Go straight to voicemail

Have you ever had to make a phone call, but did not feel like speaking with the person that you are calling? Normally this would require that you know the telephone carrier that the person that you are calling, and finding out the pilot number for the voice mail system of their carrier. For some carriers they reserve the number NPA-NXX-MAIL as the voice mail access number, but that is not always the case, and in fact some carriers might assign numbers ending in MAIL to subscribers.

So you ask - how can you go straight to voice mail when you need to get in touch with someone but do not want to risk them answering the phone. The answer is simple, use SLY DIAL

By simply dialing 267-SLY-DIAL you can be directed directly to someones voice mail after listening to a short advertisement. This service is free, and pretty cool. Unfortunately it only appears to work with cell phone numbers - I have attempted to go straight to voice mail when calling a Magic Jack number, and someone answered.

The other downside is that you can not block your caller ID when calling into SLY DIAL. So if you do not want them to know who the call is coming from, then you are going to have to spoof your CID before calling into SLY DIAL.

To learn how to spoof your CID just click HERE