406-351-4361

Got a call from "Hi this is Tom from home protection" again today, average 2 calls a day from them. went thru the voice prompts to get a "call back" since I said I was "interested". cant talk to a human otherwise. 10 minutes later got a call from "VMS"  virtual monitoring service or something like that at 1-866-493-1253 ext 200, the caller said he was from the "alarm company"...was able to get on their Do Not Call list, I think VMS is the "mothership" for the Tom from Home Protection robo dialer.... hopefully being on the VMS Do Not Call List will stop calls from the robo dialers they hire!  fingers crossed....

Most of you people are really dumb, aren't you? It's not an actual human being dialing your phone number over and over again; It's a computer. These call centers use software to make phone calls. It's called a predictive dialer (look it up). Let's say they set the dialer to a 5:1 ratio. The system dials 5 phone numbers at a time for every available agent. The first line that picks up gets routed to the agent's computer (hence the delay before someone comes on the line). The computer then puts the other 4 calls into the agent's queue. This is the reason why you may pick up and just get dead air. These companies purchase your information from various sources. Most of you have probably signed up for things online, not realizing that those fields you were filling in become the information used by telemarketers to call you. This data gets sold in batches. Then it gets resold. And then it gets sold again. And so on. Before you know it, several companies are calling you to sell you one thing or another. Now, data is expensive. If these companies actually removed information from their databases every time somebody said they weren't interested, or not to call anymore, their reps wouldn't have phone numbers to dial all day. These companies use other companies' services to protect their identities and make untraceable phone calls from numbers like this one. It's a numbers game: a rep will make six or eight hundred calls a day, get two or four people to sign up or buy whatever it is that they're selling, put food on their table. That's all it is, a job. These people aren't evil-scam-artist-criminal-psychos, they're moms and dads, sons and daughters, friends and neighbors, trying to keep up with bills and paying taxes just like you folks. Bottom line: get the f**k over it! Change your number. Stop signing up for things online, or over the phone, or filling out the slips to win the free car at the mall. Get a smartphone and download any number of apps that will block any unwanted calls before they ever ring through to your phone. Or just surrender to the fact that telemarketers will be around as long as there are telephones... And they have your number. #dealwithit

Tracked one call (through followups) to a telemarketing manager in CT

Feel free to call his personal mobile phone number constantly and repeatedly here: 203-434-0572


I encourage people to waste these companies' time by following up and leading them through fake sales leads. Show them TOM is a waste of time.

This number just called today. no message, just hung up when I answered. This is the same number for the credit card scam except for the area code.