This is from the MD. Sheriff's Association, but the message the caller leaves is only a name, without any indication of the affiliation or purpose of the call. They are looking for advertisers. Although I asked them to stop calling, they won't. The magazine they want you to advertise in is virtually all advertising. There are a few articles in it. There is so much advertising that whatever ad you pay for will be lost in it. Besides, the Sheriff's are well paid and have a retirement system most of us can only dream about. Why do they deserve extra money from us?
I recieved a call from this number. I called back and found the number to be The Maryland Sheriffs Association. After calling my local sheriff I found this to be a cedible association that has ties to evey sheriff in the state of Maryland.
This is from the MD. Sheriff's Association, but the message the caller leaves is only a name, without any indication of the affiliation or purpose of the call. They are looking for advertisers. Although I asked them to stop calling, they won't. The magazine they want you to advertise in is virtually all advertising. There are a few articles in it. There is so much advertising that whatever ad you pay for will be lost in it. Besides, the Sheriff's are well paid and have a retirement system most of us can only dream about. Why do they deserve extra money from us?
They called my office and insisted it was a personal call. When my office manager tried to take the call he was rude to her. When I called back I got a hard sell for a worthless magazine ad. No written information, no credit card payment, they will send someone to pick up the check. We called the MD Sheriff's department today, and found out this is a private publishing company that is legitimately making an ad book for them to raise money. I have no objection to making a donation to a program that supports our law enforcement officers. These men and women risk their lives to take care of the rest of us, and deserve our support. The money raised will go to funds for widows and children of these officers, LESS A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT TO THE PUBLISHERS OF THE AD BOOK. I have made a donation directly to the MSA, which will ALL go to help the affiliated charities instead of paying aggressive telemarketers.
They called my office and left message with my representative, just gave
a name and stated they were from the State Police and phone number. Being
in the type of business I'm in I thought it was serious, so I called
back several times, and just a general mailbox message. Finally got a hold
of the caller and he stated that they or looking for people who want to
advertise in the State Police Magazine. Prices ranged from $180.00 on up to approx $800.00. I agreed to buy an ad to help the Department but after reading the responses on this page, I refused the COD package from UPS. They made seem like the ad was LOCAL, since the caller mentioned that he had my business card, but phones number searchs showed the numbers numbers were from Washington or Gaithersburg, MD.