Problem with telemarketing calls need help/QUESTION

Guys here is what happens You get calls (numerous) many don't have a person or a prerecorded spiel. There is simple no one there. If you try to look the number up or call it back no luck don't exist etc. MY QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE CALL FOR??? mY CELL HAS CALLER ID SO I DON'T ANSWER NON LOCAL NUMBERS. OH HERE ARE A COUPLE OF THE NUMBERS 4108445506/2076191468/2246495509

Google the numbers. They are no doubt telemarketers.

Many telemarketing calls have long delays before someone picks up.
Computers dial numbers. Lots of them. As soon as someone answers
i.e. you, the computer transfers the answered call to a queue.
The next available operator gets the call, and your info pops up
on their computer screen so they know who to ask for by name.
When they are busy, that can take quite a bit of time.

(quoted from post at 18:41:47 06/06/13) Guys here is what happens You get calls (numerous) many don't have a person or a prerecorded spiel. There is simple no one there. If you try to look the number up or call it back no luck don't exist etc. MY QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE CALL FOR??? mY CELL HAS CALLER ID SO I DON'T ANSWER NON LOCAL NUMBERS. OH HERE ARE A COUPLE OF THE NUMBERS 4108445506/2076191468/2246495509

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I think that is auto-dialers giving you problems. They have computers that call all numbers and they know a certain percentage of people dont answer or hang up or whatever so the computers call more numbers than the telemarketers can handle. It sounds wastful but it really isnt because its cheap for them and even if it makes you mad you dont know who did it so repercussions are nill.

When you get a call and nobody is on the other end, it means just before you were called (or answered) more than the normal number of people picked up the phone when the auto dialer called people. Dont worry, by them missing talking to you, your number goes back into the computer to be called again soon. It also tells the computer that you are a person that answers the phone so your number becomes more valuable to telemarketers. So much so that it usually gets sold to other companies that do the same thing.

Yep autodialing telemarketers. We have called id and unless it's a number we know we let the machine answer it. And on the machine we have a long greeting. Most autodialers give up after so long and hang up. If it's turns out to be someone we know they start to leave a msg and we then pick it up.

(quoted from post at 00:41:47 06/07/13) Guys here is what happens You get calls (numerous) many don't have a person or a prerecorded spiel. There is simple no one there. If you try to look the number up or call it back no luck don't exist etc. MY QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE CALL FOR??? mY CELL HAS CALLER ID SO I DON'T ANSWER NON LOCAL NUMBERS. OH HERE ARE A COUPLE OF THE NUMBERS 4108445506/2076191468/2246495509

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I registered my home phone and my two cell phones with DONOTCALL. It's fast and simple, but takes some time to be effective.
I filed so many complaints--concerning my home phone--that I finally gave up and cancelled it. We very seldom get unwanted calls on our cells but when we do, we file a complaint. I think the biggest problem with the home phone was that [b:f1b480a39a]"The American Institute For Cancer Research,[/b:f1b480a39a] calls on a different number EVERY DAY! There is no way--with all the technology we have today, to stop them.
They are smarter then the DNC and the phone companies don't care because they make more money from these scammers then from us!

Add your # to the National "Do not call registry" at the link below. It should help. If you"ve given your number to some agency you do legitimate business with, you may have given them permission to share your # without realizing.

I"m very careful with my #... I don't even give it to the hair dresser. When I sell something, I use an $18 Walmart "pay-as-you-go" phone with another #.
Do Not Call Registry...

