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How to Block Telemarketers
Thanks to the Federal Trade Commission’s National Do Not Call Registry, you can make salespeople calling your home phone a thing of the past. (Exceptions are calls from, or on behalf of, political organizations, charities, legitimate telephone surveyors, or companies with which you have an existing business relationship, or those to whom you’ve provided express permission to call.) In the unlikely event there are some telemarketing calls you don’t mind receiving, you can provide those companies written permission to call you. You may include all of your personal phones, including mobile phones, and the service is free! Your registration is effective for five years.
You can put yourself on the Registry list at https://www.donotcall.gov/ or call toll free at +1-888-382-1222 from your home phone. Once you have been on the register for 31 days, should a telemarketer call, you can file a complaint at the Registry’s Website, the same place where you registered your personal numbers. To file a complaint, you must know either the name or telephone number of the company that called you as well as the date the company called you.
Be alert for scams involving the Registry. You might be contacted by someone by phone or email offering to put your name on the Do Not Call Registry for a fee. As the Registry is a free service of your federal government, the FTC does not allow this. Websites or phone or email solicitations that claim they can or will register a consumer’s name or phone number on the National Do Not Call Registry — especially those that charge a fee — are almost certainly scams.
Some things to remember:
- You will have to re-register whenever you get a new phone number; the system automatically removes numbers that have been disconnected and reassigned
- Should your current number be disconnected for any reason, you will have to re-register it when you are reconnected
- Changing calling plans or the billing name on your telephone account could have the same effect as having the number disconnected, and you will have to re-register.
There is a persistent rumor that a database of personal cell phone numbers is being released to telemarketers. Even if it were true, which it isn’t, the No Call Registry can also put your cell phone number off limits to telemarketers.
How to Prank a Telemarketer
Some people, though, prefer confronting telemarketers rather than blocking them. Here are a few ideas:
- Talk incoherently.
- Play deaf or say that you have a bad connection.
- Talk gibberish.
- Try to order a large pepperoni pizza.
- Repeatedly dial the phone. Mutter that it isn’t ringing
- Try to sell the telemarketer something.
- Pretend to be really interested, then say “no”.
- Keep crackers near the phone. When a telemarketer calls eat the crackers. Chew loudly, make slurping noises, and talk with your mouth full.
Go ahead and share your pranks using the form at the bottom of this page.
Are Telemarketers People Too?
The caller may be a single mother who is barely managing to keep it together with the only job she could find or a guy who’s trying to support a family on the lousy income a telemarketer makes. It’s a rough world out there for the wage slave, and it keeps getting rougher. So please have a heart. Don’t be a jerk. Telemarketers would prefer that you simply hang up on them than have you mess with them.
I work as a Receptionist in an office, and I get the same telemarketing call about three times a month (something about “yellow pages online…scam, turns out). These people wanted to know my name, month/date of birth, job title, and age. The first time I spoke to them, I actually gave them that info…yep, like a moron! And stayed on the line with them for 20 minutes for who-knows-what. Eventually, once they put me on hold (and being confused and young, I held) I hung up on them, and they called right back and asked, “[my name], what happened there??” OMG.
Anyway, now I hang up immediately once I recognize who it is. I can’t screw with telemarketers while at work, unfortunately. But I discover that if they find out you’re underage, they don’t want to deal with you. So maybe that’s worth a try to keep them away.
