The caller ID read, "NOT IN USE," so apparently these clowns are so inept they can't even spoof the name. Do I want an alarm system from them? Since it would probably call the gas company to report a burglary, I think not.
Wow! All I got when I picked up the phone was the CEO of Your Security asking if I wanted to buy some full color 8-by-10 glossys of him screwing farm animals in rural Pennsylvania.
Peter is a recording. It's a "smart" system that has different responses to different comments, including hanging up if you confuse it. If you go through the recording, it will transfer you to a live person. These people will go to great lengths to get info from you without saying who they are, even hanging up on you if you push them for their company name. These scumbag companies are the worst of the worst. They want all your info to sell you without letting you know who they are because they know they'll be busted by DNC list AND the company they are screwing over. I called back multiple times to play the game in hopes of getting the company name, and finally got Monitronics. Called Monitronics, and they apparently work with these scumbags, and play the "victim" that these companies do business this way. These companies typically pay for "leads" from Peter, so I happily call them to just to screw them over. Call the number to get to a human, and let them know you don't do business with people who work this way.
I think the best thing to do is to get to the person. When you get them, ask them, "Hey, what are you wearing?" I mean even if the caller is of the same gender. Another good question is, "Are you hungry?"
Ask them where they were last night. Ask them if they eat ants. Ask them if they wear their shoes on the correct feet. Keep asking them these truly important questions.
Don't refuse to answer. That's just waving the white flag and surrendering to these greedheads. If you think not answering is going to stop them - someone says the "silent treatment works", it doesn't - you're wrong. For all we know, it can be one person who pushes a button and gets his or her phones to ring the same numbers night after night, day after day. She or he could care less if you answer. They come in to work, around your dinner time, most likely, hit a computer key or two and the auto phones start calling the same numbers, including yours, that they called yesterday, the day before, the day before that, ad infinitum (can infinitum go backwards? - I didn't think so)
Be creative. Have some fun with these greedheads.
There are a great many questions you can ask them. I truly believe that this will discourage them.
Try it. It's fun and you can intrude upon their privacy at the same time they're intruding upon yours.
I really like the person who called Peter back ten times. I suggest that you all do that as well. As that person said, it might give them some idea of how it feels to have their privacy invaded.
People, the Do No Call Registry is a joke. I'm on it. It's never stopped anyone from calling me. I've complained.
I told one person if he or she calls again, "I'll own you." Now, I have no idea what that means, but it sounded cool.
Don't give up. Don't hurt anyone or destroy any property. Try to refrain using profanity. However, fight back. These are people who don't care how wealthy or how poor you are. They want to squeeze everything out of you and take it for themselves.
I'm afraid this is what America has come to. I -me- mine.
I notice that no one’s responded to my suggestion and that’s OK. It’s not the easiest thing to do.
However, my guess, and I could be wrong, is that many of you are thinking, “I can’t say things like that. They’ll call the police.”
Think about that over and over and over and over again. “They’ll call the police.”
Do we really think that people who are trying to scam us out of money or whatever would call the police because we say “obnoxious” things to them? And if they did call the police, wouldn’t it be wonderful? They’d call the police. They’d do at least have of our job for us.
I wrote this at another message board of people whose privacy is being constantly invaded and I don’t see it there anymore. Did they remove it because it was “over the top”? And having our privacy invaded day in and day out isn’t over the top?
I’ll suggest this again when I get another greedhead phone call. I actually record these things in a document I call Phone Nazis.
Are we kidding? We’re afraid that they’d call the police?
Fight back anyway you want. They can pay the keepers of the Do No Call Registry much more than we can.
They can pay our “representatives” in congress – it’s been a long time since the people have had representatives in congress – much more than we can.
However, we can register the calls. We can call the corporate telephone companies. We can call the corrupt members of our government and we can think that something will be done. Then we can hope the Easter Bunny brings us chocolates.
I don’t condone, in any way, shape or form hurting anyone or physically damaging property, but I do condone screwing with their heads.
If you think it’s too hard, I have more faith in you than you have in yourself and I don’t even know you. Not only do I think you can do it, I think you’ll enjoy it.