Do Not Call Registry
Oct. 17th, 2004 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaWe've been getting a lot of "Mr. Nobody" calls over the last couple of days--calls where the phone rings, we screen it through the answering machine, and whomever it is hangs up without a message. After the call I just received, I suspect it's because the telemarketers have just implemented (or just gotten around to targeting us with) a new protected workaround of the Do Not Call Registry.
I was sitting at my desk when the phone rang. I picked it up and got a recording. The recording offered me work as a movie extra if I would just call a certain local number. The recording didn't mention the name of the company from which it was calling, of course, and we don't have caller ID on our land line. (All the mobile phones do, of course; it's hard to get a mobile without caller ID nowadays.) I wrote down the number and called it and got another completely anonymous recording directing me to a toll-free number; this number explained that registering for the service would cost $21.95.
So I went to the National Do Not Call Registry page and filed a complaint. I don't expect it to do any good, though, because to make a complaint, you need either the name of the company or the phone number the call came from. I entered the number I was referred to, but I'm sure that the company which owns that number will just point out that they never made an outgoing call to me and will evade punishment.
They should just die.
I was sitting at my desk when the phone rang. I picked it up and got a recording. The recording offered me work as a movie extra if I would just call a certain local number. The recording didn't mention the name of the company from which it was calling, of course, and we don't have caller ID on our land line. (All the mobile phones do, of course; it's hard to get a mobile without caller ID nowadays.) I wrote down the number and called it and got another completely anonymous recording directing me to a toll-free number; this number explained that registering for the service would cost $21.95.
So I went to the National Do Not Call Registry page and filed a complaint. I don't expect it to do any good, though, because to make a complaint, you need either the name of the company or the phone number the call came from. I entered the number I was referred to, but I'm sure that the company which owns that number will just point out that they never made an outgoing call to me and will evade punishment.
They should just die.
