Just ran to catch the d*mn phone and it was some stupid auto dialing credit card scam calling from 929-200-9110. If this was only the first or second time it wouldn’t be worthwhile commenting. Asking for a human and requesting your number be taken off has not effect as they just keep on calling. See the following link for other happy consumer comments on this company.
If anyone else is bothered by these or other dimwits, I encourage you to register your number and file a complaint at the National Do Not Call List website lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/index-eng
I’m on the fence about the federal Do-Not-Call registry… I dislike telemarketers as much as the next guy, but I’m a little bit cynical about the whole thing.
The government assembles a list of phone numbers, and forwards them to the telemarketing associations… now those groups have lists of valid phone numbers. Even if they don’t exploit that to their own benefit, I can only assume they’d sell the lists to other companies that are based outside of Canada.
[quote]Professor Michael Geist, author of iOptOut.ca, an authority on technology, Internet and copyright law and holder of the prestigious Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa has criticized the changes adopted in the amended Act. He observes that the legislation contains too many exemptions. Geist expresses particular concern about the extent and duration of the existing business relationship exception.
In November 2008, it was reported that the CRTC had received thousands of complaints from Canadians about the implementation of the Do Not Call List. People reported that they had actually experienced a notable increase in the number of calls since registering for the list, and were starting to get calls at cellular phone numbers that had never received telemarketing calls before.[17]
In January 2009, numerous media and consumer advocacy organizations reported that anyone can use false information pretending to be a telemarketer and download the list for a $50 fee. It only took their reporter ten minutes to do so. The list is likely being downloaded and used as a telemarketing list overseas, where there’s little that can be done as the CRTC has no jurisdiction outside of Canada. [18][19]
On February 2, 2009, A Toronto Star headline[20] labelled the CRTC’s do-not-call list a “disaster”, and the article recommended Parliament return to the original version of Bill C-37 by eliminating all exemptions. It further recommended cross-border cooperation to resolve jurisdictional issues and immediate tough enforcement to send a strong signal to violators.[/quote]
I’ve been on the list for about a year, and in that time I have received one call, down from 3 - 5 per week. I informed the telemarketer that I was on the Do Not Call Registry and that I would prefer they not call me again. The caller apologized 3 times before I hung up.
As for offshore telemarketers creating a false business front in order to purchase a list of people who will be hostile to any sales pitch… Why not just have the computer auto-dial numbers at random, or in sequence and at least have a chance greater than zero that the caller would be receptive.
Sure, maybe it’s possible to cheat the system through that loophole, but if I was paying overseas long-distance rates making cold calls, it just might be worth my while to spend the $50 so I could improve efficiency by avoiding those numbers. Just a thought.
I’m not sure if its the same number but I received the same type of call. I called them back and told them to “FUCK OFF” and not to call me again…I haven’t heard from them since. Maybe thats better than the do not call list!
This is the first I have heard of the do not call registry, but several other entertaining if not effective strategies are to hand the phone to anyone in your home with either Alzheimer’s or dementia and let them talk. Another is to ask the caller to “hold on just one minute, I’ll be right with you”, then leave the phone connected and put it down somewhere or toss it on the bed or whatever for ten or fifteen minutes or so. The other is to let them know this is a really bad time, and try and get the callers name and home number to call them back later. Ha.
When i worked for a cellphone call center, tons of people would email in asking how to get them off the list, one guy wrote in and said he had a solution, his solution was to talk really quietly and ask them to speak up, most of the time they would and then he would BLAST a air horn into the microphone of the phone LOL! that would so suck for the person on the other end.
Telemarketers use the same kind of logic as e-mail spammers.
If you confirm that you answer your phone and are a human, your phone number is more valuable and more likely to remain on their list (and be sold to others). You confirm this by answering your phone, by calling them and asking to be removed from their list, or even better, by putting yourself on the do-not-call list.
The exceptions to the do-not-call list are so broad, that they cover most of the telemarketing calls you’re likely to get anyway. So if you add yourself to the list, and the marketers have this list, then they’re going to call you.
How do you stop them? Don’t answer your phone. Put one of those not-in-service tones on your answering machine. Whatever you do, don’t ever agree to a survey or buy a product or anything else from a telemarketer. Then you’ve confirmed that not only do you answer your phone, but you’re willing to fall for their crap.
I’m beddy sorry but Mr Smith he did moved. I am Gumjit Kurpa from Nepal could you please make me this same outstanding offer? Call me at my office 929-200-9110 tomorrow please, I will tell everyone there of your most pleasing deal. You will give me further discount if I sell five or ten others? 929-200-9110 remember. Goodbye now please.
