Feb 17, 2009
Reno -- you need to join the real world. There are a lot of calls from legitimate companies which violate the TSR and the TCPA. Violating our privacy, acting like jerks, ignoring laws, and generally irritating people are not marks of a scam.
You cite no evidence -- no basis whatsoever -- for your scurrilous allegation. 800Notes would be a very useful tool if people would refrain from bizarre comments like yours, and take a few moments when calls like these come in, to try and find out the source.
Of course, they go out of their way to avoid that. I answered the call I got from 323-301-0437 on the second ring. Silence. They hung up.
This isn't a scam. It's something called a predictive dialer. It calls a bunch of people at once. As soon as all of their lines have suckers on the other end, they hang up the rest of the lines. Then, when a line becomes free, they dial a bunch more numbers -- and hang up on all but the first one to answer.
If we would all work to develop real and useful and provable information about the sources of these calls, AND THEN FILE LAWSUITS, calls like these would vanish almost overnight. As long as we leap to baseless conclusions and post (here) things like "Quit calling me." (Which the jerks never read.) and merely mention that we've been bothered, etc. they will keep bothering us.
Some people post here, saying we should start calling the telemarketers and harassing them. That won't work.
Filing with the FCC, FTC, and your state's Attorney General may take time and it may not appear to work, but look over at the right, under "Latest News," and read the link "Calling Do-not-call Numbers Costs 3 U.S. Firms $1.2M." If enough people complain -- and give solid, usable information -- it will be easier for more of those kinds of companies to be forced to pay that kind of money.
More importantly, if you and I file lawsuits, we can (together) collect millions of dollars. I know this, based on experience. One guy I know has collected more than $100,000. I have barely started, but collected quite a few checks -- including $10,000 for a single call. You need to have your act together, but you can do it too.
I have filed suit against one of the companies mentioned in the article, and I will use that article next week, at a pretrial hearing. If a lot of people had filed suits, that article probably wouldn't have been written because the companies would have gone broke, or they would have stopped their illegal calling.
Think about this: if each of the people who have posted about this number files a lawsuit, and if each of them only collects $500 -- the company will still have to pay lawyers between $1,000 and $10,000 to fight each of our lawsuits. WE, the people, could eventually force this company to spent $1.2 million dollars if we will use 800Notes as a valuable tool, and seriously pursue that which the law says we're entitled to have.