PHONE SPAM!!!

It's not even a person annoying the heck out of you. It's a pre recording which is getting on my nerves cause you can't yell at them or hurt their feelings :(

Did it tell you to call back at a free toll number ?

O, this is nothing new! I have been getting these for about a year now. The worst thing was when I got one on my cell-phone. Not only are they wasting my time, they are wasting my minutes now! I went to the government website a few months ago and signed up for the privacy act or something along those lines for cell phones. Apparently they are allowed to call cell phones now.

Since I have done that, I havent' received even one call!

Next stop:

Humanoid robot door-to-door salesmen!

Roj

I feel for you. I had to change our fax number because of spam through it. We kept running out of ink...incredible. Everything from vacation deals to stock prices.

I always love the one...

"blah blah blah save you money blah blah blah..........please wait for a reprasentative...." *Click*

Alot of them have a delay as well for getting around voice mail I guess but its easy to tell now if i pick up, just a long pause then a comp voice starts talking....

I know of a lawyer in Minneapolis who only does Fax Spam cases. Because fax spams are Illegal due to it costing the recipient. In Minnesota, you can take the spammer to court for $1000 per page, so this lawyer does all the footwork of trackign the spammer down with the phone company, and wins almost all the time.

Originally posted by amish_geek
I know of a lawyer in Minneapolis who only does Fax Spam cases. Because fax spams are Illegal due to it costing the recipient. In Minnesota, you can take the spammer to court for $1000 per page, so this lawyer does all the footwork of trackign the spammer down with the phone company, and wins almost all the time.

Ohhhh man, I could have been rich! I wish I would have known about this. We had a whole drawer full of advertisements from the fax. I’m talking about six or seven per day. The fax was near my desk and when I would see what it was about half way through, I would pull the phone line out. This way, at least it didn’t print the full page. It really got ridiculous after a while.
:eek2:

I think they went to an advanced level. Normally I can tell if the voice is computerized but this time. This is how it went:

Hi, Can I speak to XXXX XXXXX?

ME: Yes, thats meeh :)

Them: Great, how are you today?

ME: Great here, so what do you need.

Them: "AD STARTS"

ME: Not interested.

Them: "AD pauses"

THEM: "You are not obligated to purchase anything but if you can spare 20 seconds, you may find interest"

THEM: "AD Resumes"

ME: "Hang's up"

I was just suprised that if you say anything, their ad pauses and says something different. Amazing.

>I was just suprised that if you say anything, their ad pauses
>and says something different. Amazing.

Reminds me of that movie where robots kill people and if you ask them something they stop "killing mode", kindly answer your question and when they are finished return to "killing mode". LOL

Originally posted by VapoRub
I think they went to an advanced level. Normally I can tell if the voice is computerized but this time. This is how it went:

Hi, Can I speak to XXXX XXXXX?

ME: Yes, thats meeh :)

Them: Great, how are you today?

ME: Great here, so what do you need.

Them: "AD STARTS"

ME: Not interested.

Them: "AD pauses"

THEM: "You are not obligated to purchase anything but if you can spare 20 seconds, you may find interest"

THEM: "AD Resumes"

ME: "Hang's up"

I was just suprised that if you say anything, their ad pauses and says something different. Amazing.

wow , now thats something.

i know i can make good $$$$$$$$$ from such service in my part of the planet :D






































but yeah i :flamethr: :spam: so no use :P

For the United States, at least for residential customers, there is the Do Not Call List (https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx).

I think the newest spam out there are the ones that come thru your text messaging services

I think they went to an advanced level. Normally I can tell if the voice is computerized but this time. This is how it went:

Hi, Can I speak to XXXX XXXXX?

ME: Yes, thats meeh

Them: Great, how are you today?

ME: Great here, so what do you need.

Them: "AD STARTS"

ME: Not interested.

Them: "AD pauses"

THEM: "You are not obligated to purchase anything but if you can spare 20 seconds, you may find interest"

THEM: "AD Resumes"

ME: "Hang's up"

I was just suprised that if you say anything, their ad pauses and says something different. Amazing.

Thats funny actually :D

The only phone spam I got before was I came back from the shop and on my answering machine was spam regarding why I should vote for xxxx at the next election!

Just do what I do, hang up. ;)

The only phone spam I got before was I came back from the shop and on my answering machine was spam regarding why I should vote for xxxx at the next election! [/B]

Since politicians wrote the law, political phone spam is actually not illegal although it is annoying as any other.

I don't find spam very annoying at least unless it doesn`t get out of control like email spam was a while ago.. You can just ignore it, delete it or hang up. It is annoying if they are sending it via fax though.