[SEL] OT...Cold Calls....telephone problems

[Lew Best]

Only 2 ideas I have is let an answering machine "monitor" the calls &
only pick up if you want to talk to the caller or if I'm not mistaken
these calls are not allowed to cell phones?  Regular number gets them a
lot when I'm not home (usually busy when I'm home as I'm usually online)
& I don't recall ever getting one on the cell phone.

Lew


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[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of James
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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [SEL] OT...Cold Calls....telephone problems

We suffer in a similar fashion and Bill is correct...there ain't much
you can do but swear and hang up.
  A lot of this intrusion originates in India. The companies train their
indiginous people to speak in an "American" dialect.
  JM

bill at antique-engines.com wrote:  Here I'd use caller ID and if they
don't let their ID come through, I'd
not answer it.

It's a major problem and the "do not call" lists don't work worth a hoot
either as the caller say "it's their right to free speech to be able to
call anyone for any reason". One time the fellow argued and said "I'm
not
soliciting or selling anything, we are just offering these great deals".
What a moron.

And as far as their "right" to call me - BUNK - to me it's like
trespassing if I don't want them on my line.

Automated calls are supposed to be illegal in Iowa, but they come
anyway.
Those are the ones where there never is a real person, a computer calls
and when it detects a pickup, it plays a message. Even the political
parties use those here.
You have a heck of a time catching them or tracing them and they know
it.

Bill
Runnells, Iowa

> This is something that i am now experiencing but from what i read is
> something that the US and the UK have had for some time.
> The phone rings and because you have the answer phone connected and
the
> message kicks in after 6 rings you rush to the phone and if you are in
the
> bloody workshop it is even worse ,i.e. you trip over something!
> Anyway when you pick up the phone and say ''hello '' there is no
answer,
> not
> even the bloody man from Bombay or Calcutta as has been the case[ my
> solution to the latter is to ask if they can help me with my pet
elephant
> Abdullah ,he has gone off his food].
> Seems these unanswered calls are " Cold Calls, computer generated and
used
> by call centres.Anyone got any good ideas of how to combat this
problem?
> Peter Ogborne
> Little Grove ,Albany
> West Australia
> ''Heart of the Rainbow Coast ''
> jopeter at omninet.net.au
>
>
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