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View Full Version : Think MCI would mind if I used my account to spam?


JDF
01-17-2002, 10:42 PM
.. because they seem to have no problem calling me unsolicited. In the past 3 days I must have answered 10 anonymous phone calls only to be hung up on by their dialing machine. I finally got a real person a few seconds ago and told them to put us on thier "do not call list" so I thought I'd share. Bastards..

UNIXIELHOST
01-17-2002, 10:44 PM
When I used MCI, they spammed me big time, try put us on special plans and then end up bill me, instead I send the charges back, failed. Send to FCC, it was solved.

MCI is awful, so do AT&T! :angry:

Jason Ellis
01-18-2002, 02:20 PM
Originally posted by JDF
told them to put us on thier "do not call list" so I thought I'd share. Bastards..

Is your phone line a residential line or a business line (you don't indicate)?

The reason I ask is that the laws regarding telephone solicitations only apply to residential phone lines, not business lines. Meaning that if you are a residential phone user, your request to be put on their do not call list must, by law, be honored. If, however, you're a business phone user, your request does not have to be honored. :mad:

And from experience - MCI keeps track - I've asked them 3 or 4 dozen times to stop calling me, but they keep calling my business line (they have indeed stopped calling my home line), and unfortunately the law says there's nothing I can do. :angry:

JDF
01-18-2002, 08:10 PM
It's a residential line. Telling them to put us on the do not call list seems to work for a few months at a time but this isn't the first time I've had to do it. I always feel bad.. the girl I talked to the other day sounded absolutly crushed. That job's gotta suck..

Chicken
01-18-2002, 08:19 PM
I once had a job (attempting) to sell international outbound *fax* traffic. I can't recall anything sucking worse, not to mention the internet was pretty much killing that industry... hmmm... I've had a couple of those jobs actually. Selling roll film to newspapers who were going digital, etc... *pfffft*

Ohhh and yes, MCI does indeed suck. The totalnic of domain registrations. The suck of suck.