National DO NOT CALL Registry

[_F7_]

Has gone live. You can register your phone number(s) online or by calling (phone number is on the web page).

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/donotcall/index.html

w00t!!!

[Necrophobic]

Cool... server must be busy as hell though. I couldn't get to the http://donotcall.gov/ page to sign up. I'll keep trying.

Since I moved to Cali I've been getting about 10 telemarketing calls per day. All unavailable numbers. I just put privacy manager on my phone, so unavailable or private number will not ring through. Well worth the 4 bucks a month, I now get maybe 1 a day. To get through they have to show a phone number, now I can call em back and mess around with them. :)

Telemarketershttp://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/rough/flackwhore.gif

[UltraJounin]

'On My Way!'

[HortonsWho]

We registered with our state's list that went live a few months ago. 98% of the calls stopped. :)

[DagnyTaggart]

I can't get to the site either.

Wow! Congress actually did something that just about everyone likes! What a great way to makes us feel more satisfied with them given the bum economy. Maybe our representatives and the President can keep their jobs by making a "do not send spam e-mail to this e-mail address" list. They should pass that legislation just before election time. Then I won't get any more of those great "get bigger penis and balls" or "woman giving blow job to farm animals animated gif" spam ads anymore!

Of course, now thousands of telemarketers will be out on the streets. No more phone solicitations for "free magazine subscriptions with $4/week delivery fees (lol)" scams!

Kill e-mail Spam next!


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Dagny Taggart
Administrator for The Gamebox.net (http://forums.thegamebox.net)'s new CTF-2 server.
[CSHP] UTCTF2.thegamebox.net (166.70.124.87)

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[Necrophobic]

Originally posted by DagnyTaggart
I can't get to the site either.



Yea I still cant either...

[DagnyTaggart]

Very Scary Thought

Once the telemarketers can't reach us with phone calls, will they have to resort to other forms of media...like e-mail spam? Will we get deluged in spam once the new law kicks in?

(I know, I know, everyone's going to say "shut up Dagny! Don't give them any ideas!")

Maybe I should try to get a business method patent on "a process for salvaging a telemarketing business comprising training telemarketer sales agents to identify e-mail addresses and to then e-mail advertisements to said e-mail addresses."

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Dagny Taggart
Administrator for The Gamebox.net (http://forums.thegamebox.net)'s new CTF-2 server.
[CSHP] UTCTF2.thegamebox.net (166.70.124.87)

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[Idle Idol]

we've had the telezapper (http://www.telezapper.com/default.asp) in our house for quite some time, and it's helped a great deal. My parents have had the same telephone number since they got this house...and their 30 year loan has been done and paid off for a long time already now. So between them, and children using this number for that long a time...we were on every damn call list in the world...twice. After we got the zapper thingamahoozer, our calls droped DRAMATICALLY. the thing really does work. For the first few months, we'd get calls where you answer and then you just hear a hangup on the other line as it forces the call to drop...then that stops as they give up trying. The only ones we get now are those REALLY persistent folks that have a team of operators who call totally manually without computer assisted dialing, and those are just fun as you get to yell at them. :)

Not that i am not signing up on the do not call list, it's long overdue, but i'm just mentioning... heh.

--Idle, kinda misses giving telemarketers hell

[Infide]

Originally posted by DagnyTaggart
[b]Very Scary Thought

Once the telemarketers can't reach us with phone calls, will they have to resort to other forms of media...like e-mail spam? Will we get deluged in spam once the new law kicks in?

(I know, I know, everyone's going to say "shut up Dagny! Don't give them any ideas!")

Maybe I should try to get a business method patent on "a process for salvaging a telemarketing business comprising training telemarketer sales agents to identify e-mail addresses and to then e-mail advertisements to said e-mail addresses."



How about this:
Everyone pays for email. Like stamps. If I send Dagny an email, I owe Dagny 10 cents. Dagny sends me an email back, now we owe each other equal amounts, debt cancelled.

For the most part we send just about as much email as we recieve so the cost to us would be negligible.

Imagine the cost for spam wizard man who sends out 60,000 emails at once? We can kill spam, just takes guts.

Although I can already hear the screams of protest "Email should be free!"...

[HortonsWho]

In case you were wondering... most of the annoying calls we got were from banks, credit cards and AT&T... they are exempt from this ban:

Will All Telemarketing Calls Stop If I Register?
Q: If I register my number on the National Do Not Call Registry, will it stop all telemarketing calls?


A: No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call Registry will stop most, but not all, telemarketing calls. Some businesses are exempt from the national registry and still can call you even if you place your number on it. Exempt businesses include:


long-distance phone companies
airlines
banks and credit unions; and
the business of insurance, to the extent that it is regulated by state law.


However, many telemarketing calls are placed by professional telemarketing companies, and even if the company whose goods or services are being sold is exempt, the telemarketing company may be covered.

You may still receive calls from political organizations, charities, telephone surveyors or companies with which you have an existing business relationship.

The FCC has initiated a rulemaking proceeding that would extend the National Do Not Call Registry to many of the businesses that are exempt from FTC coverage.

[UltraJounin]

MMMM KAY... SO WHERES THE NATIONAL DO NOT EMAIL LIST!!!!?!?!??!?!?!?

[King Mango]

Bump...

I just found this list this afternoon and rather than repost here's a bump for anyone else not yet aware.

[LittleNoochie]

Thanks for the bump. :rockon:

[radio667]

Done , and Done :D Thankz F7 !!

[Airlea]

Three Little Words That Work !!


(1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."

Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off
(instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each
telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room
sales would grind to a halt.

Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone,
you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has
efficiently completed its task.

These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.



(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one
on the other end?

This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls
and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.

This technique is used to determine the best time of day for
a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.

What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there,
is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!!


(3) Junk Mail Help:

When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return
these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw
their own junk mail away.

When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything
from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw
away the return envelope.

Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right?
It costs them more than the regular 37cents postage "IF" and
when they receive them back.

It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was
around 50 cents before! the last increase and it is according to
the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other
junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return
envelopes.

Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express.
Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything
else that day, then just send them their blank application back!

If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name
isn't on anything you send them.

You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to
just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.

The banks and credit card companies are currently
getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need
to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!

Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that
e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they
need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !

If enough people follow these tips, it will work----
I have been doing this for years, and I get very little
junk mail anymore.

[King Mango]

you are brilliant

[Mickey Blue]

you are brilliant
Seconded, that is some bloody fantasticle advice, am working on the junk mail now LOL

Genius :beer:

[4No1AfR8]

you are brilliant
How come women do all the good thinking and have all the smart ideas?

See if that works here in europe too.
Thx Arlea.

[CyberFly]

My bank doesnt send me junkmail.
Only those things with my credit on it.
And that around 1 euro most of the time. :p