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Caller ID: Do you really know who's calling?
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| 8/30/2004
| Ben Chamy
Posted on 08/31/2004 5:34:50 PM PDT by wjersey
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:34:51 PM PDT
by
wjersey
To: wjersey
If the collection agencies try using this service they are stepping in deep doo-doo. Consumer Protection laws regarding collection agency practices/behavior forbid use of deceitful or fraudulent acts.
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:36:58 PM PDT
by
BullDog108
(Know Your Enemy! http://bvml.org/webmaster/enemy.html)
To: wjersey
My answering machine says, "Please leave a message. I screen calls"
If you don't leave a message, you don't talk to me.
The added bonus is my MIL will not leave a message so I never have to talk to her!!!!!!!!
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:38:17 PM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Morologus es!)
To: wjersey
So a creditor could have the name "mom" and cathc unsuspecting people? Sounds illegal
To: wjersey
As the Internet becomes more transportable, home telephones will become more archaic, unnecessary, and unwanted.
The telemarketers will always be there as vermin are, but good entrepenerial capitalists will find ways to thwart them.
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:39:34 PM PDT
by
Radix
(This isn't a Tag Line? Well, could you point me to one?)
To: wjersey
Crap! Right now I don't talk to anyone named "OUT OF AREA" or "PRIVATE CALL" or who has a 900 number or an 800 number or who has the same name as a state.
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:40:49 PM PDT
by
VadeRetro
To: wjersey
Callers from India use this a lot. I might get a number from the states, but on the phone is a telemarketer from India.
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:42:17 PM PDT
by
gattaca
(Great things can be accomplished if you don't care who gets the credit. Ronald Reagan)
To: wjersey
Caught a new trick about a week ago. A company left a message on my cell phone, which when I listened to it called the company back.
They had encoded the dialing codes into their message to me. What ticks me off is that I will be charged for the call.
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:43:35 PM PDT
by
ProudVet77
(Proud to be a FReeper)
To: wjersey
I don't get many telemarketing calls anymore. Thankfully...
Most people who disturb me during dinner time are people I know, students, family, etc...
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:44:44 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: wjersey
This sounds like just another setup for more fees. After they deploy the Star38 product, the phone companies will offer, for a fee, the Star38 Override feature on home phones.
-PJ
To: netmilsmom
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:45:04 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: wjersey
Well, if some telemarketer uses deceit to get people to pick up the phone thinking that a family member is calling then I don't think they'll get too far.
To: Political Junkie Too
As if we need MORE fees on a bill
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:45:30 PM PDT
by
cyborg
(http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
To: netmilsmom
HA! HA! HA! Same here! Even with the "MIL"! :-)
Caller ID my eye! We've got it....but the saying here in my house is, "TALK TO THE BOX!"
To: BullDog108
Consumer Protection laws regarding collection agency practices/behavior forbid use of deceitful or fraudulent acts. I wonder if it could violate the identity theft laws when a "familiar phone number" is used to misrepresent the origin of the call.
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:48:36 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: wjersey
If they don't want to tell who they are, don't call. I don't have caller ID its a rip off. Most companies have "out of area" or some 800,888 or other number you can't call back anyway. It's ludicrous to spend money on something that doesn't pay for itself, somehow. You can set caller ID so that they have to display their number or they can't call you. Phone services usually do not give you a good return on the cost, unless you have a business.
Why pay for long distance if you have a cell phone that gives you free calling.
People call here and I don't recognize their voice, I tell them "whoever they ask for" is UNAVAILABLE, may I take a message. I don't talk to salesman, every Fred, Dick and Susan who wants a donation, and I don't take surveys that take 15-20 min of my time. People waste hours monthly on unnecessary phone calls.
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:48:40 PM PDT
by
Kackikat
To: VadeRetro
or who has the same name as a state Great, you just missed a call from Miss Delaware.
To: netmilsmom
My answering machine says, "Please leave a message. I screen calls"
If it ain't broke don't fix it! I have used an answering machine for decades. Forget about caller ID and all the other gimmicks...
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:51:45 PM PDT
by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1/5 1st Mar Div. Nam 69&70 Semper Fi http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com)
To: ProudVet77
If I ever have time off from Marketing my highly successful and wildly popular tasty treats on a stick, I think I could market a product the reverses charges at the touch of a button (ie tellemarketers pay for the phone call plus my phone minutes)
Extended options may include $9.00 per second for bothering me.
This Free Enterprise System just ROCKS, why Retire? This is too much fun.
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posted on
08/31/2004 5:51:52 PM PDT
by
TexasTransplant
(I made my Fortune selling Sugar Coated Cat Turds on a Stick at the DNC Convention)
To: Larry Lucido
She was probably calling to tell me to stop drooling over her picture.
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