Screen Unknown Calls - AT&T CL83210 Abridged User Manual

Smart call blocker

Screen unknown calls

telephone plays a screening announcement to the caller when receiving the
following incoming calls. It asks the caller to respond before putting the call
through to you.
Incoming calls with numbers that are "out of area" or with numbers set to
"Private";
Incoming calls with absent caller ID numbers;
Incoming calls with numbers that are not in your directory, allow list, nor
block list; or
Incoming calls with names that are not in your star name list.
When screening a call, the telephone announces to the caller, "Hello. Calls to this
announces to the caller "
telephone starts ringing and announces the caller's name. The telephone screen
displays Screened call and you can pick up the call. The telephone will then
ask whether you want to answer or reject the call, or to forward the call to the
answering system.
Notes:
You can set Smart call blocker to screen and filter all unknown calls. You can easily add incoming phone numbers to your
allow list and block list. This allows you to build up your lists of allowed and blocked numbers, and Smart call blocker will know
how to deal with these calls when they come in again.
The telephone announces to the caller with "Hello. Calls to this number are being screened by Smart call blocker..." If you have
recorded your name in the screening announcements, your recorded name will replace "this number" in the announcements.
See Screening announcement on page 63.
If the caller hangs up before the call is screened, or without leaving his/her name while the call is being screened, the call will
be logged as missed call in the caller ID log.
While a call is being screened, you can press
After the telephone screened a call, and is ringing and announcing the caller's name, you can press OFF/
the ringer, or press CALL BLOCK to reject the call directly.
After you picked up a screened call and the telephone is announcing the screening options, you can press OFF/
hang up the call.
or /SPEAKER to stop screening and answer the call.
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