Hey guys, I got a call from this number a month ago, they told me I had won a cruise. Of course I didn't believe them until I got the tickets in the mail. Well, we just returned from a wonderful, all-expenses paid, Caribbean cruise!!! It was great!!!
(Anyone believe this??? Ha ha ha...I never pick up calls with numbers/caller IDs I don't recognize.)
I have copied this info from an Andy Rooney's Tips for Telemarketeres column. I have used it on several of those "robo" numbers and it has been working. I usually do it on the second call so I can check the number on Google on sites like this one to see who it is. He also says if there is a person rather than a robot just say "hold on please" and put the phone down. This ties up their line and time a lot longer than if you just hang up immediately.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as
quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Since doing this, my phone calls have decreased dramatically.
well we could have succumbed to skilling of enron, or ebbers of world com, or kozlowski of tyco, or fuld of lehman bros,or cayne of bear stearns, or thain of merrill lynch, or mozilo of country wide, or corzine of mf capital....all very evil captains of bad ventures? What is the difference between these scoundrels and the cruise shipper scammers who recently crashed the ship supposedly captained by schettino?