"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers with
spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your credit card"
and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We are on the "do not call
registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have responded a couple times to give
them hell but didn't get a human to rant to. Is there some recourse to these
jerks?

Thanks,
Gary

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

"Abby" wrote in
m:

Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your
credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We
are on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have
responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to
rant to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary

Change your phone number is the best way to get rid of all phone pests.
Caller ID is your friend.

Did you know that the do not call registry automatically expires after (I
believe) 3 years? You'll have to reregister for do not call. Even then,
some pests, like the PBA, are perpetual and claim exemption.

I especially dislike the text messages on my cell phone for which /I/
have to pay.

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

"Han" wrote in message
...
"Abby" wrote in
m:

Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your
credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We
are on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have
responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to
rant to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary

Change your phone number is the best way to get rid of all phone pests.
Caller ID is your friend.

Did you know that the do not call registry automatically expires after (I
believe) 3 years? You'll have to reregister for do not call. Even then,
some pests, like the PBA, are perpetual and claim exemption.

I especially dislike the text messages on my cell phone for which /I/
have to pay.

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

Do Not Call lists no longer expire.
https://www.donotcall.gov/

"Your registration will not expire. Telephone numbers placed on the National
Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently due to the Do-Not-Call
Improvement Act of 2007, which became law in February 2008. Read more about
it at http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm."

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

"Abby" wrote in message
m...
Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers with
spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your credit
card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We are on the
"do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have responded a
couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to rant to. Is
there some recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary


I just hang up on them. Not worth the trouble to track them down.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

"h" wrote in message
...

"Abby" wrote in message
m...
Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your
credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We are
on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have
responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to rant
to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary


I just hang up on them. Not worth the trouble to track them down.

Unless you are bored at work. I had one guy on the phone for 20 minutes to
sell me a car warranty. Told him I had a '91 Regal with 160,000 miles that I
just paid $4900 for. I could hear him stifle a laugh, but he continued
anyway. They wanted $1400 for the warranty and I told him I though that was
a good deal.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:17:22 -0400, Abby wrote:

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your
credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We are
on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have
responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to
rant to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

You are one of millions who has been called by a hard core telemarket law
violator. They use fake caller ID, and ignore the do not call list.

Report them to your state's Attorney General and the Do Not Call violation
complaint site.

https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

AT&T is suing to find out who they really are and then stop them.

Links to news items about it:

http://consumerist.com/5165131/who-t...a-car-warranty

http://tinyurl.com/d5ssuq

http://consumerist.com/5147530/att-m...anty-robocalls

http://tinyurl.com/depbc9

--
Tony Sivori
Due to spam, I'm filtering all Google Groups posters.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

"Charlie" wrote in
:


"Han" wrote in message
...
"Abby" wrote in
m:

Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated
telemarketers with spiels starting with "This is an important
message regarding your credit card" and a similar one about my
expiring auto warranty. We are on the "do not call registry" so
these shouldn't happen. I have responded a couple times to give
them hell but didn't get a human to rant to. Is there some recourse
to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary

Change your phone number is the best way to get rid of all phone
pests. Caller ID is your friend.

Did you know that the do not call registry automatically expires
after (I believe) 3 years? You'll have to reregister for do not
call. Even then, some pests, like the PBA, are perpetual and claim
exemption.

I especially dislike the text messages on my cell phone for which /I/
have to pay.

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

Do Not Call lists no longer expire.
https://www.donotcall.gov/

"Your registration will not expire. Telephone numbers placed on the
National Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently due to the
Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007, which became law in February
2008. Read more about it at
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm."

That's good to know, Charlie, thanks!
Now how do I get callers like dave's carpet cleaning to honor the do not
call list?


--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/AutoWarranty/..."
 

On Mar 8, 11:53*am, "Ed Pawlowski" wrote:
"h" wrote in message

...





