Indian Phone Calls: How do I Block them?

Just get an unlisted number. Had very few since we did that. Unless you are on some database which is being distributed (illegally under the Privacy legislation), they usually won’t get you

markk
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You can always change your number and have it unlisted at that time (that way it should not make it to a mailing list)

OR get caller ID and bar the bad numbers or just don’t answer the “Private” numbers

markk
Happy Hunting
http://www.kentscollections.com

It will be tough to legislate against calls originating in another country – particularly if they use predictive diallers from a database and haven’t purchased contact lists. They may just have programmed in all phone numbers from e.g. 02 8000-0000 to 02 9999-9999, and they record which are valid and dump those that are not.

This can be done with any half decent CRM system – the person calling you follows a script on the screen and enters your response so a profile starts to build.

Most companies in Australia give you the choice to opt-in or opt-out of marketing but you have to read the fine print to find out which is the default.

brilliant resi.

Thats the way greg……….making others angry is much more fun.

Other good phone conversations are:

“…..oh my god, my appendix has burst…can you call the ambulance ……..aaaaargh….”

” singing na na na na na na na na nan ana nan ann ….BATMAN! ” repeatedly.

Parrot and mimic every question they ask you but in a BEE-GEEs voice.

Answer a question with a question like:

Ask them the times tables starting at, what is 1 x 1?

Ask them rhetorical zen questions like “if a tree falls in the wood and no-one is around, what sound does it make?

Or the Austin Powers classic, just cut off all their questions with uh. zip-it. nada. eh. zoop.

Tell them that their mum would be better qualified to answer that and would they like to speak with her as you’re in bed with her at the moment. (heavy panting works well)

Ask them to hold and then start humming Kylie Minogues “Locomotion” or any other song that gets stuck in peoples heads for days.

Fake an vocal orgasm with “oh baby,,,,OH Baby,,,,OH BABY……” in response to all questions.

Answer all questions with “I don’t know” or “Why?”

Tell them you are happy to help if they would just answer a short survey you have for them!

Animal Noises work well.

Screaming MAY DAY …..MAY DAY…. as soon as you realise its marketing.

Recite the Lords Prayer with hysterical yelps and screams of terror.

Say very slowly …..” I know who you are and I’m going to hunt you down”……….end with an evil laugh.

Explain you would much rather discuss entymology and ask if they too are amazed at the migratory flights of the eastern equadorial butter moth?

Blast an air horn into the phone speaker.

Excuse yourself and then gargle a glass of water for as long as they will hold the line.

Start ordering as if you are at a MacDonalds drive through. Change your order from a large to medium and then back to a large thick shake. If you are really adventurous you could make fake static noises.

Lifexperience

Hi All,

Anytime I get one of these unsolicited marketing calls, even if it’s the Red Cross asking for donations, about 10-seconds into the call you just know, so I just talk right over them and say “I never do any business or make purchases over the phone. Thank you.” Then I just hang up.

I’ve never had anyone call back.

Now if you really want to get onto BLOODY ANNOYING let’s talk about e-mail spam.

I have had the same e-mail address with Ozemail for nearly 8-years and associated with that master e-mail address I have several sub-addresses which are used for our property business and individual persons in the household which are variously used on personal and business dealings, letterheads etc.

Due to my gross computer and Internet illiteracy 8-years ago I stupidly downloaded everything that caught my eye and as a consequence my master e-mail address got onto databases which means that today I get approx 100 spams per day.

I eventually got fed up so I called Ozemail tech support to see what could be done about it.

What I suggested was that we could delete the master e-mail address (which is the only corrupted one) and change it for a new one.

Ozemail Tech tells me that if we delete the master e-mail address we have to also loose the sub-addresses as that’s how their computers are set up. Cannot move sub-addresses to new master address.

After much disbelief that in this day and age of technology they could not just tell the computer to do what I was asking and even threatening to close my accounts and move to another ISP here I am stuck between a rock and a hard place coz I want to keep those sub addresses but I don’t want the spam.

Tech then suggested that I use the free Ozemail option of them filtering my mail for me and making the decision about what I actually get sent through each day.

When I said that I deal with a lot of new people from all over the world with my business and did not really feel comfortable allowing a computer to make those decisions for me, I was told that Ozemail keeps all filtered spam for 4-weeks and that once per month I could log in and go through them to see if there was anything I wanted to keep before they were deleted forever.

I asked him to do the math of 30-days x 100 spams per day and then figure out how long it would take me to sift through 3,000 e-mails once a month.

He shrugged (if you can do that over the phone) and said, “well those are your choices I can’t help you any further”.

Incidentally I am still with Ozemail, so I can keep my sub addresses, but I now filter all incoming mail through a program called Mail Washer. There’s a free version online, but the paid for version is much better because as you start using it and marking things for deletion and bouncing it begins to learn what’s good and what’s junk.

Phew, that’s a long 2 cents.

Cheers, Nobleone.

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