Telemarketer Threatens To Blow Up Home

[Misfit]

Telemarketer Threatens To Blow Up Home - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver

“The telemarketer was explaining to him that he had won some money,” Schwartz said. “The homeowner was not interested and hung up the phone.”

Schwartz said the telemarketer called back immediately “and got pretty rude, telling the homeowner, ‘I’ve placed a bomb in your house.’”

 

[Toxick]

Telemarketer Threatens To Blow Up Home - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver

“The telemarketer was explaining to him that he had won some money,” Schwartz said. “The homeowner was not interested and hung up the phone.”

Schwartz said the telemarketer called back immediately “and got pretty rude, telling the homeowner, ‘I’ve placed a bomb in your house.’”

It's things like this that have led me to the conclusion that all telemarketers should be dragged out like lame mules, and shot.

 

[bcp]

It's things like this that have led me to the conclusion that all telemarketers should be dragged out like lame mules, and shot.

problem is finding them.
they use numbers that will show up as not in use. They call from overseas and make it look local.
tracking them is a long and hard process. and most the time, its not something worth the authorities time since they cant do anything about it if it is offshore.

 

[protectmd]

The best way to deal with a telemarketer is to simply put them on hold. Telemarketer- "Are you interested in the vacation package uh John Smith?" You- "Yes im interested, but hold on while I go get John Smith" simply put the phone down and walk away.

This takes up precious minutes of the telemarketers time when he could be dialing others and harassing them. Eventually they will give up and hang up. Now that's taking time out of their day. If you want to feel good about yourself, cuss them out, then hang up.

This wont stop unless congress passes a law against it or takes action against those countries who harbor these harassers.

The FCC should get involved. They allow these "robo dialers" and computers to tie up phone lines. It gets even more ridiculous when the robo dialers start dialing numbers to emergency communication centers, federal agencies and other entities who simply have lines reserved for more important things than some idiot sitting in a warehouse in india dialing numbers through a computer.

 

[MMDad]

The FCC should get involved.

Wrong. The only reason telemarketers exist is because people buy what they're slling. If people stop buying crap, the problem will take care of itself. The attitude of "Uncle Sugar should protect me" is the problem. We don't need any more of their "protection."

 

[protectmd]

Your advocating the FCC doesn't crack down on telemarketers? That the government shouldn't get involved in international scam companies preying on US Consumers? Frankly, it is an FCC problem. Its no different than someone firing up a pirate radio station or operating on a HAM radio frequency without a license.

Technically, the FCC can come inside your house now without a warrant if your broadcasting WiFi to "inspect" your radio equipment. Don't submit to inspection? Heavy fines to follow. Ill be honest, id rather the FCC be investigating robo callers and tracking hackers who are "phreaking" consumers to social engineer elderly citizens out of their personal information than have their enforcement division inspecting my wireless telephone or WiFi station in my house.

The problem of telemarketers is a 2 fold problem. 1 its companies who've outsourced their employees to overseas english speaking low income economy countries who can operate outside the law. 2 its hackers, phone phreakers and social engineers operating computer programs designed to harass citizens all hours of the day and night. How you wouldn't want these 2 things investigated and prosecuted for this ongoing attack on americans via phone lines is beyond me.

 

[MMDad]

Your advocating the FCC doesn't crack down on telemarketers? That the government shouldn't get involved in international scam companies preying on US Consumers? Frankly, it is an FCC problem. Its no different than someone firing up a pirate radio station or operating on a HAM radio frequency without a license.

Technically, the FCC can come inside your house now without a warrant if your broadcasting WiFi to "inspect" your radio equipment. Don't submit to inspection? Heavy fines to follow. Ill be honest, id rather the FCC be investigating robo callers and tracking hackers who are "phreaking" consumers to social engineer elderly citizens out of their personal information than have their enforcement division inspecting my wireless telephone or WiFi station in my house.

The problem of telemarketers is a 2 fold problem. 1 its companies who've outsourced their employees to overseas english speaking low income economy countries who can operate outside the law. 2 its hackers, phone phreakers and social engineers operating computer programs designed to harass citizens all hours of the day and night. How you wouldn't want these 2 things investigated and prosecuted for this ongoing attack on americans via phone lines is beyond me.

Let me see if I understand you - we need the FCC to protect us from ourselves because they already have the power to over-reach on a different issue.

No, I want the FCC to concentrate on their actual useful purpose. We need consumers to take responsibility for their own actions.

If any time a telemarketer or robo-caller called anyone they ended up getting hung up on, they wouldn't be in business. Simple.

 

[Merlin99]

Your advocating the FCC doesn't crack down on telemarketers? That the government shouldn't get involved in international scam companies preying on US Consumers? Frankly, it is an FCC problem. Its no different than someone firing up a pirate radio station or operating on a HAM radio frequency without a license.

Technically, the FCC can come inside your house now without a warrant if your broadcasting WiFi to "inspect" your radio equipment. Don't submit to inspection? Heavy fines to follow. Ill be honest, id rather the FCC be investigating robo callers and tracking hackers who are "phreaking" consumers to social engineer elderly citizens out of their personal information than have their enforcement division inspecting my wireless telephone or WiFi station in my house.