"Abby" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your
credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. *We are
on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. *I have
responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to rant
to. *Is there some recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary

I just hang up on them. Not worth the trouble to track them down.

Unless you are bored at work. I had one guy on the phone for 20 minutes to
sell me a car warranty. Told him I had a '91 Regal with 160,000 miles that I
just paid $4900 for. *I could hear him stifle a laugh, but he continued
anyway. *They wanted $1400 for the warranty and I told him I though that was
a good deal.

I got a call from ABC Warehouse a few days ago about extending the
warranty on my LCD TV that I bought from them a year ago. They wanted
$119 a month for 6 months to extend the warranty on a TV I paid $1100
for. I told her that was ridiculous and hung up.

One time I let a telemarketer go on and on and finally I told her that
I would need three pieces of valid ID from her before we could
continue. I told her we could start with her name and address and
drivers license number. After a long pause she goes "What?". By then I
was laughing too hard and just hung up.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

Tony Sivori wrote:
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:17:22 -0400, Abby wrote:

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding
your credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty.
We are on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I
have responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a
human to rant to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

You are one of millions who has been called by a hard core telemarket
law violator. They use fake caller ID, and ignore the do not call
list.

Report them to your state's Attorney General and the Do Not Call
violation complaint site.

https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

AT&T is suing to find out who they really are and then stop them.

Links to news items about it:

http://consumerist.com/5165131/who-t...a-car-warranty

http://tinyurl.com/d5ssuq

http://consumerist.com/5147530/att-m...anty-robocalls

http://tinyurl.com/depbc9

Glad to see the FTC is on the case, but I thought they ran out of coupons?

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/AutoWarranty/..."
 

On 03/08/09 12:27 pm Shy Picker wrote:

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your
credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We are
on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have
responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to rant
to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

I got a call from ABC Warehouse a few days ago about extending the
warranty on my LCD TV that I bought from them a year ago. They wanted
$119 a month for 6 months to extend the warranty on a TV I paid $1100
for. I told her that was ridiculous and hung up.

You already had a business relationship with ABC Warehouse (with whom I
have been advised not to do business anyway), so the Do Not Call list
does not apply to them.

Political parties and "charitable organizations" are also exempt.

Perce

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/AutoWarranty/..."
 

Tony Sivori wrote:
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:17:22 -0400, Abby wrote:

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your
credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We are
on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have
responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to
rant to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

You are one of millions who has been called by a hard core telemarket law
violator. They use fake caller ID, and ignore the do not call list.

Report them to your state's Attorney General and the Do Not Call violation
complaint site.

https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

AT&T is suing to find out who they really are and then stop them.

Links to news items about it:

http://consumerist.com/5165131/who-t...a-car-warranty

http://tinyurl.com/d5ssuq

http://consumerist.com/5147530/att-m...anty-robocalls

http://tinyurl.com/depbc9

Wife hit *69 on one and I redialed number from my cell which I never
keep on to receive and got an automated reply which said they were
removing my number from call list. Sent in complaint to state AG who
said they would forward to FCC. Personally I think it's ****ing in the
wind but wife wanted to do it.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/AutoWarranty/..."
 

Abby wrote:
Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your
credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We are
on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have
responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to
rant to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary

I get a ton of these calls and having a business line in the house, mine
are doubled.

I always hit number to speak to a live operator. It costs them time and
money.

If you ask where they are calling from or ream them out they always hang
up. So best, if you're up to it, is to string them out and let them
waste more time. Never feel sorry for these people as they are breaking
the law.

Most amusing call I had was from the expired auto warranty people. When
operator answered he asked make and model of car and I told him, "Since
you called me you must have the information." to which he hung up.

If I'm on the computer, here's a childish url I bring up for them to
listen to:

http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/AutoWarranty/..."
 

Abby wrote:
Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your
credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We are
on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have
responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to
rant to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary


Well there are laws about someone throwing a brick through your window
but it can happen. Sp obviously if some riff-raff does that you get
whomever enforces that law involved.

