- 9,414
- 37,657
My favorite robocall is the heavy robot voice telling me they're the IRS and there's a warrant out for my arrest. They then inform me it is my obligation to call them back so that they can arrest me.
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Poll The Great Telemarketing Avalanche of 2016/2017
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Go here and buy your Aristocrat For a Day item for the low price of 10 Latinum!Enjoy the rarified air of high Status for a day, but try not to get hooked!
Arative
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
- 3,097
- 4,836
The next big thing will be ringless voice mail drops. Basically you send a message directly to a carriers voicemail server and the message just appears on your phone. Probably one that has a business reason to contact you. So not scammers. It technically shouldn't be a violation of the tcpa because no call is made but legally it's a grey area.
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Palum
what Suineg set it to
- 29,215
- 48,908
That petition to consider and allow them was withdrawn from the FCC, though.
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iannis
Musty Nester
- 31,351
- 17,660
And scams. I get at least one scam a week.
I answered one claiming to be policeman benevolent (it obviously wasnt) and told the dude to go shoot some American Inventors running phone scams. That worked. They never called back!
He got so mad, lol.
I answered one claiming to be policeman benevolent (it obviously wasnt) and told the dude to go shoot some American Inventors running phone scams. That worked. They never called back!
He got so mad, lol.
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- 31,797
- 24,465
Because we have no receptionists anywhere in the company (receptionists don't generate revenue!) all calls to the receptionist lines actually just forward directly to the NOC.
So, I get barraged by sales calls at work. Cold-calls from marketing companies, companies that want to sell us shit, companies that want us to sell their products, companies that want people to attend their shitty conference, etc.
"Hi, can I speak with (so-and-so director/vp/c-level exec)."
"Do you have an existing business relationship with so-and-so exec?"
Once they say no, we have implicit permission to fuck with them. Forward them to random numbers, Rick Rolls, call trees/IVR's that go nowhere, make up shit about so-and-so exec being on sabbatical in Nepal communing with the spirits of dead chickens, etc.
Sometimes we even get the Microsoft support scammers or IRS scammers, which is always good for a long troll.
So, I get barraged by sales calls at work. Cold-calls from marketing companies, companies that want to sell us shit, companies that want us to sell their products, companies that want people to attend their shitty conference, etc.
"Hi, can I speak with (so-and-so director/vp/c-level exec)."
"Do you have an existing business relationship with so-and-so exec?"
Once they say no, we have implicit permission to fuck with them. Forward them to random numbers, Rick Rolls, call trees/IVR's that go nowhere, make up shit about so-and-so exec being on sabbatical in Nepal communing with the spirits of dead chickens, etc.
Sometimes we even get the Microsoft support scammers or IRS scammers, which is always good for a long troll.
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There was a guy who sold a device that would just go on and on keeping the idiots on the phone wasting their time.
"Would you like to buy XYZ"
"Ok let me get this...ooh there's a bee in here let me get it"
"Almost got the bee"
5 minutes later
"Oh I got the bee now about your product.."
"Yes it's XYZ"
"Oh wait someone is at the door"
5 minutes later
"Ok tell me about it"
They had a demonstration video on some youtube channel and the longest they got was keepiong the idiots on the phone for 20 minutes in hopes of getting a sale.
"Would you like to buy XYZ"
"Ok let me get this...ooh there's a bee in here let me get it"
"Almost got the bee"
5 minutes later
"Oh I got the bee now about your product.."
"Yes it's XYZ"
"Oh wait someone is at the door"
5 minutes later
"Ok tell me about it"
They had a demonstration video on some youtube channel and the longest they got was keepiong the idiots on the phone for 20 minutes in hopes of getting a sale.
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Arative
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
- 3,097
- 4,836
It was, no one seems to want to come down on one side or the other. I think the petition was withdrawn under pressure from the collection industry. I expect a lawsuit over it sooner rather than later. Laws just can't keep up with technology.
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Ukerric
Bearded Ape
- 8,481
- 10,679
Same thing. Unless the phone displays the name of someone on my contact list, you're going to deal with my voicemail.
That's mostly on my landline. The only marketing calls on my cellphone are my phone operator who wants to sell me new plans or bundle my cell with their internet fiber offer.
So far.
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Heallun
Lord Nagafen Raider
- 1,100
- 1,073
Which is why I don't even answer my voicemail anymore. Text / whatsapp me or fuck off at this point.
We've already been working on it. There's only so much clandestine bombing of Pakistan we can do.
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Vaclav
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
- 12,650
- 877
Yea spoofed 443s since we did the same with our old MD numbers are a giveaway to us as well.
I couldn't vote since I own multiple lines but 1 of the 3 is fine, the other two are getting bombarded.
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Hachima
Molten Core Raider
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That was the mistake... The actual meaning of the call is "Press 2 to validate this number belongs to someone that answers the call and listens to the message" Now your phone number just became more valuable to sell to others, which they do. A Premium filtered number list.
I own 6 cell phones(4 work and 2 personal) and 1 VOIP line. I rarely get telemarketing calls. Five of the lines have been clean so far. One of the lines went through a couple weeks of calls but I never answered and then it stopped. On my VOIP line I get a local solar company asking to sell me about solar panels but that's it.
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Big Phoenix
Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
- 47,389
- 101,950
Who are the retards who fall this shit? Like all of these scams are bottom of the barrel in terms of believably.
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TrollfaceDeux
Pronouns: zie/zhem/zer
- 19,577
- 3,743
Ignatius
#thePewPewLife
- 4,845
- 6,540
You'd be surprised. I get at least 1-2 tickets a week from the old real estate agents who "worked with the nice man from Microsoft" and are wondering why their computers are still locked down after paying "Microsoft" $300.
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