Does the following landline phone exist?

["Andy" <andywhitfield2002@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does the following landline phone exist?

I get 5+ cold calls per week day.  Plus now they are ringing me Saturday
and Sunday!
I'm registered with the telephone preference service.  And have been for
years.  But doesn't stop the buggers!

So I'm looking for a landline phone that can do the following.......

For INCOMING calls....
1) If the incoming call has a caller ID and it is in the phone's 'address
book' then the phone rings as normal.  I can either pick up or let it go to
answer phone.

2) If the caller ID isn't in the 'address book' or is blank (as with most
cold calling) then the phone SILENTLY answers the call and plays a
pre-recorded message along the lines of "Your number has not been
recognised.  Please enter your 4 digit PIN".
For friends and relatives who are ex directory, I would give them
individual PINs (probably last 4 digits of their phone number).  The PINs
would be in the phone's 'address book'.  So when they enter their PIN, the
phone would then ring as normal.

3) Where the caller doesn't have a PIN then a message would play giving the
caller an alternative method of contact.  E.G. a throw away email address.
Or perhaps ask the caller to enter a default PIN and go straight to answer
phone.  Cold callers tend to hang straight up and not leave messages.

The idea is cold callers get answered silently (no rings, beeps clicks,
etc) and I don't get interrupted by them.  Only genuine callers will get
through.  And if a genuine caller doesn't have a PIN or isn't programmed in
the phone's address book' then they can either contact me by email (which I
get within 5 minutes on my mobile phone) or perhaps enter a default PIN and
leave a message on the answer phone (depending on how I've set up the
phone).

Ideally the phone should have a USB port so I can set up the 'address book'
etc via my laptop.  Plus look at the logs of missed calls (which hopefully
will be all cold callers!).

I think BT do a phone that only rings if the caller ID is in the phone's
'address book' but it doesn't do the second bit of allowing ex directory
callers to enter a PIN.
So I hope someone knows of a phone that can do all 3 points above?

Regards
Andy




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