There is a form on the do not call web site to report such self
important riff-raff who feel laws don't apply to them:

https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

When the complaints pile in then there is reason to start action.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/AutoWarranty/..."
 

Han wrote:
"Charlie" wrote in
:

"Han" wrote in message
...
"Abby" wrote in
m:

Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated
telemarketers with spiels starting with "This is an important
message regarding your credit card" and a similar one about my
expiring auto warranty. We are on the "do not call registry" so
these shouldn't happen. I have responded a couple times to give
them hell but didn't get a human to rant to. Is there some recourse
to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary
Change your phone number is the best way to get rid of all phone
pests. Caller ID is your friend.

Did you know that the do not call registry automatically expires
after (I believe) 3 years? You'll have to reregister for do not
call. Even then, some pests, like the PBA, are perpetual and claim
exemption.

I especially dislike the text messages on my cell phone for which /I/
have to pay.

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
Do Not Call lists no longer expire.
https://www.donotcall.gov/

"Your registration will not expire. Telephone numbers placed on the
National Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently due to the
Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007, which became law in February
2008. Read more about it at
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm."

That's good to know, Charlie, thanks!
Now how do I get callers like dave's carpet cleaning to honor the do not
call list?


Not Charlie but if you have a business relationship with "Dave's carpet
cleaning" they have a right to call. However according to the do not
call regulation you have the right to request that they only call you
for non-marketing reasons. If they don't respect that you go he

https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

George wrote in
:

Do Not Call lists no longer expire.
https://www.donotcall.gov/

"Your registration will not expire. Telephone numbers placed on the
National Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently due to
the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007, which became law in
February 2008. Read more about it at
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm."

That's good to know, Charlie, thanks!
Now how do I get callers like dave's carpet cleaning to honor the do
not call list?


Not Charlie but if you have a business relationship with "Dave's
carpet cleaning" they have a right to call. However according to the
do not call regulation you have the right to request that they only
call you for non-marketing reasons. If they don't respect that you go
he

https://www.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

Thanks George!
I have no relationship with "Dave's carpet cleaning" whatsoever They are
nororious for violating the do not call list, and I have complained via
the obscure and involved complaint procedure. Eventually the calls
stopped, for whatever reason.

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

In article , Han wrote:

That's good to know, Charlie, thanks!
Now how do I get callers like dave's carpet cleaning to honor the do not
call list?

Google the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Act of 1991. The act
requires telemarketers to maintain their own do not call lists, to place a
consumer's phone number on such lists upon request, provide proof of having
done so -- and allows consumers to sue violators in civil court for the amount
of actual damages or $500 whichever is *greater*. I settled out of court with
GTE for $100 cash about ten years ago... :-)

Or you could move to Indiana. Our state do-not-call law is much more stringent
than the Federal law, and the Secretary of State's office is a real bulldog
about enforcing it. We used to get two or three telemarketing calls every
evening; since about a month after the state law went into effect, it's more
like two or three a *year*.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/AutoWarranty/..."
 

On Mar 8, 1:08*pm, "Percival P. Cassidy"
wrote:
On 03/08/09 12:27 pm Shy Picker wrote:

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your
credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. *We are
on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. *I have
responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to rant
to. *Is there some recourse to these jerks?
I got a call from ABC Warehouse a few days ago about extending the
warranty on my LCD TV that I bought from them a year ago. They wanted
$119 a month for 6 months to extend the warranty on a TV I paid $1100
for. I told her that was ridiculous and hung up.

You already had a business relationship with ABC Warehouse (with whom I
have been advised not to do business anyway), so the Do Not Call list
does not apply to them.

Political parties and "charitable organizations" are also exempt.

Perce

I realize that. I was just addressing the warranty thing.

David

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:46:45 -0500, HeyBub wrote:

Glad to see the FTC is on the case, but I thought they ran out of
coupons?

