New Rules For Robocalls

I have a prepay verizon phone I am perfectly happy with because it makes me always available, but I have limited calls. I used to get text messages from scams @ .10 ea. The only way I could avoid was to take ALL text messaging off. I lost my balance availability and notice of auto-pymt, but OK. I would pay .35 every robocall (.25 connect and .10 per minute). I have no call answering, so when I see calls from all the states, I just dont answer them. Im still completely amazed that apparently nobody pays attention to the law regarding cell phone robocalling, and despite a momentary downtick in robodialed scam calls, theyve picked up again. And of course FCC doesnt enforce laws, so its like having a law that nobody pays attention to. Im starting to think that the United States has more scam artists and crooked politicians and unenforced laws than the rest of the world combined. And Im certainly not going to write a note like this on every robodialed illegal cell phone call I receive. One of the things I read about the reason for passing the new law was 16,000 complaints about this practice to FCC. 16,000? More like 16 million. If the govt actually enforced the law and fined the scofflaws, it could probably pay for the costy of govt. My point is, it doesnt change a thing. The same robodialed calls keep on happening, with no penalties, so it changes nothing.....

This new Law will do NOTHING, since Charities and Political Calles are exempt. :(

It also won't stop the pests calling from foreign countries, out of reach of US authorities.

That's why the only "real" solution that would be effective is through the phone company. But whatever the solution might be, unless it's mandatory, ie, law, I don't think the telcos would cooperate. They are against any copyright law that would obligate them to police the internet which I agree 100%, so would this be any different? idk, even if it is apples and oranges, they are only just the conduit. Still, it would be nice if there was some type of system or even a service where if you get a call, you can add that to a block list. Hell, I'd pay for a service like that. What good are rules if it's voluntary... the do not call registry is a joke and frankly its an insult. We need real enforceable regulations that are mandatory not voluntary..

Since they passes the new regulations, my getting robocalls has actually increased, and no opt out anywhere before, during, after the calls. They're like the plague.

Than God for the new law and hopefully
there is a legal loop hole the caller can jump through.  The 502-410-3171 call is a mystery to me.  There is a never ending cycle, the operater is not educated with information to help about what card, account or company she is working with.  I would really like to know the purpose of the call and what they really want.  Almost like someone is being paid for an amount of calls that is being made for them and the company paying the caller really does not know what they are paying for. . .  I sure have no idea what they really want.? .?

I meant: Thank God, Hopefully there will not be a legal loop hole they can jump through.  I hope in my former message I did not predict the future.

Telemarketing should be banned period.
If I want a service/product I will shop for it!

If you have an Internet connection you can buy VoIP service from many companies.  Set up your router QoS parameters and you get great call quality.

Once you have your VoIP service in place they usually have a list of who called and a procedure to put any number on your 'block call' list.  It works great and you never get a call from that number again.

I am noticing an increase in the number of calls this past week. In previous weeks I got maybe 2-3 scam/telemarketing calls a week. This past week alone I have documented 12 such calls.

Reply to Meh: This is a little "off topic" but I would like to mention my experience with Girl Scout cookies at the door, as you reported on them last February.

The last year we used that method we ordered and paid for three boxes. When they were delivered there were two boxes. "Oh," they said, "you requested one box be sent to service people in Iraq".

Well, we didn't, but had no receipts for the small cash purchase. We would have remembered, our son, Richard VI is in the Navy and he can easily get his own cookies when he wants them.

So, now we buy the cookies where you can get your hands on them before you pay. In front of Super Markets, Farmer's Markets, etc. You can even scarf up free samples there.

Thanks to 800notes for this valuable forum on marketing scams.

And exactly how do they propose to enforce this new rule? Telemarketers don't pay any attention to the Do Not Call registry now, and no one does anything about it. When you file a complaint with Do Not Call, they tell you they can't do anything except add it to the database of complaints. So, until they actually start to enforce these laws, in my opinion,there is nothing to get excited about!

Took them this long to come up with rules that should of been made years ago. But I bet you that these "call centers" aren't going to bother learning/adapting these rules. It'll take years and a ton of money to shut down and fine/jail these call centers. We all know they just move around and/or bounce calls off of phone/cell/comp/fax lines. Good luck in getting them to adhere to the rules.
Also I think political and charities should have to abide by these rules too. Last election season I got calls almost every hour about some stupid politician but the kicker wais ... I didn't even live in the city the calls were coming from!! It wasn't even about my own city's politicians FFS!! And for charities ... sorry ... but calling me constantly ISN'T going to make me want to contribute to you. I'll stick with the ones that don't annoy me by calling all day.

After thousands of rings, the option that worked well for me was the ignore option. If those coward on the other end rings me for whatever reason, I ignore them. The ringing gets annoying but ignoring them makes me the one under control. If I were to pick up the phone and answer a coward who changes numbers to call me, I'd be a fool so I am going to give them their best medicine, the ignore option :-)

But by any chance if the coward(scammer or not) decided to grow a spine, 2 balls, and called me with his own number, I'd answer him. Till then, he'll be ignored.