Unwanted Phone Calls

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The one class action notice I got against an alleged violation of the DoNotCall registry offered class members $25.- each, to be paid after litigation & fines were awarded, and after the lawyers collected their 99%.

I threw it in the trash, hoping the class-action lawyers got nothing, if no one registered.
 
I have this recurring daydream that I receive a robocall and press a button on my phone that sends a series of tones back to the calling computer. The robo-computer upon hearing this secret signal, instantly explodes in a huge fireball that takes out the facility and all the telemarketer therein. I then offer an apology to the collaterally damaged folks on the adjoining floors assuming they are not lawyers or car salespersons.
 
Coppersmith said:
I have this recurring daydream that I receive a robocall and press a button on my phone that sends a series of tones back to the calling computer. The robo-computer upon hearing this secret signal, instantly explodes in a huge fireball that takes out the facility and all the telemarketer therein. I then offer an apology to the collaterally damaged folks on the adjoining floors assuming they are not lawyers or car salespersons.
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depending on my mood at the time, i sometimes torment them...

answer the phone, leave it laying on the table and ask them for information.
my cellphone has one bar in this part of the house, and breaks up pretty badly....
it'll sometimes take them a few minutes before they give up.

most of these folks are offshore. the ones i get from "US Pharmacy" or "Canadian Pharma"
sound like fresh off the boat from somewhere in asia, so most likely they
are somewhere in asia. i'll ask them for pricing, and then haggle with them.
say i can get oxy for a third less, and see if they will price match. then hang up.

internet telephony isn't always a good thing. skype isn't always your friend.

a bright note however....

http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/8...-Carolina-man-in-robocall-case-438536503.html
 
ramsy said:
The one class action notice I got against an alleged violation of the DoNotCall registry offered class members $25.- each, to be paid after litigation & fines were awarded, and after the lawyers collected their 99%.

I threw it in the trash, hoping the class-action lawyers got nothing, if no one registered.
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A big law firm that constantly advertises on TV here says in a commercial they can get you $1500 for every call violation you get on your cell phone. If that turns out to be true, I'm buying more cellphones. :)
 
Seems like 95% of the spam calls I get are either "update your google listing" or some "prequalified loan" BS. Its weird, I go days with no calls, then sometimes Ill get like a burst of 4-5 in a day. A few months ago I was getting calls from my local exchange, but that has stopped for now fortunately, so I just ignore the calls from Intercourse PA or whatever.

I am on the DNC list. Sometimes I play along and try to trick them into giving me their details so I can report them. Ill act really interested and friendly and say something like, "can I just get your company name, I like to know who I am doing business with" or " let me just get your info first in case we get disconnected. The few times that it has worked, I never got the motivation to actually file the DNC complaint.
 
maleka said:
Register your phone number at www.donotcall.gov and you won't get any calls. I never had a call since I registered my numbers.
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I've registered and re-registered several times. It's a bunch of crap. These are computer generated calls and these telemarketers claim the calls are "randomly" selected. If each telemarketer used a pre-determined list to call from maybe the "do-not-call" service might work.
 
Fulthrotl said:
depending on my mood at the time, i sometimes torment them...
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I do that too. The best one was someone trying to get me to let them take over my computer. I played along acting dumb and confused (not too hard of an act, :) ), got move up to a supervisor who after a few more minutes called me some vulgar names, insulted my mother, and got very angry, then finally hung up. I was pleased. :)
 
electrofelon said:
Seems like 95% of the spam calls I get are either "update your google listing" or some "prequalified loan" BS. Its weird, I go days with no calls, then sometimes Ill get like a burst of 4-5 in a day. A few months ago I was getting calls from my local exchange, but that has stopped for now fortunately, so I just ignore the calls from Intercourse PA or whatever.

