maine-iac · Post by **maine-iac** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:29 pm

Tim Me wrote:
maine-iac wrote:MJ, as far as I know, does not have that capability you speak of but neither does any other VOIP service I know of. You could try registering your MJ number with the DoNotCall registry.
Does that DoNotCall registry have any legal weight outside of the US or Canada? No.

And if the calls are coming from phones using the majicJack and magicJack network, wouldn't that violate the UEA?
Shouldn't there be a facility to prevent this from happening if it does begin to occur? For $20 a year? I doubt it.

kulumbaa · Post by **kulumbaa** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:11 am

i dont understand your concern.. did you received any calls from africa soliciting you or any calls outside usa/canada.

calls are only free from usa/canada as far as Mj is concern everywhere else they have to pay.

unless its an MJ to MJ then as long as that person has broadband and there area code is usa/canada they can call you in the usa for free from anywhere in the world.