Here's yet ANOTHER telemarketing "work at home" pitch left on my answering machine, the second one in less than a week.

And I have screened telemarketers so aggressively that I haven't gotten one of those calls in over 6 months. Now, they're leaving these same pie-in-the-sky sales pitches on the same answering machine that normally keeps out the vermin.

Maybe this is their new strategy now that the Golden Age of Coroplast is coming to an abrupt halt?

Here's the latest:

www.fromworktohome.com

888-327-4786

>Here's the latest:
>
> www.fromworktohome.com


betterwhois says that domain name is available.
Is this another example of spammer stupidity?

>betterwhois says that domain name is available. Is this another example of spammer stupidity?

Or it might actually be "fromwork2home.com." This is a kind of stupidity I hear a lot on NPR - the fact that the way things sound doesn't tell you a lot about how they're spelled.

For example the web address "cedexhomarriott.com" is spoken (NOT spelled out) frequently during NPR sponsorship announcements.

When you hear "cedexho", how are you supposed to figure out it's spelled? I'd have never guessed about the "h" in the name, and would have guessed it as "sedexo."

So, the stupidity MAY not have been in giving a non-existent URL (though they've done that more than once on the signs), but the stupidity of not explaining that there's a number in the URL.

Still, stupid is as stupid does. These calls, which are EVERY BIT as illegal as the signs, are yeat another indicator of the desperation we're seeing from the other side.

Redstone

I would suggest recording a greeting that asks telemarketers to put you on their do not call list.
Telemarketers violate the Federal Telephone Consumer Protect Act by:
Using a recorded message to call you
Not saying their name, or the name of the company
Not providing a written telemarketing policy to you, upon request
Calling you after you specifically ask them not to.

However, if you have a business relationship with them they can call you (until you tell them to stop)
do a google search on 'suing telemarketers", which provides info on suing them in small claims court. You can win $500-$1500 for each violation

Good advice. I did a search and found the following information page on getting rid of telemarketers:

http://www.ecofuture.org/jmtelem.html

And don't forget the BadAds site! This page has info on how to stop telemarketers from calling you:

http://www.badads.org/phone.shtml

actually I dont mind getting TM calls every once in a while. I like to talk to them and get them way off the subject talking about other things and then telling them long stories and my opinions on things. Sometimes I'll run em through the ringer and ask them all the questions about their biz and see if they know what they are supposed to say. There's some website that tells stories of how other people torture TMs. Great fun!

I really enjoy starting to talk to them and then asking them to hold for a few seconds because I have another call coming in. Then I come back on and get them started on their pitch. Then I put them on hold. Some of them have stayed on the line 2-3 minutes this way!

Here's a good resource:
http://www.antitelemarketer.com/

But don't go to that site for a while - they're "making improvements."

The annoying popup ad works on every page, though, even if the pages themselves don't have anything on them.

Redstone

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