I assume you mean converter box coupons? If so, they got stimulus funds
and are shipping coupons again. As Fark says, "Our long national nightmare
is over. TV converter box coupons flowing again" :-)

--
Tony Sivori
Due to spam, I'm filtering all Google Groups posters.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:47:21 -0400, Frank wrote:

Sent in complaint to state AG who said they would forward to FCC.
Personally I think it's ****ing in the wind but wife wanted to do it.

For crimes of this type, the AG tends to act only when it gets enough
complaints. So every complaint helps.

--
Tony Sivori
Due to spam, I'm filtering all Google Groups posters.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

"Charlie" wrote

credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We

https://www.donotcall.gov/

Thanks for including the link Charlie! I'd been meaning to do that for our
3 cells, 2 of which get the spam voicemail over the car warrantee, sometimes
several times a day. I gather it won't help with that one, but may help
with some of the others.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

"Abby" wrote in message
m...
Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers with
spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your credit
card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We are on the
"do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have responded a
couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to rant to. Is
there some recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary

I love my TeleZapper!

Steve

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/AutoWarranty/..."
 

Tony Sivori wrote:
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:47:21 -0400, Frank wrote:

Sent in complaint to state AG who said they would forward to FCC.
Personally I think it's ****ing in the wind but wife wanted to do it.

For crimes of this type, the AG tends to act only when it gets enough
complaints. So every complaint helps.


It is an FCC, national law being broken and state AG's generally cannot
help although once I had a problem with AT&T and talked to magistrates
court about suing and was referred to AG who solved problem. I mentioned
elsewhere in thread where state AG sent my complaint to FCC. Things get
sticky enforcing national vs state laws and I also strongly suspect that
the latest telemarketers are operating from offshore where US law cannot
be enforced.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

"Han" wrote in message
...
"Charlie" wrote in
:


"Han" wrote in message
...
"Abby" wrote in
m:

Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated
telemarketers with spiels starting with "This is an important
message regarding your credit card" and a similar one about my
expiring auto warranty. We are on the "do not call registry" so
these shouldn't happen. I have responded a couple times to give
them hell but didn't get a human to rant to. Is there some recourse
to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary

Change your phone number is the best way to get rid of all phone
pests. Caller ID is your friend.

Did you know that the do not call registry automatically expires
after (I believe) 3 years? You'll have to reregister for do not
call. Even then, some pests, like the PBA, are perpetual and claim
exemption.

I especially dislike the text messages on my cell phone for which /I/
have to pay.

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

Do Not Call lists no longer expire.
https://www.donotcall.gov/

"Your registration will not expire. Telephone numbers placed on the
National Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently due to the
Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007, which became law in February
2008. Read more about it at
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm."

That's good to know, Charlie, thanks!
Now how do I get callers like dave's carpet cleaning to honor the do not
call list?


Go to the Direct Marketing Association.
https://www.dmachoice.org/dma/static/basics.jsp Unfortunately you have to
register to get your name taken off of various lists (phone, e-mail, s-mail,
etc) but it ---works---! In a few months you'll stop getting your
s-mailbox filled with catalogs, pitches, etc. that you don't want. Same for
telemarketers. But there's the catch - not all are members of the DMA and
therefore don't comply with the list. THey also use autodialers so even if
your phone number is unpublished and unlisted they will still get through to
you. The autodialer is programmed to call all numbers between xxx-xxxx and
xxx-yyyy.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

"SteveB" wrote in
:


"Abby" wrote in message
m...
Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding
your credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty.
We are on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I
have responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a
human to rant to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary

I love my TeleZapper!

Steve

Why should I have to spend $40 plus salestax to get rid of telemarketers?
I'd use one of those devices if the telemarketers paid for one.

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/AutoWarranty/..."
 

