Telemarketers = phone spam
Posted by Nicki on March 18th, 2008 at 7:54 am · TrackBack URI
I got my first sales/telemarketer call on my cell last night. It was a local number, but Google searches have turned up empty. I didn’t answer it because I didn’t recognize the number. The caller left a 6 minute message touting life insurance quotes for whatever company for whom he was calling — six freakin’ minutes!
Geez, buddy, if you can’t sum it up in 2 minutes or less, you’ve lost my interest.
Lucky for him I guess that I didn’t answer … I get pretty ugly if a caller is pushy or won’t take “No, thank you” for an answer.
I would like to know how they got that number though, as only a handful of people have it.
4 Comments »
Nicki (507 comments.) saidYou know, now that you mention it, my name wasn’t mentioned at all. Good thing for them. 
Uncle Monster saidOh the fun I’ve had messing with telemarketers.
RING! RING!
“Gay and lesbian hot line, we know life sucks but we can help you
lick your problems. This is Darell, may I help you?”
“Uh, yea, I’m with XYZ Company and was calling to see if you would
be interested in our QRM system.”
“Are you gay or lesbian dear?”
“Uh, no.”
“THEN WHY ARE YOU CALLING THE GAY AND LESBIAN HOT LINE?”
“Uh, well I’m trying to sell QRM systems.”
“Don’t you think we should keep this line clear for my gay and lesbian sisters who are suffering in that homophobic world of
yours?”
“Um, I don’t know about that.”
“Listen honey, where did you get our number?”
“It was in the computer.”
“Can you take it out of your computer?”
“Uh, yea.”
“Thank you!”
CLICK!!
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March 18, 2008 @ 10:48 am
Unless they called you by name in those looooong 6 minutes, I wouldn’t worry about how they got the number. Most telemarketers use random dialing machines, though as I understood, I thought it was illegal to call a cell phone to solicit.