Dealing with Telemarketers
Here’s a classic Jerry Seinfeld response to an annoying telemarketer.
In the US we have the Do Not Call Registry. (It only takes a minute to sign up.)
Companies can be fined for making telemarketing calls if you are on the registry. (On a side note: I wish there was a registry I could sign up for to deflect the disproportionate amount of wrong number calls I seem to receive.)
It seems that telemarketers are now spamming people with unsolicited text messages to mobile devices. I’ve received a few of these already. Is there an easy way to block them?
–Krishna
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qka
March 19, 2010 at 11:44 pmWhile telemarketers are supposed to know what telephone numbers are mobile phones and by law cannot call them, with a growing portion of the US population moving to using mobile phones exclusively, telemarketers are worried they are losing their marks, er, I mean prospects.
You can register your mobile with the Do Not Call (DNC) registry. I would start their.
After the DNC interval after registration for telemarketers to stop calling expires, when you receive an unsolicited text, consider it an unsolicited call and contact the FTC. (FTC = Federal Trade Commission, the agency responsible for the DNC registry). See what they do. If nothing, you can always contact your Congress critters, etc. – not that it will accomplish much in the short term, but hey, they are always looking for little things to pass into law so that they can avoid addressing the big issues.
Chris
March 24, 2010 at 12:43 amAh telemarketers, they rank right up there with prostate exams and holes in the head.