Getting the drop on telemarketers
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Telemarketers are just spammers with voices.
The Do Not Call list which is supposed to significantly limit their ability to bother you is about as useful as mammary glands on a bull.
“My residential home phone number was registered with the National Do Not Call List Operator on the date of launch,” said p2pnet reader DNCL Flawed, recently, going on »»»
Subsequently, thirty days after registering my phone number on the DNCL, the telemarketing calls have not ended and amount up to four calls on any given day.
Telemarketers have sought a loop hole to the DNCL by means of claiming to be a research company conducting surveys. These calls have become increasingly difficult to report to the DNCL Operator, as the DNCL Operator exempts Research Company calls as being telemarketing calls. In addition, consumers who do not subscribe to Bell Canada’s Call Display have no means of knowing the telephone number of the company calling to be able to register the company on the DNCL Operator’s website or by means of telephone. All requests made to Telemarketers / Research Company calls to have my name and number removed from their calling list, proves to no avail and results only in my receiving further unwarranted calls.
But, “people just don’t understand business and how it operates!” – says Freeman in a Reader’s Write, continuing »»»
The only way you’re going to get rid of them is if you start making it a binding verbal contract as you start conversation:
1 The line must be clear so conversation may be recorded, if it’s not tell them to call from good line or f-off [u may tell them call is being recorded too as is your right but u don't need to till end of call, if at all]
2 NEVER let them know your name unless they provide the following proof;
- full name [not just first and some internal ID]
- their FULL business address including postal code, their address of their workplace [these are different in many cases]
- where they are calling from [China, India, Pakistan, etc.] if not Canada hen tell them that they are being reported to CEO and charged with ‘Notice of Understanding and Intent’
- their CEO’s full contact info [if they refuse tell them you are charging them 1,000 per hour, damages and or for fraud]3 if they ask for specific person tell them YOU are the Administrator of this account [without telling them your name, as is your right] this means they deal with you or not at all [Administrator of an account has higher rights than any judge] You are the judge for your account, if they want to pursue this they must get into court with judge and jury
4 after you get their info, tell them to contact your by mail only and they are being charged for wasting your time at 1,000 per hour and or any time you spend dealing with their case. If they piss you off actually charge them, their head office/CEO and sponsoring company by snail mail.
5 If they try to sell stuff, cut them off and keep cutting them off till you get their info. At this point they are rude and dishonorable in front of any court and you can call them any names you wish
6 Call their bluff on anything illegal they are doing. Be forceful, it’s your phone and account, not theirs!
This works with collection agencies as well. The only option you give them is contacting you by registered mail or court order.I guarantee a dozen of these and your spam will drop by 90% if not fully.
It might take a month or 2 till they get it through their thick skulls. I, friends and many I know have done this and they receive [at most] one spam per month
Now copy and paste this and actually print it so you have it close to your phone as a guide.
Now you know. 
Did you enjoy this story, or find it interesting/useful? Help keep the posts coming by donating. No amount is too small. Cheers! And thanks.
DNCL Flawed – Do Not Call List: total waste of time, November 20, 2008
Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It’s really easy!
Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php
Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I live in the USA. For close to two decades I’ve paid good money (it’s risen to about $3+) to have my land line phone number “Totally Silent”, meaning that it is NOT listed in the phone book and can NOT be given out by “Information” (though I could have it fixed so that my name and number don’t show up on someone else’s CID I haven’t had the need for that due to the use of “* 67″ for anonymity on the rare occasions I feel that it’s necessary). Even with my number being “Silent”, I was getting quite a bit of ‘phone spam’ until I registered my number with BOTH my State and National DNCLs. After I registered my land line and cell phone with both registries I still got a handful of calls on the land line (the cell was new enough back then that that number hadn’t had time to ‘circulate’). On the few spam calls I got (after getting *their* info) I simply stated that, “I am registered with BOTH my State and the National DNCLs, that I AM GOING to REPORT YOU!!!!! DO _*NOT*_ CALL THIS NUMBER _*AGAIN*_!!!!!” I then simply hung up on them and immediately reported them to both registries. It didn’t take too many of those for the calls to stop. Now, if I do not recognize a number on my Caller ID I simply do not answer it. My L-L has no answering machine…hehehe.
Those few that I do want to hear from know that if they don’t get me on my L-L (I’m not home in that case and) to call my cell and [at least] leave a message so I can get back to them in the rare occasion that I still do not answer. They all know my feelings about spam in general including phone spam so they all understand and comply.
These three very SIMPLE, lawful solutions to the phone spam problem [here in the States] are what keep me down to …MAYBE…
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:06 pm
WELL!!! When did your system start giving a limit on how long a post could be? ?:|