Charlie wrote:
"Han" wrote in message
...
"Abby" wrote in
m:

Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your
credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We
are on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have
responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to
rant to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary
Change your phone number is the best way to get rid of all phone pests.
Caller ID is your friend.

Did you know that the do not call registry automatically expires after (I
believe) 3 years? You'll have to reregister for do not call. Even then,
some pests, like the PBA, are perpetual and claim exemption.

I especially dislike the text messages on my cell phone for which /I/
have to pay.

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

Do Not Call lists no longer expire.
https://www.donotcall.gov/

"Your registration will not expire. Telephone numbers placed on the National
Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently due to the Do-Not-Call
Improvement Act of 2007, which became law in February 2008. Read more about
it at http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm."




DNC list is irrelevant. They Don't Care, and nobody enforces it. AG in
MI did a press release a couple days ago labeling these people as
suspected identity thieves. Maybe that will get them to quit calling
around here. I usually find them on my machine, but have managed to
actually answer a few, and punch the button for a human, and give them
hell. They refuse to give a company name and address, of course. They
usually just hang up on me.


--
aem sends...

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/AutoWarranty/..."
 

Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 03/08/09 12:27 pm Shy Picker wrote:

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your
credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We
are
on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have
responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human
to rant
to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

I got a call from ABC Warehouse a few days ago about extending the
warranty on my LCD TV that I bought from them a year ago. They wanted
$119 a month for 6 months to extend the warranty on a TV I paid $1100
for. I told her that was ridiculous and hung up.

You already had a business relationship with ABC Warehouse (with whom I
have been advised not to do business anyway), so the Do Not Call list
does not apply to them.

The business relationship provision notes that you can ask them to put
you on their internal do not call list so that they can only call you
for non sales/marketing calls.



Political parties and "charitable organizations" are also exempt.

Perce

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:17:22 -0400, "Abby"
wrote:

Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers with
spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your credit card"
and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We are on the "do not call
registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have responded a couple times to give
them hell but didn't get a human to rant to. Is there some recourse to these
jerks?

Thanks,
Gary

Using the answering machine I was screening all my calls during last
Presidential election. I got 5-15 political calls each day,
eventually leaving the phone unplugged for 3 weeks. I'm on the "Do
Not Call List" (since April 2008) but it is exempt from political
campaigning. I guess I do not always have a right to a working phone
in peace.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

Tony Sivori wrote:
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:17:22 -0400, Abby wrote:

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated
telemarketers with spiels starting with "This is an important
message regarding your credit card" and a similar one about my
expiring auto warranty. We are on the "do not call registry" so
these shouldn't happen. I have responded a couple times to give
them hell but didn't get a human to rant to. Is there some
recourse to these jerks?

You are one of millions who has been called by a hard core telemarket
law violator. They use fake caller ID, and ignore the do not call
list.

Report them to your state's Attorney General and the Do Not Call
violation complaint site.

Here in Canada the telemarketers are downloading the "do not call" phone
number list and selling it to off-shore telemarketers who are not bothered
by the law and use it as a proven list of people who have valid phone
numbers. You can't win, they get you no matter what.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

Excellent!

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"Shy Picker" wrote in message
...

One time I let a telemarketer go on and on and finally I
told her that
I would need three pieces of valid ID from her before we
could
continue. I told her we could start with her name and
address and
drivers license number. After a long pause she goes "What?".
By then I
was laughing too hard and just hung up.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

On 08 Mar 2009, aemeijers wrote in
alt.home.repair:

DNC list is irrelevant. They Don't Care, and nobody enforces it.
AG in MI did a press release a couple days ago labeling these
people as suspected identity thieves. Maybe that will get them to
quit calling around here. I usually find them on my machine, but
have managed to actually answer a few, and punch the button for a
human, and give them hell. They refuse to give a company name and
address, of course. They usually just hang up on me.

Me, too. I think they are under strict time deadlines - if you ask too
many questions or start taking up too much of their time they hang up
on you and go on to the next call.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/AutoWarranty/..."
 

