TrueCall: Stay Safe!

Source: http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/34813 (YAHOO! tech)

Former telemarketers Steve Smith and John Price have created TrueCall. TrueCall is a device that can block callers who try to steal your financial information, perhaps those who commit fraud. When you receive a call TrueCall decides whether it is a good call or a bad call. If it decides that a caller is a bad call they put it on hold and the machine asks them for their name and the call is then forwarded to the user's phone. Once the call is forwarded to the user's phone they are given the option to either take or reject the call. You can add numbers of those who you know to your "Star" list and TrueCall will not scan this call. Instead it rings normally just as it would with your phone without TrueCall would. Numbers on your "zap" list will not go through at all. TrueCall simply blocks these calls. As for now, TrueCall is only available in the United Kingdom. But soon enough TrueCall will be available in the United States!
I feel that TrueCall is a great way to save those who are unaware of fraud from giving out their personal and financial information. However, I am unsure of whether or not it would block a good number accidentally and have you miss an important call. Nevertheless, this is what the "Star" list is what this is for.

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SOURCE: YAHOO! tech
link: http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/patterson/16687