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..on my cell phone from a 720-564-0156. Denver. chases back to good ol' Jennifer Falco, 1540 Columbine Ave,Boulder, CO 80302. Apparently the warranty on my car is about to expire. This from a pre-recorded (male) voice message. Wonder which one they're referring to? Everything here is at least twenty years old.


I'm cranked kinda tight over this. Jenny don't answer if called back, a: "this number is no longer in service" or somesuch...

Goin' to th' "Do Not Call" list now. :madder:
 
I learned recently that if you're a customer of a company, the "do not call" does not affect them....they can call to offer you deals or upgrades or whatever without violating the rule!
 
Got a call today from our local paper (to which we already subscribe, and the call was from another area code...) - on my cell phone!

I asked the young lady why she was calling, and she went into her spiel. Told her we were already subscribers, and informed her this was a cell phone; did she know to whom she was speaking?

She said the calls were computer generated, apologized, and went into the "if-you-have-any-questions/concerns, call-1-800-SEE-IF-I-CARE" routine.

Cell phones are NOT invulnerable, after all...
 
Ive actually gotten a couple of spam text messages! I never text. it drives me crazy, and costs money!!! and to open a text that I received costs money too! Now I can pay to get telemarketed! talk about ticked off!!!!!
 
Banjo said:
Ive actually gotten a couple of spam text messages! I never text. it drives me crazy, and costs money!!! and to open a text that I received costs money too! Now I can pay to get telemarketed! talk about ticked off!!!!!
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If it's available, you should get an unlimited plan. I found out the easy way how fast that stuff adds up. I probably overpay on my cell phone, for how much I use it, but at least I don't have to worry if I'm going over my minutes every time I call my folks.

This does not excuse the use of texts for spam.

-Wm.
 
A very simple solution! Be like me, Don`t answer the Phone NO MATTER whom it is calling! :lol:
Although I don`t have or want a cell phone. The phone here at the house is enough to drive a man to drinking. I`v reached the point that IF I have my specs handy so I can see the caller ID, and IF I know for certain whom the caller is, and IF I feel like talking, OR i`m expecting a call from someone IMPORTANT, I MIGHT answer. BUT ..... don`t count on it :lol:
 
My son has the unlimited text plan and he is constantly getting spam texts, my husand has 300 texts per month and he occasionally gets texts, I pay $.10 perr text message and I have (knock on wood) never gotten one.....I will say the first time I do I will be contacting my carrier immediately. I wonder if the carrierr is selling lists of those who have the unlimited package to spammers.
 
Banjo said:
Ive actually gotten a couple of spam text messages! I never text. it drives me crazy, and costs money!!! and to open a text that I received costs money too! Now I can pay to get telemarketed! talk about ticked off!!!!!
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<span style="color: #990000">We get those darned text spam all the time.
Usually trying to sell us music concert tickets.

A pain in the patootie.</span>
 
Before I retired I used to get spam on my office fax machine. They were using my paper and toner for their benefit.
 
Fax-spam is the worst. I get a ton of the stuff, almost all the same - insurance plans that cost almost nothing but are better than anything else out there, cheap dream vacations, and hot stock tips (pump-and-dump schemes).

In 5 years I've gotten one spam text message from outside the country.

The "do not call" list? It works here. My telemarketing calls have dropped from a couple a week to one every couple of months.

The only annoying legal "telemarketing" calls were from the Discover Card (I'm a customer). They were calling every other week for a long time, I finally had enough and wrote to the company and said either the calls stop or the card gets cancelled. I haven't had a call since.
 
My ex-fiancee' and I used to get telemarketer calls all the time. When they would ask to speak with the head of the household, I tell them hold on a min, and I would go into the office where we kept Houdini (a 12 year old umbrella cockatoo that loved to talk to people), and put it on speakerphone. Then I'd walk out of the office, shut the door, and go back to eating.









I almost miss that bird.
 
DeltaAir423 said:
My ex-fiancee' and I used to get telemarketer calls all the time. When they would ask to speak with the head of the household, I tell them hold on a min, and I would go into the office where we kept Houdini (a 12 year old umbrella cockatoo that loved to talk to people), and put it on speakerphone. Then I'd walk out of the office, shut the door, and go back to eating.









I almost miss that bird.
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:lol:
 
I like taking the "confuse them" approach.

Someone called to do a "survey" a couple of weeks ago. They had only one question: were they calling a residence or a business phone?

I said, "a what? - and she repeated it. I told her "I don't know what you're talking about, I'm not talking on a phone".

Confusion set in, and an Abbott & Costello routine started for a few minutes until she got disgusted and hung up.




Another way to catch them off-guard is when they ask the inevitable "how are you today?" I usually say something like "terrible", "awful", or "horrible". The last time I did it the guy said "oh I'm sorry, what's wrong?" I said, "yeah sure you are, I just got fired, my house burnt down, and my dog ran away to join the circus". He started laughing and I blurted out, "what are you laughing at, don't laugh at me!" The guy really tried to be nice, but don't forget - he was a salesman.

After 5 minutes of my sad story he said "is there anything I can do to help?" I said, "yes - can I interest you in some insurance today? I'm running a special today only". He laughed and said, "no thanks" and hung up.
 
We have a medium sulfur crested cockatoo. (think Barretta - Robert Blake) Makes phone calls really interesting at times! :laugh:
 
The thing I hate the MOST is the calls where the person on the other end is reading a computer and cannot have a discussion with you beyond what they are seeing on their screen. I am sure you all have had experiences like this. How brain dead are we as a society??
 
Just wait until the political calls start flowing in September and October (remember, they don't have to obey the DNC lists). If you're really good, you can create havoc with a pollster. Just swing far left and far right with each successive question...
 
Silverghost said:
We have a medium sulfur crested cockatoo. (think Barretta - Robert Blake) Makes phone calls really interesting at times! :laugh:
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I said I almost missed that bird. I was working midnight shift for the longest time, and while sleeping during the day, Houdini would call out to the Major Mitchell Cockatoo in the other room. There were many a days I didn't get much sleep, and wasn't to appreciative of my ex fiancee'.
 
my sister in law sells Creative memory scrapbooking and when a telemarketer calls he she turns the conversation around and tries to sell her scrapbooking supplies to them. (they don't stay on the phone long)
 
Hahahahaha, reminds me of a few times when I have recieved a call from the same number, numorus times in one day. I pretended like I couldn`t hear them! Kept saying, HUH? Sir I can hardly hear you! There must be something wrong with your phone because I can hear others just fine. BUT .... you`ll have to speak louder. I continue this routine until the person on the other end of the line is virtualy yelling :lol: then I will say, try calling back. When they do I just say is this the same person that I just talked to? No matter what the response, my response is, HUH? I can hardly hear you, you`ll have to speak up! I have continued this routine { Mostly for self entertainment rather than anything else} until the caller gets frustrated enough to hang up and not call back.
Another good one is to respond in a foriegn language { Spanish for me}, sometimes this tactic doesn`t work if the caller speaks spanish though. If thats the case I go into the No puedo oĂ­rle claramente routine :lol:
 
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