Over on the Vonage Forum, there’s a thread from a Member named armresi who has been receiving a series of death-threat phone calls over his Vonage line.
Unfortunately, caller I.D. for all these calls reads “Anonymous.”
As a preventative measure, a fellow Vonage Forum Member named riddler recommends Caller ID Manager, a VoIP-compatible, $99.97 program from a company called Privacy Corps.
I’m just back from the Privacy Corps website where I learned that Caller ID Manager can:
- Block anonymous and unidentified numbers, while allowing all others
- Block up to 175 numbers, area codes or prefixes
- Allow only callers you ‘Invite’ by name, number, or ‘Wildcard’ to ring your phone, and block others as you choose
You can also configure specific controls for individual numbers.
If I ever got threatened, I’d contact the police first. Then I’d consider a program such as Caller ID Manager.