Screen Unknown Home Calls - AT&T DL72119 Quick Start Manual

Smart call blocker

Screen unknown home calls

If Smart call blocker is on, and you have set profile to screen unknown home
calls, the telephone plays a screening announcement to the caller when
receiving the following incoming home calls. It asks the caller to respond before
putting the call through to you.
Incoming home calls with numbers that are "out of area" or with numbers set
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to "Private";
Incoming home calls with absent caller ID numbers;
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Incoming home calls with numbers that are not in your directory, allow list,
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nor block list; or
Incoming home calls with names that are not in your star name list.
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Screen calls and ask for caller names
When screening a home call, the telephone announces to the caller, "Hello. Calls to
this number are being screened by Smart call blocker. Please say your name after
the tone, then press pound." After the caller completes the request, the telephone
announces to the caller "Please wait a moment while your call is connected.".
The telephone starts ringing and the handset screen displays Screened call.
After you pick up the call, the telephone announces the caller's name, and then
asks 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 home calls. You can easily add incoming phone
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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 announcement on page 62.
The screening feature of Smart call blocker is applicable to home calls only.
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If the caller hangs up before the home call is screened, or without leaving his/her name while the call is being
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screened, the call will be logged as missed call in the caller ID log.
While a home call is being screened, you can press
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answer the call.
After the telephone screened a home call, and is ringing and announcing the caller's name, you can press
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OFF/CANCEL to mute the ringer, or press
After you picked up a screened home call and the telephone is announcing the screening options, you can press
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OFF/CANCEL to hang up the call.
or
CALL BLOCK to reject the call directly.
VOICE/
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/SPEAKER to stop screening and