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Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch
From: "Dave Killion" <dave.killion () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:39:35 -0700
On 10/17/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> I figure it will set me back about $500 total for the card and then throw it > in a spare computer I've got lying around. I'd set it up with a white list > of callerID's to automatically pass-through, and a recording for all others > that informs them I don't take sales calls, etc, and to press one if they > are not a sales call. > > I just gotta find the time... You also have to find sales callers who don't hit one when they hear that message.
I'm hoping whatever I put in the 'etc' part will discourage them from doing so. Something along the lines of: "This number is on the Do Not Call list. If this is a sales call, hang up now, or be subject to penalty under FTC Rule, 16 C.F.R. Part 310. If this is not a sales call, please press one now." Try to make it short, sweet, and legalistic enough to make the 100-rupee-a-day telemarketers at least think twice about pressing 1. The system will also have a log of the time, date, and callerID of the call, and it can even record the call if I like (I'd have to add a notice at the beginning, I'm sure), so if I did want to post a complaint, I could script up something that automatically filed the complaint for me - e.g. I could hook in something that say I dialed some sequence of numbers that it would take me off the call, play a recorded message ("You have violated FTC Rule, 16 C.F.R. Part 310, and a complaint is being generated..." etc), similar to the "Phone Butler" gadget ( http://www.privacycorps.com/pages/phone-butler-review.htm - $40~$50 + S/H) people buy to politely hang up on people. Will it stop them all? Probably not. Will it drop my 3-5 calls a day to something more reasonable? I hope so! I understand that I'd be spending more time setting this up than I'd ever spend dealing with calls, but it's more than the time - it's the disruption, the frustration, etc that I'd be getting rid of. Plus, I'd have a full VOIP-enabled PBX, if I wanted to play with the other features of Asterisk. Or start my own telemarketing company! Err... not... -Dave
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- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch, (continued)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Drsolly (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Blanchard_Michael (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Drsolly (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Richard M. Smith (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Brian Loe (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Blanchard_Michael (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Richard M. Smith (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Drsolly (Oct 17)
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- [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Dave Killion (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Drsolly (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Dave Killion (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Drsolly (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Blanchard_Michael (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Drsolly (Oct 17)
- Re: [privacy] FTC Hangs Up on Telemarketers' Pitch Blanchard_Michael (Oct 17)