You had calls from Baltimore MD, Portland ME, and Northbrook IL. Jim

I'm trying to help a guy with something similar right now, except from the other end of the spectrum. Irate people are calling this poor guy, screaming at him to quit calling and telemarketing to them, go the h.ll away. I mean these people are really upset. Problem is that the calls are not coming from this guy. The Caller ID to their homes and businesses are giving his number and coming up with a name of "Your Health Plan", robo calls, but they are occuring at times when the guy isn't even in his office, have access to his company phone, and his company has nothing to do with health care, but the robo calls are spread across the nation. The problem with trying to figure it out, is that the carrier may not be us, and those being called are not our customers, so we have no way to trace them. Its to the point that this poor fella is going to have to nicely and politely ask the irate people calling him to yell and tell him to knock it off, to file charges against him with their local telephone companies authorizing them to trace the incoming calls and press charges that will no doubt not be against him, because the calls are not coming from him. Whether it be intentional or accidental, someone is sending out the wrong Caller Line ID either through their carrier or from their phone system or PBX, which can and does happen from time to time. Since the callees are not our customers, we have no way to trace their incoming calls or records. This guy is our customer, but he's not making the calls. He is getting earfuls though when they dial his number expecting to get "Your Health Plan" that isn't him.

Things happen.

Mark

I learned something not to long ago. It seems the telemarketing system (bots) are programed to activate when it hears the word hello and if they don't hear it the line goes dead. Since I started answering my phone saying "Jim Here" those annoying calls have dropped off by close to 80%.

Mark: many of the more sophisticated telemarketers will "spoof" their number so that it looks like someone else is calling. The usual favorite is to spoof a number in the same area code as they are targeting because more people will pick up calls they think are local. Probably this particular telemarketer used your friend's number as their spoof, though more sophisticated systems will randomize numbers, not just use one. Spoofing is, of course, illegal to do, though until the feds start putting some teeth in their enforcement, it will continue. Still, you should report it, so that, at a minimum, there's a record of their activity, even if it probably won't do much to help your client.

If you are on verizon- the, 'Can you hear me now?' phone company, they might be calls telling you how many minutes you have used. Noticed some weird numbers like that on my phone and that is what it was, ends up in the text messages or somewhere.

Yep Tim. This guy is a user for a big customer. I do a lot of work at some power plants and intentionally changed the CLID on the switchroom phones to say that I'm calling from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. When I call the boss early in the morning and catch him off guard, he'll ask "Dallas?", and I'll say "Since last night when you sent me down here". Anyway, this poor fella is getting beat up. Since we're not the carrier of the callees, about the only way are going to nail it is to ask some of them to authorize pressing charges through their local telcos, and let them trace it back to the source. I too hate telemarketers and know what they are going through with robo calls that hangup as soon as you say "I'm on the do not call..."...click in my ear with a repeat callback the next day, day, month.

Mark

(quoted from post at 20:18:00 06/06/13) Yep Tim. This guy is a user for a big customer. I do a lot of work at some power plants and intentionally changed the CLID on the switchroom phones to say that I'm calling from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. When I call the boss early in the morning and catch him off guard, he'll ask "Dallas?", and I'll say "Since last night when you sent me down here". Anyway, this poor fella is getting beat up. Since we're not the carrier of the callees, about the only way are going to nail it is to ask some of them to authorize pressing charges through their local telcos, and let them trace it back to the source. I too hate telemarketers and know what they are going through with robo calls that hangup as soon as you say "I'm on the do not call..."...click in my ear with a repeat callback the next day, day, month.

Mark

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Why would anyone want to talk to me when they know I don't want them calling. Looks like to me if they know I'm on a no call list it is to their advantage not to call.

It's gotten so bad at our place that I always look at the caller ID. If I don't know who it is, I don't answer. If it's important they can leave a message. 99% of time time they don't.

we get them too peddlers even have access to unlisted numbers somehow, ours is unlisted, as i dont want to have the thing ringing off the wall all day, i just use caller id , if i dont know the number, i dont answer the phone,

It's a numbers game--very, very few people "want" telemarketers to call, whether or not you put your name on the Do Not Call list. It costs them money to buy the Do Not Call list and check their numbers against it, plus they figure enough people will buy whatever they're selling to make it worth the cost whether they're on the DNC list or not, especially as the cost of noncompliance with the law is, so far, so low as to not be worth their while to comply.

Tele marketers should get a deadly disease and die slowly.