caller ID 313-203-8198 - Female caller wanting
Wanting money for cancer .. Not with American Cancer
or MD Anderson.. Something else.. Didn't want to
accept my reply of not donating.. Tried to pressure
me to give anything - $10 - $15... I tried to keep
it nice - but she kept trying the pressure
tactic... Which is not a good idea - Talked me out
of donating one red cent... I don't make telephone
donations anyway... Pity these people can't be stopped.
Not sure they are even legit..
A female called asked if it was my residence then hung up on me, I called the number back on caller ID and it said it was not assigned. Way too strange I think, have visited other websites and some have talked with her and she wants money for cancer.
This is a despicable outfit. A lady calling from this number first rang my house earlier this week. She said she was calling for "The Cancer Fund of America" which supposedly does "hospice care." She sounded legit but I have to believe this outfit is a sleazy one. Here's why...
I explained to her that my wife has cancer and financially and that we weren't in any a position to give right now. She then hung up. Then today, the phone woke my wife (who's exhausted and in pain from her meds) a 7:52 a.m. with another call. I was half asleep, too, but I recognized the number on our bedside phone and we let it ring. The hope was we could both try to grab a few more winks before our three young children woke us.
An hour later they rang again. We didn’t answer. And then they rang again 30 minutes later. (Even though we’re on the "do not call" list.) When I finally picked up. A woman who sounded exactly like the one I spoke to a few days ago then went through the same script. I explained again (this time in more detail) that my wife had Stage IV Cancer, that our medical bills were astronomical, and that we weren't in a position to give. Just in case she wasn't the same person, I stressed, "Look, you people called me earlier in the week, I explained all this then, please take us off your call list."
Rather than grasp that Stage IV Cancer is the "incurable kind" where you eventually need hospice care, she went right back at me saying, "If you can donate $25, I can take you off the call list." Essentially, the telemarketer was trying to extort a donation in exchange for not harassing anymore. Incredible.
My wife and I have given generously to American Cancer Society and Susan G. Komen. We give to legitimate charities as much as we are legitimately able to give (i.e., we don't donate money when we have thousands of dollars more in bills than insurance will cover). Either this
charity is a monumental mound of B.S. (that’s my bet) or they are clueless to the fact that there callers are harassing the very people they came to be calling to help out.
If they ever call you again, feel free to share my story. I told them to take me off the list, but I’m sure they will call again. And I’m even more sure they would have kept calling even (especially) if I’d given in to the extortion.
I am on the Do Not Call list too, but they call sometimes 3 or 4 times a day. We just let it ring and don't answer it anymore. It's just harassment from a tele-marketer, wish I knew how to stop it.