>> They have been calling me 16 times during the night and early morning hours as well as another 16 times during the day. <<
Modern technology has given telescammers the tools to call you. Since those telescammers are criminals, they ignore both the Do Not Call list and any request you might make. Modern technology can also protect you, if YOU do a few simple things! The first thing to do is buy a call blocker device, service or app. Then, use it correctly.
Google "call blocker" for more information, or visit your favorite sales site. http://gg.gg/blockers
If you cannot afford or use such a tool, then: * Do not answer calls from unknown numbers ... let them go to voicemail or answering service * Do NOT return calls from unknown numbers! All that does is verify your phone number! And, in some cases, those return calls may cost $20 or more to complete. * If you have a "dumb" cell phone, assign the scammer's number to a group named "scammers" (or similar). Then, assign a silent ringtone to that group.
I AM ON THE GOVERNMENT'S DO NOT CALL LIST! SO IS MY BUSINESS AND YET, you guys are calling me about 16 TIMES DURING THE ENTIRE NIGHT AND ANOTHER 16 TIMES DURING THE DAY!
Calls come in French, Brazilian, other languages. We are gathering evidence against you for a class action lawsuit and notify everyone on my list of 50,000 media contacts as I am a published author and free lance reporter.
Reply to Slim: Thank you. FYI, the calls are being made to my business number and land line, not to my cell phone. I will investigate blocking but I have Verizon and they do NOT help block calls. There is no other landline in this area. Monopolies and harrassing, unwanted telemarketing calls are alive and well, even though they were supposed to be illegal to protect the people (can you imagine what elderly people are going through?). Greedy companies, including land telephone companies and electric companies, etc.. take advantage of that because they know businesses need landlines and people need electricity.
The only way is to let the media know what these Callerid4u people are doing. So notify your local newspapers' investigative reporters and also send "letters to the editor". When all else fails, go to the press.
We have filed a complaint with the FCC. Unfortunately, they have done NOTHING and we keep getting calls from these people. CallerID4U has responded that they are the innocent (yeah right!) and if I would so kindly provide the number they are calling from, then they would get us removed. Our business gets no less than 14 calls per day. It causes lost productivity and takes away from patients who need our services. Come on Feds, we know you're eavesdropping! Help us out!
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William
If callerid4u is so on the up-nd-up why did they cold-call me from the number 360-633-9578 which the White Pages lists as belonging to callrid4u? What did they want? Thankfully my anwering machine answered it and they left no message. I have been having numerous annoying phone calls over the last month. Coincidence?
The national Do-Not-Call list protects home voice or personal wireless phone numbers only. While you may be able to register a business number, your registration will not make telephone solicitations to that number unlawful.
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Not stupid
And now they are spoofing numbers. My local real estate agency and a neighbor (or their caller ID) have repeatedly called me to offer lower interest on my credit card rates which coincidentally sounds just like the people from "Consumer svcs" etc.
More interestingly, I have called myself twice to offer same. Now if that's not illegal I don't know what is. I have notified Verizon, FTC, FCC, and my lawmakers.
I am confident that their day will come. And they will go down HARD!!
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Not Important
216-202-5998 aka Merchant Solutions Group aka BIZ LOANS aka CALLERID4u just called our business. It was an Illegal Robocall. The call was from Ashley and she was calling to inform us that our small business qualifies for a shady supposedly low interest loan that in very tiny, almost impossible to read without a microscope, print lets you know that it's actually balloon rate adjustable interest rate that will go from 12 percent to 75 percent overnight, and that their scumbag company will ruin your credit rating almost overnight, and when you suddenly can't make the payments that they will place your business, illegally mind you, into multiple collection agencies, thereby furthering the damage to your businesses credit rating. No thanks Ashley, I think we'll pass on your supposed low interest rate small business loan. But I have no problems reporting your illegal robocalls to the FCC.gov, and the FTC.gov websites since your company obviously doesn't feel the need to follow federal laws and has no problems trying to rip people off.
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NoVaGal
Just went on the Telecom Compliance News website (http://telemarketerspam.wordpress.com/) and CallerId4U has a bunch of new numbers. For those of you (like me) who are blocking these numbers, latest additions are:
You said in 2013 that you're "completely unrelated" to Card member services - but - yet they have called my phone repeatedly using your number (458-201-0390) and a caller ID of DirecTV. Since June of this year, they have called my number nearly 50 times, most of which were with spoof'd ID's. I want you to give up their current business info to the FCC and everyone who needs it - because - for every spoof call they have made - the person receiving the call is entitled to sue the caller (under the Truth in Caller ID law) for restitution of $1500 per call - oh, and the callers are libel for $10,000.00 per call made as penalty under the law. Show some guts - turn them in and plead your case to FCC for non-involvement.
I get these calls from Ashley 4-5 times a day. Have pressed one and asked for company information, they hang up. Anthony is the guy that usually answers after you wait. He now knows my voice and hangs up instantly. He has told me the company name is Sam Kee Merchant Financing in Nebraska. No such company. Once he told me the company was in Gaza. They are calling my toll free inbound number posted on my website and this needs to stop. Small claims court seems to be the only way to harass them back.
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dave
Spend some $ and buy a call blocking caller id, i did it works well. you can get them to block entire area codes etc.
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CAD
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Did anyone ever notice that after you added your number to the do not call registry your scam calls went wayyy up in about a month or two? I sure did. Anyone can purchase the do not call registry. Anyone who fills out the form and pays the fee. Then the scammers have your number. Then they sell that list to other scammers, your number is out there BECAUSE our GOV made some money selling your number on that list! Of course the GOV does NOT want that list to go away, it keeps the registry people with a job! AND the GOV has your number now! So, took my number off the list. It took about 6 months to start taking effect, but the calls went dramatically down. Way down. And now after 2 years of being off the do not call, I might get one or two calls every month now, compared to daily calls. So, what does that tell you!
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