Tele-marketers invade my and your privacy through an appliance that we pay for at their convenience. Many dead phone calls are auto dialers checking to see if your number is good and at what time someone answers. Never say HELLO more than once. NEVER BUY FROM A TELEMARKETER. Buy it somewere else. NEVER GIVE DONATIONS TO A TELEMARKETER. Call your favorite charity and give. Telemarketers only give about 25% of the funds collected to the organization they are raising money for.
Always fill out the Consumer.net logsheet or the Enigma software log and request they send you their DO NOT CALL POLICY! Failure to provide FULL NAME, ADDRESS and PHONE NUMBER or to send the DO NOT CALL POLICY is a $500 fine on each request that YOU can SUE for in your local small claims court !
Adding the SIT tone to the begining of your answering machine message followed by a few seconds of silence will fool most automated dialer into thinking your phone number is an OUT OF ORDER number. Right click on the SIT tone link and choose save as to save the SITtone.WAV file to your hard drive then play it back from your PC and re-record your answering machine message.
If you have Caller ID, pressing "*77" sets your phone to reject all 'PRIVATE' calls. You will not be able to recieve international or internet PC to Phone calls. Callers get a recording saying the party does not accept calls that block the Caller ID information. "*87" turns this feature off.
Enigma FREE Anti-Telemarketing logging Software guides its users in the fine art of telling telemarketers to stop calling and to hold telemarketers accountable for their actions.
Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 Information
A practical Guide to Taping Conversations in the 50 States and the District of Columbia.
Consumer & Business Legal Resource Center (Legal Advice and forms by State)