Well I"ve read all these messages & I would like to SAY THIS TO MIKE, IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE PHONE YOU HAVE! I have 3 different phones all w/caller ID; AT&T, Sony, GE & when your company called my AT&T came up with Synovate, my Sony came up with caller UNKNOWN & the GE came up with NO NAME though all 3 came up with the same phone#.
I have also found out from my phone company in Orlando (& an aunt who just retired from a phone company in NY) that in certain areas, it can depend on the phone companies themselves as to what comes up w/the#. Things are manually inputed & with the way people change #'s (more than they change underware-at times-as she put it) The systems don't get updated right away, & if it's a small company in "let's say Watonga, OK (where I spent some time with family) all you had to do was dial the last 4 digits within the town (& neighboring towns). So updates may not get done at all. And yes, even in today's age of technology there are still places within the USofA that are not up to everyone elses standards, even some cities you think should be aren't.
Not to mention this fact, but if your company is a research company (for WaMu) & people are on the DO NOT CALL LIST, then that is what it means DO NOT CALL!!! No Exemptions!!! Research is still telemarketing!, anyway you look at it. I should NOT have to be bothered by a "research phone call" just because I went to a bank & changed a pin#, don't you agree???
The caller ID does not show the company name when they call to my area. It only shows "Caller Unknown". Thanks for the information, I have initiated legal action against them for violation of the "Don't Call List". It is my beleif that the only way to stop this abuse is to hit all these violators with civil suits.
Thank you for the info...this is the first time it ever occurred to me to use Internet to find out who is calling...I was going to share much of the info that kj posted...but I'm too late. ;)
I am going to check again because I thought I was on a DNC list also and I still get calls occassionally...I used to be a telemarketer for a short time...single parent had about four jobs...people can get ugly, but many are nice. If they call here they better all hope they get me, not dh...he insists they give him their phone number so he can call them at ? time...I can't believe they just call on Sunday and after 9pm at night.
GET THIS: I just scrolled through my Caller I.D. they called on 7/23 at 9:35 AT NIGHT and it is same number BUT it comes up Fresno CA (I actually answered that time, and told them it was inappropriate for them to be calling this late on the East Coast!)
I had another number call me one night four times in a row...I think it was Dell...they called at like 5:34, 6:37, 7:39, and 8:45 or something crazy like that..I never picked up till next day I think I told them about all the calls the night before also.