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CallerComplaints: Track down telemarketers and umm... complain
It's 7:30 in the morning. You're trying to get the kids fed, clothed, and out the door on their way to school without being late for work yet again. And the phone rings. You don't recognize the number, but you pick it up anyway because who knows? It might be important. "Hello?" you say. "Hello?" No answer. Just as you're about to hang up, you hear a click and then a friendly voice finally comes on, asking if you'd like to apply for a credit card, change power companies, or purchase a burial plot. There goes two minutes of your day that you'll never be able to get back. And odds are it's going to happen again tomorrow, the day after, and the day after that.
We're not entirely sure that CallerComplaints will get those nasty telemarketers off your case any more than asking them to remove your number from their list. But it certainly might make you feel better.
When you visit the web site, you can type in the phone number of the people who have been calling and hanging up on you to find out if other people have complained about calls from that number. You can read their comments and enter your own. Or if you're just bored and want to read some horror stories, you can click on the most reported numbers from the past week, month, or all time. And if you've got any tips for getting a telemarketer to stop calling, you can share them with the community. Or better yet, share them with us in the comments!
[via Mashable]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Robert H said 4:59PM on 5-09-2008
If somebody calls asking if you would like to purchase a burial plot, just reply: "Yes, I would! How tall are you?"
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el_bob said 11:15PM on 5-09-2008
i don't get those calls - i just signed up on the national do not call registry, like a billion years ago (or whenever it opened)
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jfjb said 11:56PM on 5-09-2008
why bother?
let the answering machine pick up
check your message like the mail, at the end of the day only
and then have a glass of wine
my take
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jfjb said 8:41AM on 5-10-2008
P.S. That's the price of living in a capitalist country
Joe Merlino said 11:35AM on 5-10-2008
I got a Grand Central number. I forward my land line to that, and then forward my GC to my cell phone. Whenever I get a call from an "unknown caller", I screen it. If it's a telemarketer, I add it to my block list.
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