Another Telemarketer Nailed

Don't you hate it when you sit down to eat and some moron calls offering the latest sure fire money saver? Even though you are on the Do Not Call List? Yeah, me too. I take the time to report these cretins and I was notified today that, for the third time, information I have submitted along with my phone records was used to obtain a judgement against the telemarketer. This guy happens to be pretty notorious. His name is Noach Palatnik. The court found him guilty of violating eight counts of the Indiana Do Not Call List and fined him 11,072.87 on each count for a total judgement of $88,582.96. Not as much as the other two companies I helped nail but I'll take it. The law suit originally asked for more than $12.8 million. I have no idea how many other separate judgments were awadred. The Attorney General just indicated that 8 were awarded for my phone number. The suit was filed in 2013. Take that Noach!

http://www.law360.com/articles/45153...-robocall-suit

I used to just tell them to put me on the do not call list but since have decided to have fun.

So far my favorite was feigning to be very interested in a security company wanting to install a system for putting a sign in my yard. After talking to them a bit I pretended like someone came in the door, started shouting "No" several times and shot my gun next to the mouth piece a couple times. Changed my voice to a gruff tone and stated that he should've paid that money he owed.

Excellent Rick!

I had read that many States did not have the resources to follow up on complaints and prosecute these violators. Good do hear that your state gets after them. Last I heard in Texas a "Do Not Call List" violator is only in trouble if they call a lawyer with time on their hands. I resort mostly to speaking to them in fake foreign languages when they call. LOL I always answer my phones "Hu, grunt, cough, fart, spit…" They ask who am I speaking to, I say Mohammad, or Jose, or Wong or Your Mamma!, "quién es ousted?" "No speaky dah engishy"

"This is Mr. Wong"
"Mr. Wong who?"
"Mr. Wong Number, get off my phone line or I sue you!"

Way to go Rick!

I have to talk to Rachel (credit card services) a few times a couple of times a year.

Now I just say, "just a minute" and throw the phone on couch.

That's pretty impressive if it works.

Assuming a reasonable interpretation of "hundreds of robocalls" to be less than 999 that's over $12k per call. Given the number of telemarketing centers with DNC and robocalling violations in the tens and hundreds of thousands with comparatively little real consequence across the US that could send a very persuasive message.

Those idiots running the phony extended auto warranty scam where even autocalling 911 services.

Now if we could get political parties to not be excluded. ....

YOU, Rick, are my hero. SG

You make me blush. Only 10,000 more telemarketers to go!

hey Rick, what was your cut for reporting?

If they were smart they'd all be making sure your number isn't even maybe on their list.

My cut? In the notice they sent it says, "money collected under this judgement will be used to defray the costs of administering the Do Not Call list and enforcing the Do Not Call law." In other words, don't even bother asking.

One thing that has limited effectiveness with non-profits and political callers etc is to go to your phone providers website (land line or mobile) and add the last number that called you to the "block" list. However, many of these have a entire bank of numbers like that Rachel from Credit Card Services who is most likely overseas.

But if it is a local charity and they cannot be reasoned with politely not to call you this "may???" work. I am actually of afraid to in their face tick them off because they may just add me to a long list of other charities or whatever. Political parties get my name every time I vote so that is difficult to avoid. I am tempted to say "What I have only voted for the Purple Peace, Outer Space peace initiative party, write in candidates, DID SOMEONE CHANGE MY BALLOT?!!! Where is your party's local headquarters I'm going to bring my fellow Purple Peace people down there and protest this injustice." LOL. I have never actually done that, I would just fall down laughing half way through it.

Most people believe most other people are crazy so this is actually fairly easy to pull off.

You can usually turn on anonymous call rejection for those callers who turn off their caller ID and you can use call rejection to block specific numbers. Unfortunately, call rejection usually has a very limited set of numbers. My provider limits it to 12 numbers. Then I have to remove a number to add another. Today, it's easy enough to spoof calls so Caller ID shows a name and number that is fictitious. I'm to the point if I don't know you then you don't get answered. If it's important you had better leave a message.

I get at least 3 calls a day on my business/personal cell, from these scum. I rarely answer out of state callers unless I'm expecting a call from out of state. The never leave a message and if I do answer, they hang up. If I call back I get "the number has been disconnected" recording. I spent a few weeks reporting the numbers on the "do not call" web site and now I am completely burnt out. I block the numbers on my iphone and go about my business.

For the life of me, I cant figure out why they call and dont leave a message or hang-up when I answer, how does that benefit them?

I have tried many methods and nothing is completely effective. The "anonymous call rejection" blocked several friends who forgot they had their caller IDs blocked or their cell phones just automatically did not send a ID or whatever. One older lady friend took it as a personal offense that we were blocking her several years ago. My wife tried to explain, but you know how old people are. whatever.

Then I had a list of blocked numbers set up on one phone and dropped off those that I believe had "gotten the message" to make room for new ones but then the phone company trashed my entire list and I had to start over again. Should have saved it in a text file (cut and paste to my P.C.'s hard drive). So nothing is fool proof, that is for sure. #69 or look up the number on your provider's website and call from your "burner phone" does not always work because they block you. But occasionally I do this and harass them a little. My "burner phones" are mostly turned off, use for emergency. The key is to get them not to hang up, and lead them on then burn them, hey not the primary purpose of a burner phone but a fun use. I can act very polite and pretend interested in a product or service for quite a while just or fun.

They hang up for two reasons. 1. They are simply verifying the number is legitimate and then they sell it as part of a calling list. 2. They are getting paid on the number of calls placed. Once you answer the Work Force Management platform tallies that as a call completed.

I had this one guy call, it was Saturday morning and I had some time. He was asking me to log on to my PC and then he was telling me what to do. I think he wanted remote access. I was telling him I was doing what he asked for a while, after I got tired of messing with him I said I knew it was a scam and told him I wasn't any where near my computer. This dude says " I will look into the whites of your eyes while I shove my knife into your chest". Kinda if freaked me out, he had a number, he could find an address, I got thinking about my wife and kids.like to meet this dude face to face !!

That is a terrorist threat in most states. Report it to the police. They can track him down assuming he is in the U.S. One more reason not to mess with them. Or simply tell him not to bring a knife to a gun fight. :m107:

I found a very loud emergency whislte works well.....just make sure the you remove earpiece from your ear before blowing....a very vital part of the equation lol
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