New Rules For Robocalls

So, what's the number? We all would like to get in on the fun!

Yes, I am one of the evil telemarketers. My company does business to business sales though. Entirely different landscape. We have no DNC lists. It's just part of the sales process today. 30 years ago you came into your office and the salesmen were lined up in the receptionists lobby waiting their turn to see you. And it usually went on all day long!

In any event at home I AM on the DNC list. And I still get calls. If you all think this is going to stop them think again. It has to be enforced and in the end, law enforcement has more than enough on their hands being a secondary tax collection service for the local governments. So, companies are going to continue to call you and more or less dare you to take action. Let me know how that action works out for ya!

Better that you become pro-active and creative in your efforts. Try these:

1. Go along with them long enough to get enough information about the company making the call and who they are calling on behalf of. THAT isn't going to do anything more than let you bluff them. Once you know the particulars you can lower the hammer on the guy calling you. YOu can bluff legal action and if you are convincing enough they usually gert the calling to stop.

2. Act interested then holler things like HONEY, COME TAKE THE GUN AWAY FROM JUNIOR. HE CAN'T HARDLY HOLD THE THING UP! Or: SON! PUT THAT BEER DOWN. YOU K>NOW YOU CAN'T HAVE MORE THAN TWO A DAY TILL YOUR 12th BIRTHDAY!!!

3. HONEY! COME TAKE THAT JOINTY AWAY FROM THE KID! HE'S TOO YOUNG TO BE SMOKING POT!

4. Act interested and then change the subject to yoour Aunt Jenny and how she had something like that once.... keep it up till you've kept the schmuck on the phone for 20 minutes then tell then "Nawww. I don't think I want that...." and hang up!

5. HONEY, TELL YOUR DAUGHTER IT'S NOT HER TURN TO SLEEP WITH DADDY TONIGHT. IT'S HER BROTHER'S!

None of these will work often but they do bring about a certain satisfaction to your end of the process.

Yep and these are the people that are telling us they cannot afford to deliver mail on Saturdays. The postal Service is 12 BILLION dollars in debt! Yet they KEEP expanding the junk mail services which are NEVER included on the postage increases because it would hurt business. They KEEP telling us it's the Junk Mail that funds the post office.... well HELL-OH! MAYBE if they STOPPED the Direct Mail services their work load would decrease enough that they might start MAKING money again?

Obviously the way they are doing things now isn't working!

Must suck to be 971-208-9903

These marketers offered an opt out right up front. Said it'd be 24hrs to take effect.  Have to be glad for that.  But wait. Something is wrong that I have to take any call invasion in the first place.

Hi Cate, I see you are making the rounds from Who Called Us regarding your thorny problem with PRA. If it's your debt account in question, you already gave your consent to take collection calls the very moment you agreed to a lender contract. For skip tracing purposes it would be absurd for collection agencies to first obtain a written "opt-in". They would have to do this for every adult in North America, and get a single digit percentage of the populace on board at best, making their jobs impossible. No one in state or federal government is going to be caught regulating an entire industry out of business, no matter how much harm it may cause. (see also the tobacco industry)

I suggest not to answer 'unknown' calls. Besides the annoyance and other reasons listed here, there may be nanoparticles in our bodies that are being dusted on us constantly from the chemtrails that are being sprayed in the sky all over the world. Scientists use sound frequency to activate them. If you have questions look up chemtrails and nanotechnology on the Internet. There are good uses for nanotechnology and it can also be terribly misused! You may want to add DARPA to your search if you are a doubting a Thomas.

I hope this new rule makes some difference.  But, they need aggressively to do more to stop phone solicitation of all kinds, including surveys, charities, etc.  And, don't stop there.  Stop spamming as well.  Make them pay... SAVE THE POSTAL SERVICE !  ;-)

I post this in threads on here all the time, not because I'm in anyway affiliated with the developers. My mentality is, like email spam, if phone spam ceases to be effective, the scum that sends it will start to give up. Unfortunately there's still too many suckers out there in 2012, so it continues for now.

