BS: Unwanted Calls

Subject: BS: Unwanted Calls
From: tremodt
Date: 24 Oct 03 - 05:17 PM

I read some where that you can program your answer machine to fool unwanted calls by sounding a tone before you record your message making automatic dialer think you have disconnected your phone can some one refresh me please

ron

Subject: RE: BS: Unwanted Calls
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 24 Oct 03 - 05:27 PM

Depends on the answering machine...   There are some that will do this... most won't... but there are seperate 'boxes' you can get (I think one commercial one is The Phone Zapper) that'll do it...

Or if you have a full voice modem in yer PC, there are plenty of programs you can download that'll do all this and much much more!

Subject: RE: BS: Unwanted Calls
From: Amos
Date: 24 Oct 03 - 05:41 PM

Phone Zapper foils robot diallers prettty well.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Unwanted Calls
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 25 Oct 03 - 09:52 AM

New York State has a do not call registry. For how long depends on the courts. I used to answer the phone "Russian Embassy.." (AS if I was an answering machine Also breathing heavily into the phone or saying "I told you never to call here and slamming the phone was fun too :~) Neil

Subject: RE: BS: Unwanted Calls
From: Firecat
Date: 25 Oct 03 - 11:51 AM

As one of the poor sods who works in a call centre (not for much longer hopefully!), I may be able to help on the UK unwanted calls thing. If you mean cold callers, then there is a thing called the Telephone Preference Service, which will take you off computer databases. PM me if you want the number for UK ones. I don't know about if you've got something like that for all over America.

Subject: RE: BS: Unwanted Calls
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 25 Oct 03 - 07:17 PM

In the U.S. the federal law that governs telemarketers is the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA)47USC Section 227. Details are provided in the Code of Federal Regulations (find it on Google) 47 CFR Section 64.1200.

Among other things, this law states that telemarketers must keep a "do-not-call" list. This is NOT the government's national "do-not-call" list.When consumers request that their names be placed on that list, the company is barred from calling them again for a period of 10 years.

So, when they call, ask if they have a "do-not-call" list. We have never had anyone say no but if they did we would quote them the law. When they say yes, ask to be put on it. Our experience has been that the caller immediately starts calling us sir or ma'am and promises that we won't be called again. Within a month our telemarketing calls dwindled to less than one a month.

Try it, you'll love it.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Unwanted Calls
From: GUEST,NH Dave
Date: 25 Oct 03 - 09:56 PM

Answering machines that will record your message can have those tones and messages recorded on them by recording these tones and messages of inactive numbers, at least here in the US. I have Caller ID and usually let my fax machine answer calls from people who don't identify themselves or call from "Caller ID blocked phones."   Most telemarketers soon learn not to call fax numbers.

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: Unwanted Calls
From: tremodt
Date: 25 Oct 03 - 11:31 PM

they are some good suggestions thanks to all