Responding in great reluctance yesterday, I heard a rather grating canned female warming me up for alarm system sales, with rather typical fright verbiage about "home invasion and medical emergency" and implying that I'll be the next statistic if I don't do what the illegal caller wants. Also typical were the come-ons about the "free" system offer and teasing with a "discount pharmacy card". Allegedly "The United Institution for Security" has prepaid installation and activation, like the darlings they are which no one has ever heard of. There were prompts for keypress, indicating an olde tyme automated recording and not a monitored soundboard.
My live rep, supposedly in Florida, claimed to represent "Premier Home Security", and of course kept reading non-answers off his script when I pressed for a real biz name and location. Despite telling me maybe six times that they are "all over" the nation, and after keeping me waiting for a long stretch of clacking his keyboard, (or else generating that sound effect) no "technician" could be found working in my area this week to meet with me. (Just as well, I still have to meet with a solar panel installer referred by some other creepos with non-English accents.) But he promised to call again next week. All the while I'm trying not to grind my teeth or give this clown a dope slap lesson in what federal law says, knowing that I will never reach the head of the snake without my barely feigning compliance.
There is "Premier" LLC in Ohio, which is not to say it's genuinely the place which benefits from these illegal canned calls. I don't have time today for the homework. I was also given a return number, 844-288-1168, which is not obviously associated with any business. Dialing that after business hours yielded a cheery canned female from the vaguely named "Senior Protection Network", who claims that "your medical alert system is ready to be shipped". Wait, now, I thought this was for a whole house alarm system, guys. Get it together! The caller is asked for a name, phone number, and a "release code, found at the bottom of your postcard". WHAT postcard?! Plainly more than one fraud is being run here, although under the umbrella of charging monthly for some form of remote monitoring, the usual end game of both alarm system and medical panic button hawkers.
I'd experienced a ridiculous swarm of commercial fundraiser calls in February from four sources. That's not the call purpose in this case, at least for myself and "no1sicko" below.