PhoneTray Free software works well for me. Just Google it. If your PC has a dial-up modem, run your phone line into it then out to your phone. If your modem doesn't have a line out jack, use a splitter from your wall to both your modem and phone.

You can block repeated pests (zap 'em) and/or leave custom messages. Block an entire area code if you like. My sleep/work no longer gets interrupted by any one scumbag more than once, and I can view a log of every call I've missed - good or crap. My answering maching is no longer full of garbage and dead air.

If you have a home phone or device attached that has a block feature, great. What NOT to do is pay the scummy mega-corp phone company extra for the 'privillege' of blocking a handful of numbers. I tried this for a while, and learned that some numbers could not be blocked. Which ones? Likely the surveys and spam that is sent on behalf of your very phone serivce provider.

I have a home and business number, so I get 3 times the crap. 'Google' calls my business line constantly trying to sell me a listing on the first page. Just give them my credit card number...yeah right.

No more scams. No more spam. No more newspapers. No more select charities I'm not interested in donating to...and my favorite of all...no more politicians!

The government and cartel phone companies have no interest in helping you. Sadly, it's like cancer - there's no money in a cure. You gotta take care of yourself, so fight tech with tech.

Although I'm in Canada, I imagine this same advice would benefit an American too...remove yourself from the DNC list. It's almost been proven to make things worse, because any slimeball with enough money can attain a copy for the opposite use, and any crap originating outside your boarder had no fear of violating it anyway.

Enjoy your peace!

The rules now are not being followed. Why would new rules be any different. The problem is the attack should be against the carrier allowing the scum to keep calling and the government allowing the 'rules' to be ignored. The government has been faking out the populace for years with this 'rules but no teeth to enforce them' game.

The rules seem to have no teeth.

Another useless Federal regulation.  People receiving phone spam cannot identify the callers, and cannot report the callers to any law enforcement agency.  

A small victory against these people which you may wish to emulate: After getting many dozen robocalls about refinancing my credit card debt, I got an agent on the line and I pretended to be old, out of it, and heavily in debt.  I slowly asking confused questions, pretended to look for my credit card, pretended to look for my glasses, pretended to be forgetful about what I was doing.  The scammer hung in there for TWENTY MINUTES before hanging up.  I was so glad to have wasted his time.

What is the use of the registry if spammers continue to attack you?

"The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. Most telemarketers should not call your number once it has been on the registry for 31 days. If they do, you can file a complaint at this Website. You can register your home or mobile phone for free."  My phone has been registered since 2005 and I am getting Robo-called by 20 different numbers a day.  WTF?  I am starting to wonder if the DO NOT CALL Registry has been hacked.

If everyone who receives a telemarketer call, in turn phoned their local government rep immediately after receiving the call, maybe, just maybe they might get the message that something has to be done.

THAT IS A REAL PROBLEM WITH ENFORCING LAWS THAT ARE MADE BY OUR GOVERNMENT AND NO ONE TO ENFORCE THEM!! SUCH AS ALL THESES BUREAUS THAT ARE SUPPOSE TO REGULATE BANKS ,OIL COMPANIES FINANCIAL ILLEGAL ACTIONS, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. WE PAY GOOD TAX MONEY TO BE PROTECTED FROM ALL THIS COMPANIES BUT THEY EVIDENTLY ARE NOT REQUIRED TO DO THEIR JOBS. WHY DO WE THESE PEOPLE WHEN IT HAS BEEN PROVED THEY ARE PROTECTING THE CITIZENS?? THE COMPANIES WINE AND DINE AND BRIBE THEM WHICH ADDS TO THE PRICE OF GOODS THAT ARE ALREADY COSTING US TOO MUCH!! IS THERE NO ONE LET WITH INTEGRITY ANY MORE. ?? IF NOT WE ARE A DOOMED NATION