I am on the DNC list. Sometimes I play along and try to trick them into giving me their details so I can report them. Ill act really interested and friendly and say something like, "can I just get your company name, I like to know who I am doing business with" or " let me just get your info first in case we get disconnected. The few times that it has worked, I never got the motivation to actually file the DNC complaint.
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Numbers that show up on your caller ID as local numbers are likely spoofed caller id's or even a more recent practice by scammers is to start a conference call where the other local number is a valid number to trick you to answering but the call was initiated to both you and the other local number by the scammer - they receive a call with your number on their caller ID. If scammer is lucky one of the two will actually answer the call and stay on the line long enough to try to sell them whatever scam they are offering, if not they just move on to next numbers their auto dialing system presents to them.

I get a few occasionally with my local prefix number, look them up and they are actual local phone customers though I haven't called any to asks if they got a scam call with my number on the caller ID.

I get a ton of these scam calls with my local area code in the caller ID number though. Anymore I don't answer most calls I don't have in contacts on my cell phone, or any that are suspicious on my office land line. I also think enough people understand the situation as they experience it themselves anymore that they will leave messages to prove they are a legitimate call.
 
Telemarketers can buy the phone lists that are scrubbed against the do not call list.
Or have their numbers scrubbed by a service.
That is an extra price most don't want to pay.

With the VOIP (internet phones) you could be on the other side of the world and not pay for a long distance call.
Back in the day the long distance or international call costs would stop or reduce this.

It's gotten bad here where the caller will use a fake local phone number to show up on the ID.
They could be anywhere in the world, you don't know.
It's a local number, so you answer and you hear a busy phone room.
Call the number back and it's some unsuspecting local person that knows nothing about it.
Herd it's illegal in this state to misrepresent the caller ID.
But you don't even know who called you.
Except from what the say like "I'm calling from Visa Mastercard American Express customer services about your account".
As if they all merged into 1 company yesterday.
 
active1 said:
Telemarketers can buy the phone lists that are scrubbed against the do not call list.
Or have their numbers scrubbed by a service.
That is an extra price most don't want to pay.

With the VOIP (internet phones) you could be on the other side of the world and not pay for a long distance call.
Back in the day the long distance or international call costs would stop or reduce this.

It's gotten bad here where the caller will use a fake local phone number to show up on the ID.
They could be anywhere in the world, you don't know.
It's a local number, so you answer and you hear a busy phone room.
Call the number back and it's some unsuspecting local person that knows nothing about it.
Herd it's illegal in this state to misrepresent the caller ID.
But you don't even know who called you.
Except from what the say like "I'm calling from Visa Mastercard American Express customer services about your account".
As if they all merged into 1 company yesterday.
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There are legal ways to spoof a number, otherwise it is illegal to spoof a caller ID number. One example where it is legal is to call from your mobile phone but send out your office number as the number that shows up in the recipients caller ID. Making that legal opened up the door for spammers to use that ability to spoof a caller ID. Then on top of that originating the calls from another country makes it hard to do much about it from a legal perspective should you want to try to do something about getting these calls.
 
kwired said:
There are legal ways to spoof a number, otherwise it is illegal to spoof a caller ID number. One example where it is legal is to call from your mobile phone but send out your office number as the number that shows up in the recipients caller ID. Making that legal opened up the door for spammers to use that ability to spoof a caller ID. Then on top of that originating the calls from another country makes it hard to do much about it from a legal perspective should you want to try to do something about getting these calls.
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most all of this stuff is offshore. agents are in the US oftentimes,
but log into a net portal somewhere else, and that is where the
dialing for dorks is done from.

i've never gotten this stuff at night, thank god. they at least have
time called mapped for maximum answers.

VOIP is proving to be the third horseman of the apocalypse it seems.

and now, it's almost always that it picks a number near you to spoof.
i've gotten three people now who've called me up to tell me to quit
telemarketing them.

and the cute girl with the "oops, pardon me while i fix my headset....
can you hear me now?"

i've probably gotten that stage recording fifty times. it's stopped the
last few months. they overdid it, and people just hung up when they
heard the first syllables.

time to change the shill.
 
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