I registered with DoNotCall.gov in November 2003. You can have them send a registration confirmation to your e-mail to find out how long you’ve been registered. It tells me to wait 31 days from that date before the calls stop.
One group of calls has never stopped – the dreaded Florida Call. I get calls from a group of numbers in Florida which use an ominous sounding pre-recorded message which seems intentionally cut off on my answering machine. It says something like, “last message about your credit card.” Or, “this one last important courtesy message about your car’s warranty!” They must expect that I’ll check my caller ID and call them right back.
These are clearly solicitation calls coming to my phone number which is clearly registered with the Do Not Call registry. When I look the phone numbers up on the Web, I see lots of other people complaining about receiving soliciting calls from those numbers, and many of them complain that they are on the Do Not Call registry.
So how can this company (I’m assuming it’s one company in Florida) continue to call all these people for this long? Doesn’t the government take action against them after so many people report them on donotcall.gov? I know I report them, but then a week or two later I’ll get another call, telling me something important about my credit card…
For the record, here are the dates, times, and phone numbers that called me. I also include what they were calling about.
3/23/2009 12:04pm 561-649-9574 - car warranty going to expire
3/18/2009 10:57am 305-382-1991 - lower credit card rates
2/14/2009 9:46am 561-784-9844 - car warranty
1/22/2009 11:27am
1/13/2009 6:12p 850-432-3928
If you are also getting calls like this, report them at donotcall.gov – maybe they just need a large number of complaints before they can take serious action!
2 comments:
The do not call list is the worst of all bad ideas. It is useless and only keeps legitimate companies from calling you. There are no real consequences for calling and there is no enforcement.
The only success is the dnc list is used a a free number list by the crooks and scammers looking for new targets.
I agree with both comments above. I am having problems with the cruise, car warranty, and others, as well, although I have been on the National do not call list for a very long time for my landline. To boot, I have a prepaid phone that is costing me over $80 every month because there is something out there called LIMBO, that I never requested, yet automatically sends me the weather forecasts via text, and it is eating up my minutes daily. T-Mobile suggested that I add the number to the do not call list. This was done back in July and I still cannot stop it. T-Mobile cannot prevent it because it is not a regular cell phone. We have no laws in place for scammers and pirate companies. Most of them don't show their phone numbers, but those that do, if you call them back, a recording will say that it is no longer in service. How can that be when they just got off the phone with you? Can it be that they are illegally funnelling their calls through a phone number that is not theirs (maybe not assigned to anyone and they cracked to code to get access to these unused numbers?) Anything is possible nowadays! Everything bad is considered good or acceptable, everything good is considered bad. weak, and unacceptable. People's minds are so distorted and it is "people" who run businesses and control everything. We cannot get our own personal information, but everyone else has access to it (staff, public records, etc.) We are in "their" hands! Let us pray to God in Jesus' Name for a change.
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