Rick Rolling Telemarketers
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 7/27/2015 1:00:00 AM
Don't you just love telemarketers?
Although I'm on the National Do Not Call List, almost every call I get on my home phone is from a telemarketer. On a typical day, I may get one or two calls from people I know and at least ten from telemarketers. That's crazy.
Even though I have caller ID, I still answer the phone every time, so I can ask them to remove me from their list. My thought process is that if I didn't answer, they would just call again and again. By asking to be removed, I expected fewer calls. That wasn't the case. The calls keep coming.
Then I started tracking the callers, so I could see which ones still called after I asked them to remove me. Whenever that happens, I report them to the FCC. I've filed more FCC complaints over the years than I can count. But the calls keep coming.
Suffice it to say, it's frustrating. I have had that home number for decades, and I don't want to get rid of it, but these telemarketers started to get under my skin.
I no longer fight with telemarketers, or even bother asking to be removed from their list. Now I just Rick Roll them.
I can't explain why, but I get more satisfaction from Rick Rolling telemarketers than I did from reporting them to the FCC. It's quick and easy. I have a sound App on my iPhone. I recorded a few minutes of "Never Gonna Give You Up" from Rick Astley, and whenever I get a call from a telemarketer, I just put the iPhone next to my home phone and hit play. I can't express how much more satisfying this is than reporting them to the FCC.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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