Screen Uncategorized Calls - AT&T CL84107 User Manual

Smart call blocker

Screen uncategorized calls

Notes:
Screening and asking for caller name is the default setting for uncategorized calls. To change the setting, see Control
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uncategorized calls on page 81.
In default screening mode, Smart call blocker screens and filters all incoming calls from numbers or names that are not
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yet saved in your directory, allow list, block list, or star name list. 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
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you have recorded your name in the screening announcements, your recorded name will replace "this number" in the
announcements. See Screening announcements on page 91.
If the caller hangs up before the call is screened, or without leaving his/her name while the call is being screened, the call
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will be logged as missed call in the caller ID log.
While a call is being screened, you can press
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call.
After the telephone screened a call, and is announcing the caller's name to you, you can press
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silence the ringer, or press CALL BLOCK to reject the call directly. The caller's number will be added to the block list.
After you picked up a screened call and the telephone is announcing the screening options to you, you can press
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/CANCEL
to hang up the call. The caller's number will not be added to the block list.
OFF
If the Smart call blocker feature is on and in screening mode, and you receive a call waiting call:
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- If you have already picked up a screened call, the telephone checks whether the call waiting call's number can be
found in the directory, block list or allow list. It also checks whether the caller name is in the star name list. After
that, the telephone displays the caller ID information or Blocked call accordingly. You can press
- If the telephone is screening a call, the call waiting call will be ignored and logged as missed call in the caller ID
log.
Robocalls are unable to respond to the screening announcement, and therefore, will not get through and ring. If you want
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to allow some robocalls to get through, save their names in the star name list. See page 88.
The telephone can respond to remote access code while it is playing the screening announcement. This allows you to
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access your answering system from an unknown number remotely. See Remote access on page 122.
Allow call once
Using a cordless handset or the telephone base:
1. When the telephone starts ringing, and the screen displays
Screened call, press
pick up the call. If you have turned on the caller ID announce
feature, the telephone announces "You have a call from..."
and the caller's name. After you picked up the call, the
telephone announces "To answer the call, press 1. To answer
and always allow this number, press 2. To block this number,
press 3. To send this call to the answering system, press 4. To
repeat these options, press *".
2. Press 1 to answer the call. The telephone number will not
be added to your allow list.
Notes:
To turn on or off caller ID announce, see page 22 or 33.
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When the telephone is ringing, you can press
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or /SPEAKER to take the new call.
or /SPEAKER to stop screening and answer the
/SPEAKER to
or
/CANCEL to mute the ringer temporarily.
OFF
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/CANCEL to
OFF
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