Comments on: National Do (not) Call List http://www.howardchui.com/2009/01/15/national-do-not-call-list/ HowardChui.com - Your mobile phone community and resource Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:22:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John http://www.howardchui.com/2009/01/15/national-do-not-call-list/comment-page-1/#comment-19782 John Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:40:27 +0000 http://www.howardchui.com/?p=1115#comment-19782 Lesley, you're right. The story is absolutely false. This is not just misleading. It's fraudulent. I'd suggest (if you reorded a phone number or company) that you lodge a complaint on the inident on the dncl web site. That is the official site for processing telemarketing complaints. Also see phonebusters for lodging complaints on scams. As for getting more telemarketing calls... I get none now. None! BEACAUSE of the dncl. I got a couple of scam calls like everyone else a ouple of months ago. But those calls could have happened with or without the dncl. Those are scam artists. They could have used an autodialer to call me. And thanks to being registered on the dncl I knew that the calls were fraudulent, as did everyone else, and that got things rolling on stopping those guys. The important this is to lodge the complaints. That's what gets things going. Where a prosecution can happen, telemarketers get fined per complaint! Plus you have more rights to prosecute these guys if you are on the list. Lesley, you’re right. The story is absolutely false.

This is not just misleading. It’s fraudulent. I’d suggest (if you reorded a phone number or company) that you lodge a complaint on the inident on the dncl web site. That is the official site for processing telemarketing complaints. Also see phonebusters for lodging complaints on scams.

As for getting more telemarketing calls… I get none now. None! BEACAUSE of the dncl. I got a couple of scam calls like everyone else a ouple of months ago. But those calls could have happened with or without the dncl. Those are scam artists. They could have used an autodialer to call me. And thanks to being registered on the dncl I knew that the calls were fraudulent, as did everyone else, and that got things rolling on stopping those guys. The important this is to lodge the complaints. That’s what gets things going. Where a prosecution can happen, telemarketers get fined per complaint!

Plus you have more rights to prosecute these guys if you are on the list.

]]> By: Lesley Cluff http://www.howardchui.com/2009/01/15/national-do-not-call-list/comment-page-1/#comment-19272 Lesley Cluff Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:28:11 +0000 http://www.howardchui.com/?p=1115#comment-19272 Here's a new one I wonder if others have heard! Just had a call - we are on the list - so hubby says to the caller, do you not subscribe to the DoNotCall list? He was told that the list no longer exists --- get this line-- The management of the list and list was sold to an outside company which has now gone backrupt so there is no longer a Do Not Call list! Anyone who didn't happen to be within ten feet of the conversation sittingbeside a computer who knows what Google is, might have believed that. Hubby said thank you for that info, please do not call again. I googled it. No such sale or bankruptcy. But its a cute story to hand to people! Anyone else heard of this one yet or was it just a creative telemarketer! Here’s a new one I wonder if others have heard! Just had a call – we are on the list – so hubby says to the caller, do you not subscribe to the DoNotCall list? He was told that the list no longer exists — get this line–
The management of the list and list was sold to an outside company which has now gone backrupt so there is no longer a Do Not Call list!
Anyone who didn’t happen to be within ten feet of the conversation sittingbeside a computer who knows what Google is, might have believed that. Hubby said thank you for that info, please do not call again. I googled it. No such sale or bankruptcy.
But its a cute story to hand to people! Anyone else heard of this one yet or was it just a creative telemarketer!

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