Finally—My Phone Will No Longer Ring

Maybe our newly elected officials can close the loopholes in the National Do Not Call Registry

Wed, 11/07/2012 - 10:34

Well, it’s finally happened. The late-night unsolicited phone calls, the lawn signs, the brochures that clogged our mailboxes, and the interminable television and radio commercials have come to an end. Whether you are mourning or celebrating your voting choices last week, one thing is clear: We will all be in a “robo call-free zone” at least for the next year or so.

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Despite your political leanings, I think this is something all of us can support.

I suspect that a lot of us have subscribed to the National Do Not Call Registry, which is supposed to curtail any unwanted calls to our home phones and cell phones. Of course the politicians who constructed this edict, not surprisingly, allowed some caveats to the law, mainly that political calls and charitable calls are excluded from the registry.

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Bill,

Even though it was futile, I used some unprintable expletives back at the recordings.

As for polls, I never give them correct information.

We have only given once over the phone when the local fire department was fund raising, and we knew the person calling.

Thanks,

Mike

Rachel from Cardholder Services, and Security Home Promotions, both violate Do Not Call regularly. They call from spoofed phone numbers to prevent Do Not Call violation complaints.

I just strung Security Home Promotions along to the extent that they gave my number to Alliance Home Protection, as I learned from when AHP's representative called me. That means I now have somebody who can identify the entity that is placing the illegal robocalls.

I have seen on the Internet that a lot of people pretend they are interested in "Rachel's" credit interest reduction services and, when asked for their credit card number, tell the telemarketer they have to "go find it"--and then let the telemarketer hold for as long as he/she can be strung along. The FTC is meanwhile offering a $50,000 reward for a solution to shut these parasites down for good. http://robocall.challenge.gov/

Submitted by jwjackson on Mon, 11/12/2012 - 11:43

Well, Bill, when you wrote this article you must have been watching me. At our house, too, we never donate over the phone, never listen to an entire political call, and do not respond to pollsters. Although I probably would respond to some surveys if I thought anything meaningful was going to be done with the answers I'd give.

Let me add one more. How many of those extremely annoying website pop-ups asking you to 'complete a brief survey' do you respond to? I can only wonder what kind of data those companies get from people who have the time to deal with that stuff, or whether they even bother to analyze it.

I'm Jeff, and I approved this message.

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