513-562-1300

Mrsi remove my number i dont no how you got its private, donot call or further actio
n will be taken.

I tried info@mrsi.com and windows says no such address.

They will NEVER remove your number, don't waste your time!

Not going to do any good posting this.... But they are a legit survey company.

They call daily at dinner time.  I want them to stop!  My number is unpublished.

513-562-1300 MRSI is now called LRC international Marketing Survey company.  Send an email to    donotcall@mrsi.com.  We'll see if it works.

my elderly dad was scammed a couple of years ago by a couple of women who claimed to have kids with heavy medical expenses and promised to take care of him. He may have been targeted because the property next door to him is a fraud magnet--built without septic or sewer, and by a guy who claims clout and corruption within the local Illinois police and permitting departments -- including bragging about knowing the "real story" of my dad's last divorce (when the local police insisted on taking his report of the scam in front of his then-wife). Anyway, my dad doesn't smoke or answer surveys and fought putting a caller id on this line until someone broke into his house and poured gallons of water onto the floor which he prided himself on having painstakenly redone, warping it. Then AT&T proved uncooperative when we asked for help tracking the scammers. Finally, the line has caller ID and gets a call from this Ohio number (according to spokeo.com associated with over 1000 cases of telemarketing) as well as "unavailable" at 326-172-0000 and "illinois call" at 708-931-5311, as well as several dinnertime calls that end after one ring so the caller ID doesn't pick up. Plus I had both my phones and email addresses go bad when I attempted to call the village about the parade of scams; and even now I'm getting calls from 708-613-2043 and 917-398-9164 and 443-794-2651 and 82-70-7539-7768 (south korea!). Lost in all the kerfluffle about the NSA is the widespread lack of privacy in the records we Americans consider most private, especially medical and financial records. It's frustrating dealing with fraudsters like these to whom democracy is merely another scam opportunity.

These people are harassing my 82 year old mother! They will not tell me what they want....but I have an airhorn for them. I hope they call back soon!

Who cares? If you do not want to participate you do not want to participate.

Stop these crooks from calling me especially after 9pm

They call me at 8 on a Friday evening? Annoying as I was busy in the kitchen and expecting a call and ran to the phone only to see MRSI and this number on my caller ID. I never answer an unknown caller. They left no message. If they call again I WILL report them to the CBBB. Thanks for that info, Eric. Just saw the next post. Why call me? I have NEVER smoked!

Then if you have proof of requesting your number to be removed, you can sue them for $1500 per call in small claims court but you must have proof of the request. A screenshot of an email is not proof.  A notarized "Cease and Desist" letter sent Certified Mail, Return Receipt is legal proof however.

Yes, you can verify that by going to the DNC website and reading the "Information for Consumers" link.

You are providing bogus information.  The ONLY type of calls covered by the law are SALES calls, no attempt, direct or indirect, to sell you something and no violation has occurred.  In fact, companies like MRSI cannot even register with the FTC to gain access to the DNC list.  They could not consult it to remove numbers even if they wanted to.

I know he posted this last year but to others reading these messages, it would do a world of good to actually understand how the DNC Registry actually works and what is covered and what is not.  Here are the two most important information links from the DNC website:

Information for Consumers: http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0108-national-do-not-call-registry
Information for Businesses: https://www.donotcall.gov/faq/faqbusiness.aspx

Far too many posters in threads like this have a totally unrealistic understanding of the DNC list, what it's purpose is, how it works and what calls are covered and what are not.

Whether they are paid to make survey calls is not relevant, only whether an attempt to sell you goods or services is the purpose for the call. Surveys that turn into sales calls or are fishing for sales leads are not permitted but information only surveys are allowed.  In point of fact, unless MRSI also makes telemarketing sales calls, they are not even permitted to register with the FTC for access to the DNC list and could not consult it even if they wanted to.  So just how is MRSI supposed to remove numbers that are on the DNC list before calling people?

They conduct a wide range of market surveys for various clients, smokers are just one demographic they are polling.

Thank u Sandy,  called the emergency # u left and asked that my # be removed. She said she would. Let's see if it works...

Oooyyy... There is no "National Call Registry", first off. Second, the Do Not Call registry cannot enforce anything because it is *A LIST*, not a guard dog and not a regulatory body. Third, no one at the FTC is going to "get them to stop" for you. The surveyors all tend to maintain an *internal* no-call list. It's up to those companies to honor cease-comm requests, and most do.

The purpose of a call determines what laws control, if any. That much is correct. An exempt organization is however *not* prohibited from accessing the DNC registry for scrubbing, and it doesn't get charged as telemarketers do. It should go without saying that exempt callers have little incentive to scrub DNC, apart from an excess of caution. A surveyor's potential sample group would otherwise be unfairly limited.

The DNC registry is empowered by the Telemarketing Sales Rule and the TCPA. Those laws address only sales callers. Circa 2002 the great majority of nuisance calls were from telemarketers, making an easy target for the registry. A blanket restriction on other call categories would simply create too many cases of unfair punishment of entities with a perfect right to make unsolicited phone calls. If DNC covered surveyors, it would for example hamstring the Census Bureau, which conducts surveys *mandated by Congress* and which are useful in local planning and research.

FTC: The Telemarketing Sales Rule
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0198-telemarketing-sales-rule

Not to dismiss the issue of data privacy, but that's one which will take a great deal more work and subtlety than a single government program can achieve.