Posted on 07/06/2006 8:53:37 PM PDT by NerdDad
Just don't call 867-5309.
"could be an NRA-outsourced solicitation."
NRA Life Member for 30+ years. I don't get their calls. Funny how that works. Paid them $250 for a life-membership and haven't heard from them since.
Can't you tape several sheets together in a loop and let it run through the machine?
Hmmmm.
Sounds like a lead, at least: they occasionally have "Urgent Legislative Updates", etc. "Do Not Call" exempts companies from which you've done bidness in the past.
"Sounds like a night at your house could get quite interesting."
Hey, when you're dodging bill collectors, you get inventive. Now that we're nearly debt-free CDBEAR loves to get calls from credit-card companies. She toys with them like a Viking Kitty toying with a troll. Then she asks them if they've ever heard of a guy named Dave Ramsey. Shortly after that, the call ends.
This reminds me of a time about 8 or 9 years ago when a telemarketer was harrassing me daily and even late at night. They would just laugh and say they were untouchable and then hang up and call again over and over. After having this go on for several days, I decided to take action. While I couldn't get directly to the telemarketing office, I called the company that hired the telemarketer and got the name of the CEO. I then called his office and told the secretary I had an emergency message for the president. When I got him on the line I unloaded on him and told him I would be calling his office 20 times day until the telemarketing harrassment stopped. To make the point very clear, I told him his home phone number and everything I knew about him from the Internet like where he went to school and where he had a residence, etc. He then agreed to have it stopped and he also gave me the name and number of the telemarketer president. So I then called up that guy and he was also totally stunned I was able to track him down. I told him I had more than enough information on him from the Internet to make his life totally miserable unless my name got taken off their calling list. I never got a call from that telemarketer again. Sometimes you just have to fight back.
This could also be someone looking for fax lines. They will call all numbers in a prefix and list fax lines. Then the list is sold to toner vendors and other of this ilk. If they call back again and again, they are also supid.
The "walking dude" is a character in the Stephen King novel, "The Stand."
Keep the faxes you get and send them to the FCC -- unwanted faxing is prohibited.
The FCC does go after them.
I was getting tons of unsolicited faxes and was at my wits end, then I searched and found this. Then I just bundled the faxes and mailed them to the FCC -- it stopped them in its tracks, the unwanted faxes slowed to a trickle, I think it's time for another little carepackage to the FCC.
Go to this site, they have all the info:
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/unwantedfaxes.html
" but someday there will only be one number..."
That sounds confusing. Like a cross between "there can be only one" and Ice-T's thing about how there will only be one race in a few generations -- we're all gonna be beige.
Need to try this.
You understand WRONG..........the VAST majority do not follow that rule or any rules for that matter.
Collection agency employees have a tendency to be extremely rude and crude people.....I dealt with one just a few weeks ago. He started out lying about how he got my cell phone number and ended the conversation by calling me a liar. My attorney is now handling the situation because I don't owe the money the liar claims I owe.
Some automated out-bound calls are programmed to hang up if a human response is received. If you DON'T answer, it may leave a recorded message.
Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to?
You give me something I can hold on to.
I know you think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and number on the wall
Jenny, I got your number,
I need to make you mine.
Jenny, don't change your number,
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
8-6-7-5-3-0-9 (8-6-7-5-3-0-9)
whos dave ramsey?
Just called and left a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG message (at their cost, of course).
I'll leave a few more over the next few days...
We have neither caller-ID nor an answering machine. CDBEAR the budget nazi says it's not in the budget.
I'll try to head off my babydoll on this one. Dave Ramsey is a nationally syndicated financial counselor and radio personality. He's been on a number of national news/talk programs. He is a big proponent of being completely debt-free. He's been a real lifesaver for us. If you are interested, FReepmail me or CDBEAR and we'll evangelize/pimp off thread.
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