Chris Papastefanou

Voice, acting and stuff

Never answer the same telemarketer twice

October 21, 2011

A drop dead simple lifehack for never answering a telemarketer twice, which I’ve been using for years.

Create a contact named Telemarketer in your phone.
Get a call from a telemarketer, and you more ore less politely tell him or her that you are not interested in buying anything.
Every time a new telemarketer calls you, you add their number to that contact.

So if a telemarketer calls from the same number again, it shows up at Telemarketer and you simply don’t answer.

If you like, you may also set a custom ringtone for that contact.

Simple and works on most phones.

The icon of the nasty green telemarketer is by Michael Gullbrandson and is used by permission.

Peter Eliasson

October 4, 2012

I found, after a few weeks, that a custom ring tone is a must. There are so many situations when you actually don’t pick up your phone and look at the screen when you answer (listening to music/podcasts commuting to and from work, for example) that yoa accidentaly take the call!