A new low in telemarketing

[Zeke]

I get a recorded call for contractor's insurance and I wait for the "press 9 to be off the list comment." What did I get instead? Some azzhole named Kiran Hill with another recorded message that he's running for Congress.

I look this up and there is someone by that name running for Congress in NV. Not much on Google. He's on FB.

So the question is whether this is a fake campaign or shell campaign only to raise funds? Anyone from NV know anything about this?

He thinks I'm going to send money to NV?

BTW, the contractors board insists on publishing my phone number and the number of every contractor in the state. My full name including my middle name as shown on my DL is there. Even as a retired contractor, the info remains.

Nice, huh?

[Rick V]

Add your number do not call registry. It is violation for them to call you and use a recorded message. Every time you get one of those calls you report it. They eventually do stop, at least for me they did.

[red-beard]

Not for political calls. They are exempt

[Rick V]

When the call comes in as contractors insurance. Yeah Sick-Um

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by red-beard

Not for political calls. They are exempt

Originally Posted by Rick V

When the call comes in as contractors insurance. Yeah Sick-Um

The DNCL is not working. The originators of the call are most likely off shore. That whole DNCL is a joke. It was circumvented before the ink was dry on the bill.

I've never had a layered call like this one. That was the point.

[Rick Lee]

I don't answer many calls with numbers I don't recognize. But when I do, if there's any kind of pause before the other party says anything, I just hang up. I never get telemarketing calls that way.

[dw1]

For those rare instances when a live person comes on the line either giving the telemarketing spiel or after it, I find keeping an air horn by the telephone helpful.

For the refi calls, I ask whether multiple fraud and felony charges, as well as multiple bankruptcies, make any difference.

For the fraudulent "extended warranty" scams that were popular a year or so ago, I actually started cursing at them (you lying sack of... etc.) and I actually got the solicitor to curse back at me. My objective was to convince the solicitor that the job just wasn't worth it.

What is also interesting is asking whether the solicitor has taken Jesus into his/her heart as their personal savior. I don't do this often, because it is disrepectful to the sincerely devout out there, but this gets some interesting reactions from the Indian phone bank employees.

For political surveys, answer every question as "yes". Or every one as "no".

These type of phone calls don't always have to be irritating. They can be a source of amusement and/or stress relief.

[Joe Bob]

I used to get spam faxes at 4 and 5 am......at my home. I had a few licenses with the Dept of Consumer Affairs. Same crap as Zeke.