SteveB wrote:
"Abby" wrote in message
m...
Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers with
spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your credit
card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We are on the
"do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have responded a
couple times to give them hell but didn't get a human to rant to. Is
there some recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary

I love my TeleZapper!

Steve



If you have an answering machine, you don't need
a TeleZapper. I have one or two by the way. What
you do is call a disconnected number and record
the whole announcement which usually repeats 2
times and at the end of each has the three SIT
tones "Special Information Tones". You use this
as your answering machine message, but you have
to let friends and family know about it. When
an autodialer detects the tones, it marks it as
a bad number in it's database and does not call
it again. This message also confuses the hell
out of the phone company. "We're sorry, you have
reached a number that has been disconnected or
is no longer in service........" Watch all those
tool free numbers dwindle on your caller ID unit.

TDD

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

In article , "Abby"
wrote:

Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers with
spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding your credit card"
and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty. We are on the "do not call
registry" so these shouldn't happen. I have responded a couple times to give
them hell but didn't get a human to rant to. Is there some recourse to these
jerks?


If I'm on the computer or something else that's easy to multi task, I take
the call. I act interested for about 30 seconds, then add a worried
sounding "Oh!, can you hold on for a sec?. . .", then put the phone down.
They will stay on for 30 sec or a minute, thus preventing them from
bothering others during that time.

Oh, I also ask them to send me stuff in the mail, but don't give them my
address. Presumably they have it already. I explain what with fraud and
all, not that they are, but I don't give out personal info on the phone,
but if they'd like to mail me the info, I'll take a look at it.

--
charles

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:54:21 -0400, in alt.home.repair, Phisherman
wrote:

Using the answering machine I was screening all my calls during last
Presidential election. I got 5-15 political calls each day,
eventually leaving the phone unplugged for 3 weeks. I'm on the "Do
Not Call List" (since April 2008) but it is exempt from political
campaigning. I guess I do not always have a right to a working phone
in peace.

I'm beginning to wonder if I couldn't get one of those 900 numbers, where
the caller pays $$$ per minute for the privilege of talking to me. I'd have
to have a way to quickly make refunds to anyone I actually wanted to hear
from, but aside from that I'd listen to a telemarketer's pitch script all
day long, at $3.95/minute that is.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

"Han" wrote in message
...
"SteveB" wrote in
:


"Abby" wrote in message
m...
Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding
your credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty.
We are on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I
have responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a
human to rant to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary

I love my TeleZapper!

Steve

Why should I have to spend $40 plus salestax to get rid of telemarketers?
I'd use one of those devices if the telemarketers paid for one.

--
Best regards
Han

I'm sorry. Please show me where I said you needed to buy one. I merely
stated I loved mine. Bone up on your reading comprehension, man.

Steve

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/AutoWarranty/..."
 

SteveB wrote:
"Han" wrote in message
...
"SteveB" wrote in
:

"Abby" wrote in message
m...
Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated telemarketers
with spiels starting with "This is an important message regarding
your credit card" and a similar one about my expiring auto warranty.
We are on the "do not call registry" so these shouldn't happen. I
have responded a couple times to give them hell but didn't get a
human to rant to. Is there some recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary
I love my TeleZapper!

Steve

Why should I have to spend $40 plus salestax to get rid of telemarketers?
I'd use one of those devices if the telemarketers paid for one.

--
Best regards
Han

I'm sorry. Please show me where I said you needed to buy one. I merely
stated I loved mine. Bone up on your reading comprehension, man.

Steve



This was discussed repeatedly on Usenet when the TeleZappers came out-
many of the local telcos took a very dim view of them, because if anyone
got the fake warning and reported it as an outage, it was extra work for
phone company, not to mention they would sometimes lock your line out,
thinking there was an actual problem. Note that many of the robot call
machines quickly were reprogrammed to ignore the three tones.

