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Want to make them leave you alone? Call them. You will hear a bogus recording saying that the number has been disconnected & it will play twice or a busy signal. As soon as you hear the recording start to play or the busy signal, hang up & call them right back. Do this over & over for about as long as you can (once when waiting for my nails to dry I did this for 40 minutes, lol). The MINIMUM time I do this is 15 minutes.
I f you hear silence, say something like "I will continue to call back until I speak to a real person"
What this does is tie up their phone line so that they can't make out-going calls & this lost phone time costs the caller money.
Now this may seem like a lot of effort (& I only fool with it on the numbers that repeat call me), but I have found that I only need to do this twice to make them quit calling me.
For me, it's worth the effort. Plus I really get a kick out of knowing that they are being bothered as much (or maybe more) as they have bothered me!
Recorded call stating that they have been monitoring your credit for the past 6 months and since you have over $10,000 in credit card debt (not true), then you qualify for a government program to reduce you debt. Only option after the recording is to press 9 to speak to a representative. Since I've been on the do not call registry for years, I pressed it so that I could request to be added to their company do not call list. The lady told me "um no, sir, no, we do not have any control over that. If you don't want calls then don't have credit cards." To which I responded "I don't have any credit card debt." Then she hung up. Filed a complaint with the FCC.
Well I have nowhere near 10000 in cc debt. much less and they called me. of course no message. I have them blocked and never get a vm. Idiots
Mentioned something about credit relief due to outstanding balances?
Recorded messages I know if I owe $10,000 or more credit cards I can get credit card relief from credit card card services