Yea as my name says i am an ex telemarketer… i sold xm radio subscriptions for people coming off there trial period now the best thing for you to say to THEM is put me on your dnc (do not call) list they HAVE to read you a dnc closure then you can hang up… sometimes it takes about 30days for them to stop… don’t ask why i think it’s kinda retarded but yea so be it…. but i still LOVE to mess with telemarketers like for instance have a room mate pic up another phone in the house so he or she is on the line then contradict person A with person B it all gets really confussing and they get really mad… person A has to act like they don’t know what is going on or who that person is… just have person A get mad at the telemarketer and accuse HIM of being the person on the other line… just tell them that the person B’s voice sounds like them regardless of gender or race… it’s really funny…. either that or you can always add … your accent isn’t fooling me i know your from zimbabwea or how ever you spell that haha there are alot of fun things…. me? i would LOVE to get calls everyday from telemarketers but unfortunatly it only happens everyonce in a while
This industry needs to go the way of the dinosaurs. It is fraught with fakers, criminals, ID thieves, and personally I don’t see that it serves an purpose for the good of humanity. Those people in the industry need to get another job. Preferably an honest one. I want you to hang up. If you get a prerecorded message that has a fake business name and no call back phone number, it is a dishonest business. If you have caller ID, file a complaints with the FCC, the FTC and your state attorney general. Now, I want to propose a law about the setting up of boiler rooms, where these obnoxious phone calls originate. I wrote my local congressperson that legislation should be drawn up so that companies that set up boiler rooms either with phone lines or equipment must have several items from the entity that wants a boiler room:
1, the entity must have an IRS tax nubmer 2. the entity must be a licensed business in the state that the boiler room is set up physically, 3. the entity must sign an agreement with the supplier not to violate FCC regulations and that the purpose of the business is not fraud or ID theft and 4. the entity must put up a hefty bond for say at least a million that will be forfeit if it violates the written agreement. If you think this is a good idea, please pass it on to your congressperson. The reason that I came up with this idea is that I contacted one of those suppliers and they told me that they take no responsibility if their equipment is used for criminal purposes and that tells me that these suppliers are also unethical. They told me to go get a subpoena. I also talked to the state attorney general’s office and they said only legislation could change things. So let’s change things. Let’s make it harder for the bad guys. Pass on the word and remember to hang up Don’t mess with folks. If they are criminals they could be dangerous. AND or heaven’s sake don’t let them have your address. You don’t want want them in your house. HANG UP!
I had a guy that called every day for about a month, what seemed to work for me was telling they guy that i was on the do not call list and asking him not to call again. But i did have some fun with him, once i answered the phone posing as a 7-11 clerk and asking him if he wanted a slurpie he got really mad and i just hung up on him.
In a 2 week time span I received a call DAILY about some hydro deal…Every time I would tell them to take me off their list…Finally I decided enough was enough. I politely told the broad that couldn’t even speak English that I was going to leave my phone off the hook for the rest of day and tie up HER line!!! AND I DID IT!!! Hopefully I’m off their list now…(lost time is lost business for them)
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See i am creative when it comes to telemarketers ill jsut randomly start talking about a tv show or ask them how there day went and if that dont work i just turn on the radio (really bad music that no one likes) then leave the phone there till the song is done and they normaly hang up by the time its done.
When I get that highly anticipated phone call from some guy with a New Delhi accent named “Lance”, I’ll let them get a few lines in then I just start blurting out phrases in Spanish… “Como estas? Buenos tardes! Como se llama?” You know, stuff like that. A couple phrases in, and the guy pauses. “Do you speak Spanish?” To which I’ll rely, “Si!” “Do you speak English?” “Si.” You can keep these morons occupied for two or three minutes, just interrupting them with some first semester Spanish. One time “Lance” stated, “I will get you someone who speaks Spanish.” So I continued this silliness with her, she immediately sized up what was going on and hung up… on me!
I am also a telemarketer, so here’s a tip to get rid of them; tell them to put you on their do not call list. This is different than any other call list, this is their specific call list so that specific company does not call you back. Don’t worry guys- I’m quitting my job.
I have done most of what everyone else has here, the funnest was telling one guy that I would buy his drugs if he gave me his home phone number. He had a number of arguements why he could not give it to me but I easily countered each one. In frustration he finally said “I think you are full of c**p!” I said, “Now THAT would be too much of a coincidence!”
But, growing weary of the incessant calls to refill my non-existant prescriptions, I came up with another solution. I connected a fax machine to the line. If the caller ID shows the call coming from one of my favorite pharmacies, they get to listen to fax music. What is amazing is the same people still call my fax almost daily.