The problem of telemarketers is a 2 fold problem. 1 its companies who've outsourced their employees to overseas english speaking low income economy countries who can operate outside the law. 2 its hackers, phone phreakers and social engineers operating computer programs designed to harass citizens all hours of the day and night. How you wouldn't want these 2 things investigated and prosecuted for this ongoing attack on americans via phone lines is beyond me.

No they can't, wifi is in an open band. That's just a scare story that's been going as long as cell phones have been around.

 

[protectmd]

That's not a scare story. The FCC has the right to inspect any piece of equipment that transmits any sort of radio frequency. The FCC controls what bands and frequencies things are broadcasted on. The FCC has a right to regulate speech that is broadcast on frequencies.

Simply asking a government agency to start regulating predators who've hijacked phones and make them stop their activities is simply forcing them to do their job. I wont lose any sleep when these fools are arrested and their phone equipment seized. Most americans would be happy to go back to the days when telemarketers weren't harassing and bothering citizens. I know it wasn't too long ago that congress as a whole brought the issue up because these "companies" or "hackers" or whoever have literally driven people up the wall by calling all hours of the day and night. Americans have a right to peace and quiet, their phones should ring off the hook because some losers computer is programmed to dial numbers 24/7.

I can see how you might feel the FCC regulates free speech and its wrong for the government to regulate companies. It goes against the whole "free market" idea. But "free market" lost common sense when phones rang off the hook 24/7 in houses across america. Free market that ran unchecked allowed mortgage companies to give loans to anyone who applied. This whole do what you want philosophy has allowed predators to prey on the citizens by using the phones to harvest information to sell on the internet that way lines of credit can be opened up in other countries. These people use credit card transactions to fund terrorism in some cases. You don't see this as a problem?

 

[Merlin99]

That's not a scare story. The FCC has the right to inspect any piece of equipment that transmits any sort of radio frequency. The FCC controls what bands and frequencies things are broadcasted on. The FCC has a right to regulate speech that is broadcast on frequencies.

Simply asking a government agency to start regulating predators who've hijacked phones and make them stop their activities is simply forcing them to do their job. I wont lose any sleep when these fools are arrested and their phone equipment seized. Most americans would be happy to go back to the days when telemarketers weren't harassing and bothering citizens. I know it wasn't too long ago that congress as a whole brought the issue up because these "companies" or "hackers" or whoever have literally driven people up the wall by calling all hours of the day and night. Americans have a right to peace and quiet, their phones should ring off the hook because some losers computer is programmed to dial numbers 24/7.

I can see how you might feel the FCC regulates free speech and its wrong for the government to regulate companies. It goes against the whole "free market" idea. But "free market" lost common sense when phones rang off the hook 24/7 in houses across america. Free market that ran unchecked allowed mortgage companies to give loans to anyone who applied. This whole do what you want philosophy has allowed predators to prey on the citizens by using the phones to harvest information to sell on the internet that way lines of credit can be opened up in other countries. These people use credit card transactions to fund terrorism in some cases. You don't see this as a problem?

find it in the federal regs, or even easier call the regional FCC coordinator and ask him.

 

[GWguy]

Don't answer the phone. Let it go to voicemail. I scan my calls, and for every 100 rings, maybe 2 actually leave a message. The rest hang up after they hear the greeting. You don't answer the phone, they eventually get the message and don't call back, and eventually your number gets dropped from everyone's list.

 

[Bean Machine]

Don't answer the phone. Let it go to voicemail. I scan my calls, and for every 100 rings, maybe 2 actually leave a message. The rest hang up after they hear the greeting. You don't answer the phone, they eventually get the message and don't call back, and eventually your number gets dropped from everyone's list.

No they don't! My answering machine was getting filled up with robo calls. I have since found a way to silence them AND save $$$.
Until recently I had never heard of OOMA. OOMA is an internet phone hookup. My land line bill was almost $60 per month. With OOMA it's slightly less than $5 per month (but you have to purchase the box for around $180...one time cost). I got the premier service for an extra $9.99 per month and among other things, it lets you blacklist any incoming calls. You can select which message you want those calls to hear when they try to call. It's been very effective!!! First call might get through, but once the number shows up on the call log, I can blacklist it. If enough OOMA customers blacklist a certain # it gets permanently blocked.
Bottom line, I've saved $45 per month on phone service and blocked telemarketers (and all those pesky political calls).

 

[drivingdaisy]

We got the Magic Jack phone and only bills, nonsense, and work get that number. We never answer it unless we recognize the number. It's not even hooked up to ring out loud half of the time. I like that I can listen to messages online and on email. I only wish I could delete them from the email. People important to me have my cell phone and I get very little junk calls on that.

 

[Asmodeus]

I've found switching off voicemail and turning the fax machine to auto-answer cut down on a lot of b.s. voicemails...

 

[chuckster]

We screen every call that we get. COMCAST makes it easy by flashing the number that is calling us on the TV. So with the ringer off I can just ignore all the calls that I want.
If by chance they leave a message, I will receive an e mail with the message in text form. The only phone that I answer now is my cell. Next step is to get rid of land line.