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
Block charities that call
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.
Nothing is fool proof, but somethings are fun
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.