Simpler just to screen calls with an answering machine, or (if you don't
mind enriching ma bell) pay for caller ID. I refuse to pay extra for
something the switch does anyway, just to feed a profit center, but that
is just me. (Same thing as when they brought touch-tone on line way back
when, and that exchange already had an electronic switch.)

--
aem sends...

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:34:17 -0400, Frank wrote:

Tony Sivori wrote:
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:47:21 -0400, Frank wrote:

Sent in complaint to state AG who said they would forward to FCC.
Personally I think it's ****ing in the wind but wife wanted to do it.

For crimes of this type, the AG tends to act only when it gets enough
complaints. So every complaint helps.


It is an FCC, national law being broken and state AG's generally cannot
help although once I had a problem with AT&T and talked to magistrates
court about suing and was referred to AG who solved problem. I mentioned
elsewhere in thread where state AG sent my complaint to FCC.

My mistake, I assumed most or all states had their own telemarketing laws
and Do Not Call lists. My state (KY) does.

Things get sticky enforcing national vs state laws and I also strongly
suspect that the latest telemarketers are operating from offshore where
US law cannot be enforced.

Why do you suspect that?

--
Tony Sivori
Due to spam, I'm filtering all Google Groups posters.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:57:30 -0400, EXT wrote:

Here in Canada the telemarketers are downloading the "do not call" phone
number list and selling it to off-shore telemarketers who are not
bothered by the law and use it as a proven list of people who have valid
phone numbers. You can't win, they get you no matter what.

They don't get me. I'm on the Do Not Call list (U.S. version) and I get
almost no calls at all. A very tiny fraction of what it used to be. I have
to wonder if the "use the no call list as a do call list" is an often
repeated rumor designed to keep people from putting their phone number on
the list.

--
Tony Sivori
Due to spam, I'm filtering all Google Groups posters.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

Here in Canada the telemarketers are downloading the "do not call"
phone number list and selling it to off-shore telemarketers who
are not bothered by the law and use it as a proven list of people
who have valid phone numbers. You can't win, they get you no
matter what.

You can still win. You just automatically tell every telemarketeer to
**** off, with as much elaboration as you feel like adding.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

In article , Phisherman wrote:

Using the answering machine I was screening all my calls during last
Presidential election. I got 5-15 political calls each day,
eventually leaving the phone unplugged for 3 weeks. I'm on the "Do
Not Call List" (since April 2008) but it is exempt from political
campaigning. I guess I do not always have a right to a working phone
in peace.

Move to Indiana.

We have a *very* strict do-not-call at the state level, and it is enforced
vigorously -- and it prohibits political robo-calls.

"This Is An Important Message Regarding Your Credit Card/Auto Warranty/..."
 

"SteveB" wrote in
:


"Han" wrote in message
...
"SteveB" wrote in
:


"Abby" wrote in message
m...
Hi,

For the past few months I have been bugged by automated
telemarketers with spiels starting with "This is an important
message regarding your credit card" and a similar one about my
expiring auto warranty. We are on the "do not call registry" so
these shouldn't happen. I have responded a couple times to give
them hell but didn't get a human to rant to. Is there some
recourse to these jerks?

Thanks,
Gary

I love my TeleZapper!

Steve

Why should I have to spend $40 plus salestax to get rid of
telemarketers? I'd use one of those devices if the telemarketers paid
for one.

--
Best regards
Han

I'm sorry. Please show me where I said you needed to buy one. I
merely stated I loved mine. Bone up on your reading comprehension,
man.

Steve

Sorry if I ticked you off, Steve. I apologize. My question was more or
less rhetorical. I believe that I should not have to buy a $40 gadget to
prevent telemarketers from calling me, since they are intruding on my
privacy. I can fully understand you like the telezapper for your use,
and you are most welcome to it. This is still a mostly free society, and
people are free to market and buy anything they want. Again, I apologize
if I said my thing wrongly.

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid