'Do Not Call' Complaints Up Sharply As More Americans Get Robocalled

As if he'll admit that...

It is, and I have. However, it's everyone else in this thread that making an issue of it, not me. If you find my handle triggering, well, that's not my problem.

So just the mention of AT&T set you off?

It was the fact it seemed like you ASSUMED I had AT&T, just like in the past where you ASSUMED your way (i.e. baiting) was the only way. I'm done with this conversation because, as I said, it's like talking to a brick wall

It isn't hard to do that, but the problem arises when someone you need to talk to calls from a different number.  For instance, suppose you called you doctor and you were waiting on a call back.  He is at the hospital and uses one of their many extensions to call you back.  You phone now rejects that call because it isn't in your contact list.  Unless you have 100% certainty that all calls to you will be from certain numbers, white listing is not a good idea.

Interesting.  Once again,you only show up when your benefactor is here.  Are you two sort of like kissing cousins or something?

Buuuuurn

The FTC's Lois Greisman's interview was mentioned in the first post in this thread. In a Nov. 25, 2007 interview with the L.A. Times, she was quoted as saying that for those up to it, "interacting" with the telemarketer was the only way to find out who is actually calling if the telemarketer is using a spoofed CID or fake entity name, or both. "Interacting" = code word for feigning interest.

Not fooling anyone troll

Why don't you read the 2007 article before commenting.

We know who you really are...

No, I really didn't care if you have AT&T or not. They (especially since SBC bought them, along with PacTel, BellSouth and their wireless assets) are just a very large carrier at the long distance, wireless, and ILEC levels.  There's a good chance your traffic will be carried by AT&T at some point, so was a good example. That you seem to hate AT&T (which I didn't know) I feel adds to the example. If AT&T monitored more of their calls content for liability reasons, how many of your phone calls would be potentially monitored?

Didn't take long to google the article: Marketers do a number on Do Not Call registry

Quote:

"By and large, a prerecorded call like that is illegal," said Lois Greisman, associate director of marketing practices at the FTC. "But generally we need the name of the actual seller or the name of the caller and ideally the number they're calling from."

But getting a name or number probably would require real interaction with the telemarketer. Book doesn't want to go that far.

Greisman didn't directly state that some interaction is required, but it's obvious the author Colker understood that some interaction (or previous reporting like from a site like this, maybe) from someone would be required to get the actual seller name.

She's quoted by the LA Times again in Jul 2013: Telemarketers call in reinforcements as they ignore do-not-call list

Quote:

And even though it may seem pointless, Greisman encouraged consumers to always report unwanted marketing calls to the FTC.

"We'll find who's making them," she pledged. "It's hard, but it's not impossible."

And here we go with the 'your way is the only way' bs-knew you wouldn't be able to resist attacking others for not doing so. Not fooling anyone with your anon posts either