(1)The three little words are: 'Hold On, Please...'
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's 'beep-beep-beep' tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting..
(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.. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
If anyone figures out how to get these calls stopped, I'd sure like to know. The recorded message is talking about security systems. It states to be put on their DO NOT CALL list to press 9. I've done this but the calls continue.
Same message about the FBI and security system, received same call from 307-316-7522 the day before. Does not do any good to press 2 to be removed from their call list. I keep blocking these calls but they just keep using different numbers. I have also been filing complaints with the Federal Do Not Call Complaint form for three years now but haven't seen any reduction in these daily, sometimes several times a day calls.