>
> TurquoiseB wrote:
>
> >--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I hate to go off topic but there also seems to be a very
> > > virulent strain of telemarketinganitus spreading throughout
> > > the country. One of my credit card companies keeps calling
> > > to sell me a credit report service. For some reason they
> > > seem to have a problem understanding some part of "I'm not
> > > interested." I know all their numbers so just kill the call
> > > when I see the caller ID. But the other day I wanted to see
> > > what they were pushing and I wound up just hanging up on the
> > > idiot. They keep calling back. Anyhoo, I wanted to ask does
> > > France have telemarketers? Seems to me the French would have
> > > little tolerance for such idiocy.
> >
> >Sadly, the French have idiots, too, and some of them
> >are telemarketers. I don't have caller ID, but there
> >is the same tip-off here as there was in the US. If
> >you answer and no one is there and then you hear a
> >click, it's a telemarketer. what happens is that a
> >machine auto-dials their list of suckers and then
> >transfers it to a human being (or close approximation
> >thereof) when someone answers. The pause and the click
> >is the giveaway every time. So whenever I hear them
> >I hang up.
> >
> >It's never failed. I figure if it were really some-
> >one I know calling me or someone trying to reach me
> >about something important, they'd call right back.
> >But no one ever calls back, so it's telemarketers.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> I do the same thing with the auto-dialers. There was even a
device sold
> that foiled the autodialers into thinking they hit a modem or fax
> machine which would often result in the number being taken off the
> list. When I get really pissed I have some screeching audio files
I
> play back over the phone. :)
>
I don't know about you but despite being on the donotcall list, over
the past several months telemarketing calls have really increased to
my home.
Perhaps it is because I am self-employed and I use my home phone
number as the listed business number for several professional
filings I am required to do (such as licenses. Because these
filings are public domain and since businesses are exempt from the
donotcall list, perhaps that is what is happening.
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