Got a call from L. Hecker Atty. on caller ID, some guy left a message and asked for me to call him at Ext. 251, file #168-1317. I was curious as to what it was about..so called back. He told me it was in regards to some chick named Tracy Boyle..Never heard of that person...told me she had put my name down as a reference number. Again I told him I had never heard of this person, he stated that I must as she supposidly lived next door to me. The address he gave doesn't exist.He stated I could be supeoned to court....I said go for it as I have absolutely no idea who this person is. They hung up
(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!!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get 'ads' enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these 'ads' with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 41 cents postage, 'IF' and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney 's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 41 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
Hey I agree with you they called me and the man was very rude and he was loud and I counldn'tget a word in at all.And then he told me I had until 9:00 pm to called him back.I called back and talk to Olivia Miller and she told me there were not Attorneys them selfs.they were just trying to collect the money for portifolio.And she wnted me to call her back today which is Friday May 8,2009 to give her my bank account numbers so I can make payments like that.But I decided not to so I ask her if they take money orders and she said no so Iam wondering are they just trying to scam money out of people.Most places will take money orders but they don't so something don't sound right.How did you block there number.
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Who are these people and what do they want? They call and leave an automated message that says, "We have an important message for _______ ______, this is not a sales call. If this is _______ ______ please call us at 609-570-3039."
So I called from a different phone. The "receptionist" who answered said "Law Offices" and when I asked what law office she mumbled something and said "one minute" and put me on hold. She was rude and unintelligible. I hung up and called back asking again what law firm this was because I could not understand what she had said the first time. She put me on hold. The person who picked up said Law Offices. I said, yes apparently - whose law office? They said Larry Drew's. I said what is this regarding. They asked for my phone number I said no, what is this regarding. He said this is a " Laaahhwww Office" I said "Yes we have established that, what kind of law does this office practice, where are you located?" He asked if the number I was calling from is they number they called me at and then HE READ MY PHONE NUMBER TO ME. Then he said, if you don't cooperate they may be something important that you need to take care of. I hung up. When to google and found this website. Who are these people?