We got a new number last year and we get on the average 5-6 calls a day from bill collectors targeting someone who I assume had the number before us. No matter how many times we tell them they don’t own this number or email them we still get calls. I have gotten to where if they don’t call my cell I don’t answer.
If you can find an old fax machine record a tone sequence onto your phone and play it back to your answering machine message.
Oh, fighting back on those calls can be so fun. In the end you can get them to stop but it takes a bit of effort.
At first your efforts won’t get their ATTN but when you get to the point you are calling the telemarketer at their personal home telephone number you will get a bunch of help to get your number of the list.
You will have to engage them as if you are interested. Hanging up or acting frustrated is the wrong move. Don’t waste your time asking to be taken off the list. That does not work.
Your ultimate goal is to get the individual telemarketer to give you the name of the company that supplied his company the list. In case you are not getting the drift of this, the individual you get your hooks into is going to be shocked you tracked him to his personal life. And he will be motivated to help you.
He may bumb you to his supervisor which is fine. That super will likely try to threaten you telling what you are doing is illegal. It is not. Be calm, polite and insist ant.
Don’t settle for anything less than the number of the company that sold him your number. He will promise to take your number off their system. Don’t agree to that. You want the main list number.
When you get to that company you will find it easy to get to the person that has the hand on the switch that shuts off your number. They are not used to dealing with calls from the public. When I got this far I could sense he was surprised I got to him.
Be nice. Explain the disruption to your life. Ask him to remove your number from all lists. He has some access to be able to effect that change.
Your calls will then stop. Worked for me and it was actually fun tracking it back to the source.
Oh, fighting back on those calls can be so fun. In the end you can get them to stop but it takes a bit of effort.
At first your efforts won’t get their ATTN but when you get to the point you are calling the telemarketer at their personal home telephone number you will get a bunch of help to get your number of the list.
You will have to engage them as if you are interested. Hanging up or acting frustrated is the wrong move. Don’t waste your time asking to be taken off the list. That does not work.
Your ultimate goal is to get the individual telemarketer to give you the name of the company that supplied his company the list. In case you are not getting the drift of this, the individual you get your hooks into is going to be shocked you tracked him to his personal life. And he will be motivated to help you.
He may bumb you to his supervisor which is fine. That super will likely try to threaten you telling what you are doing is illegal. It is not. Be calm, polite and insist ant.
Don’t settle for anything less than the number of the company that sold him your number. He will promise to take your number off their system. Don’t agree to that. You want the main list number.
When you get to that company you will find it easy to get to the person that has the hand on the switch that shuts off your number. They are not used to dealing with calls from the public. When I got this far I could sense he was surprised I got to him.
Be nice. Explain the disruption to your life. Ask him to remove your number from all lists. He has some access to be able to effect that change.
Your calls will then stop. Worked for me and it was actually fun tracking it back to the source.