- Telemarketing - 3 Updates
- Telemarketing - 1 Update
| KenK <invalid@invalid.com>: May 12 05:44PM I've been getting calls, which hang up on my answering machine message, for years now from the same source. You'd think they'd take a hint by now. Evidently these calls come from a country (602 area code IIRC) where phone calls are sold wholesale. There's a couple of other numbers that keep calling as well. Maybe they get paid for dialing the calls, not making sales? Or both? Do cell phone users hve this problem? No answering machine to screen calls? I have a cell but it's normally turned off. I only use it in emergencies when my landline isn't working or I'm not at home and need to make a call. I almost never see a missed call listed and those are not telemarketing calls. -- I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook. |
| BigDog811 <bigdog811@gmail.com>: May 12 12:47PM -0700 On Friday, May 12, 2017 at 1:44:54 PM UTC-4, KenK wrote: > calls. > -- > I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook. Auto-dialers fishing for live numbers answered by people or machines that are then sold to various telemarketers, fund raisers, politicians, and other scam artists. My cell phone is used exactly like yours and I too rarely find a missed call not from someone I know. I never give that number to anyone. Only immediate family and very few close friends have it. Not sure why cell numbers aren't targeted more, but I'm not complaining. |
| hchickpea@hotmail.com: May 12 07:41PM -0500 >I either ignore calls from numbers I don't know or let it ring many >times before answering. Trolls and autodialers rarely let a phone ring >more than 4 times,or so it seems. My home phone is a VOIP over satellite, and I've had only five TM calls since the beginning of the year, with two of those being the same charity telemarketer. When I had a landline with AT&T there were often days with multiple TM calls. Follow the money. The telcoms get a minor income (some hundreth or thousandth of a cent) every time ANY call uses the system. WIth an excess of capability, there is no incentive to curb TM calls, even if it would be an easy find and fix. With the VOIP using valuable satellite time, there is a cost to the provider when these calls tie up the links. |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: May 12 05:14PM -0400 >when my landline isn't working or I'm not at home and need to make a call. >I almost never see a missed call listed and those are not telemarketing >calls. I do, sort of. My household has two cell phones. One is the "home" phone and is a ported landline number of ± 20-year's duration. For 19 of those years, I paid for a "unpublished" number. It gets no spurious calls. Another, "my" cell phone has been active for eleven years and ported across two "virtual network" providers that resell Verizon. It is off most of the time but, if left on for any length of time, it is far more likely to receive bs calls, and those from either of two numbers. I have messaging, data, and voice mail disabled on both numbers by the provider. That number has narrow distribution and an incoming call from a number not on its contact list is by definition bs. I either ignore calls from numbers I don't know or let it ring many times before answering. Trolls and autodialers rarely let a phone ring more than 4 times,or so it seems. -- Derald —"...the only traits that are passed down in your family are perversity, ego-centrism, laziness and sociopathic tendencies." --Lynn Barton, Filedheacht Music School, East Bridgewater, MA 2016 |
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