When someone starts out lying about who she is representing I hang up and contact the boys over at the agency. They will be paying them a visit. Tick, tock.
None of these methods will work. They, like dozens of other outfits, are officially listed as a survey company, but the aim is to influence you to buy certain products and/or services, especially air miles, credit repair, home refinancing, credit card solutions and get rich quick schemes. This is a new tactic just recently developed by telemarketers. They sign up survey outfits and give them a fee for pushing certain brands, goods or services under the guise of a "survey". The FTC is powerless to do anything about it because of the survey classification. They would have to be re-classified in order to be censored, but that's not going to happen anytime soon, unless they inadvertently call one of the FTC governing board commissioners and give themselves away. Bottom line is, the FTC is outgunned, outclassed and outsmarted. Telemarketers have been scamming for decades and are highly creative, very experienced and extremely motivated by percentage-based pay. The FTC, on the other hand, is under-manned, over-worked, and what's worse, paid by salary, which makes their work feel like a 9-5 job, i.e., little motivation. The FTC, for lack of a better word, is like a naked babe in the woods. There is nothing they can do to stop them. Sorry folks.
Three calls within half an hour; I let the answering machine handle it for me, so I have no information to offer. I thank those of you with more patience for the information you have provided here. (Actually, I see that once the number was the one above; twice it was -5502.)
They've called me 5 times in the past hour, if they call me again I'll probably answer and yell at them or use the Trap method...Its just saying "Trap" then the time and date right? And they got another thing comin if they think they can make me do some stupid survey.
We've been getting calls from survey people for years and years. Number may change but the survey is pretty much the same. This is a new number but I am so irritated that it has honed in on our number. Doesn't do any good to ask to be removed, they or the next guy will start up again shortly. The Do Not Call Regestry doesn't phase them 'cause "they aren't selling anything"! They should revise the do not call and make it the DO NOT ANNOY registry so we can get them ALL to leave us alone!