This company calls numbers on the National Do Not Call registry in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. In addition, they play a recorded message without an operator on the line in further violation of the TCPA. When you do get to an operator, they will give the company name. After being asked several times they will provide a phone number as required by the TCPA, however, they refuse to provide a physical address as also required by the TCPA. Their recorded message claims that they have guaranteed funds in non-collateralized loans, but as they refuse to provide comply with federal law in their telephone marketing operations, you can be assured that they are just an identity theft ring or other scam. Do not provide this scammer with any information.
Call three times a day at different times, "You have been pre approved for a business loan... etc" I am on the do not call list for telemarketers...; Thank you Deb you did a lot of research , I will lodge a complaint as well.
Mike from "Business Bounce" sent his Robot telemarketing to harass thousands phones frequently.
On Nov 6 2013,I decided to follow his Robot to talk to him. I press 1 to pretend that I want to take a short-term loan. THis is how the conversation went:
Mike: This is Mike how may I help you? (he sounded like a happy fisher)
Me: Yes, what is the name of your company? (with gentle sound I played)
Mike: Business Bound.
Me: Business Round?
Mike: No, Business Bounce, like bouncing the ball,
Me: Oh I see... Are you actually lending the money or are you sending people to the 3rd party?
Mike: No..no..no we do everything here, we lend the money and do all the marketings.
Are you applying for a short-term loan?
Me: No..no.. I am asking you to stop harassing this number because you've been doing that for a long time.
Mike: No....respond, quietly he hung up his phone.. and the line got cut off.
Pressed one. A guy pick up I ask him the name of the company he replies Biz belt. I inform him he his company is being chraged $100 for the call for using my phone for advertising as I had informed the person that answered the two previous times "ashley" called. And what could I help him with ? After all I was charging him one hundred bucks for the call. Which kind of threw him off. Then he asked me if I needed a loan. I told him no I would not even consider taking a loan at this time. Then he said that we ARE JUST WASTING EACH OTHERS TIME. So I asked him why his company has been wasting so much of my time by robo calling every day? Then he hung up.
Look people it is legitimate to charge someone for using your phone to conduct their business. But honestly the idea is for them to waste your time in the hope that you will give them money. Just be cool and play them and sooner or later they will give up Particularly under the threat of paying you money for the harassment. Don't get mad just calmly string them out on the phone as long as possible without telling them anything about you. If it ends up taking too much time for them to get x amount of dollars they will simply give up as they aren't interested in minimum wage or less.
However if they continue to call like I said it is absolutely legitimate to charge them Just keep a record of when they called and inform them each time they call the fee you are charging them is $100 or whatever you feel like charging them. Once the bill gets large enough and they have not paid turn them in to a collection agency for payment. Preferably one that sends out armed agents :-p