We got a telemarketing call this evening from 813-899-2012 and it may be this company but I am not sure. The company name could be L & D Marketing or L & J Marketing. I found a page at the Florida BBB site where 130 complaints for telemarketing were listed and the company clearly does not care. Their excuse to the BBB is they only call businesses and there is no DNC for businesses. Well, if you are like me you are on the DNC and not a business.
The call I got was about a "survey" and depending on your answers they try to offer you services. It's clearly a scam to get around the DNC which allows telephone surveyors, but those never try to sell you something.
So what can we do about this abuse? Simple. Sign up for the Do-Not-Call list (DNC) and then report any telemarketing or scam calls you get to the FTC at 1-888-382-1222. It only takes a couple of minutes to report them and I swear to god that while it may take a few weeks, you WILL start getting fewer of these calls. It really does work, but just not as quickly as we would like it to.
And if you want to do more, you can search for the phone number they use and post to several places so others can be warned about abusive companies. You don't have to put up with this crap, just take a little time to report them and see what happens. :-)
These idiots called our business phone today at 1716 hours, after we were closed. Caller ID showed "L J Bay Area" and no message was left. I think this isn't the first time they've tried plaguing us. They say there's a sucker born every minute but there seems to be a spamming/scamming anal sphincter born every 30 seconds.