If you hang up, don’t answer or block the originator’s calls, they just move on, changing numbers now and then to get past the blockers. If you want it fixed right, DIY...
Here's one fun and satisfying method aimed at the "Lower your interest rate" scum:
1) Agree that you have over $4000 in CC debt at over 10% interest.
2) Had to 'find' my CC - took a few minutes.
3) Read the numbers (bogus - but write them down so you can repeat) slowly. When asked to repeat because the numbers don't work, read slowly back again, but change a 3 to an 8 (darn, don't have my glasses...).
4) Repeat until you sense impatience on the operator's part. Just before they hang up (this timing is a real art), read them, the 1-800 number on the back of the card – oddly, mine reads "1-800-National Do-Not-Call Registry".
This last time I had them on the phone for 10 minutes - this is close to a record, but I keep trying to best my previous time. GREAT SPORT!
The "Gummint" created the DNCR, but didn't give it any teeth. It is up to all of us to bite the telemarketers where it hurts by wasting their time, and, maybe more importantly, make them suspicious that every sucker they talk to could be a punker. When they start hanging up on REAL suckers, then their business model has failed...
If you hang up, don’t answer or block the originator’s calls, they just move on, changing numbers now and then to get past the blockers. If you want it fixed right, DIY...
Here's one fun and satisfying method aimed at the "Lower your interest rate" scum:
1) Agree that you have over $4000 in CC debt at over 10% interest.
2) Had to 'find' my CC - took a few minutes.
3) Read the numbers (bogus - but write them down so you can repeat) slowly. When asked to repeat because the numbers don't work, read slowly back again, but change a 3 to an 8 (darn, don't have my glasses...).
4) Repeat until you sense impatience on the operator's part. Just before they hang up (this timing is a real art), read them, the 1-800 number on the back of the card – oddly, mine reads "1-800-National Do-Not-Call Registry".
This last time I had them on the phone for 10 minutes - this is close to a record, but I keep trying to best my previous time. GREAT SPORT!
The "Gummint" created the DNCR, but didn't give it any teeth. It is up to all of us to bite the telemarketers where it hurts by wasting their time, and, maybe more importantly, make them suspicious that every sucker they talk to could be a punker. When they start hanging up on REAL suckers, then their business model has failed...
Caller type: Telemarketer
Number: 860-237-5624