Shutting Down Annoying Recruiters?

An anonymous reader writes "My company is under attack by the leeches and bottom-feeders of the IT recruiting world. They call into our company phone directory constantly — hundreds of calls per day — trolling for names, hawking their job candidates, and refusing to hang up or stop calling, even if we curse their mothers. Our attorney says the calls are perfectly legal: there is no 'do not call' list for US corporations, and it's not harassment. Through education, we've gotten our engineering group to stop answering the calls or hang up, but I was wondering if the Slashdot community has any ideas for more creative solutions to make this stop, either through technology, US law, trickery, etc."

Comments

Technological solution.

[Lord Apathy]

I had a problem like this once. My ex-Bitch and her boyfriend used my name on a whole shitload of stuff a few years back. I was getting calls from creditors and other scum all the fucking time. I walked in one day and there was a 56 call on my answering machine from the fuckers. Straw, meet camel.

A few minutes of research and I came up with some free call management software, fifteen minutes after that I had my computer screening my calls. Basically what I did was run the phone line to the caller id modem on my box. The call screening software would compare the incoming number against a white/black list. White list and the computer would ring, I turned the ringer off on the phone. Black list and the computer would just simply drop the call. Not on ether and the computer would not ring but let the call through for the answering machine to pick up.

I rigged this thing up in 15 mins. If I can do it that time a retarded monkey should be able to in half that. I used it for a number of years till I just had the phone disconnected. I don't have any links for you but a google search should find you everthing you need.