I have been getting an extreme amount of "telemarketing" calls that just hang up or say they have the wrong number. They obviously don't because they call all the time, some of them daily. If I ask who it is, they hang up. If I ask for a number, they hang up. They will ask for the owner, even if I say hold on he's right here, they hang up.

Does anyone have any idea what the actual benefit to this is? Who would possibly pay someone to sit around calling people and hanging up all day?

I can never get any info whatsoever out of them before they hang up, but putting the numbers into google reveals that they do this to everyone. I even marked some of the numbers in the callerID and will answer the phone and say "please don't hang up, I am really curious as to what you actually do" and they still say wrong number and hang up on me.

WTF is the point? I cannot think of one valid reason to continue to do this. Sometimes they say they are checking for disconnected lines, then hang right up. If so, why do they continue to call up to twice a day?

Best I can figure, is that some phone company wants to keep their lines active for some reason, maybe false market share, and just calls every number they have from various call centers a couple times a day. I don't know.

Some of the numbers....
866-390-4482
877-307-8442
402-930-3659
231-224-2097
616-980-2081
866-235-0829

All of those were from just today! On my company cell phone! Every one the same thing.

Does anybody have any idea what these morons actually want or are doing? Or do they simply try to frustrate me?

 

If you haven't done so already, put your number on the national do not call list. It cut out 95% of the calls as soon as I did it:
https://www.donotcall.gov/

 

We're on the do not call list and still get calls from at least one of the 866 numbers liste above. Same experience. I'd guess their phishing for something, but cant figure out what. Maybe the can peruse the hard drive of a computer if it is used as an answering machine. Who knows? I just lift the reciever and set it back down when that number shows up.

 

The only thing I could guess (and I hope I'm wrong) is that they're fishing for a pattern to numbers they dial... trying to figure out when someone is home and when they aren't.

I work in the telemarketing buisness (I'm not one, nor do I work in a call center... but I do work for a company that sells the hardware and software, mainly, to collections and telemarketers), and the best thing I can tell you to do is A. Get on the do-not call list. And B. If they keep bugging you, report them. It's a HUGE *** fine PER CALL if they call someone on the DNC list.

 

i love to fack with telemarketers all the time while im at work...****es funny as hell. longets ive kept somebody on hold so far was 1/2 hour before i just hung up on them cause i had to go

 

I messed with a telemarketer before and he flipped out at me...started cussing me and everything. I couldn't believe it. He threatened to call me all the time, but by the time we were done with the conversation, he had apologized.

Here's the link Nutbag

 

i have put my number on the "do not call list" but they still ring. They are devious little monkeys who know all the loop holes. they really drive me up the walls. I just tell I don't speak english and just hang up. they should get a real bloody job, not annoy people after a hard days work.

 

I get those calls but nobody is on the other side. Freaks me out cause I think they are stealing my phone # or some crazy **** like that.

 

I was getting 3 calls a week from AT&T. Finally I called shareholder services and got the number for a Marketing vice-president, she told me there was 40 call centers in the U.S. and I was somehow on all their lists and that it was impossible to be taken off of them at the same time.

What I did was I got the name of the Southeast regional vice president (Emilio Echave)for AT&T wireless from their website. I looked him up on 411.com, the dummy was there, home phone and address in West Palm Beach. So I called him, he lived 3 hours away and I explained to him how we were nearly neighbors and how he was getting under my skin. I nicely explained to him that I didn't want to have this conversation in person and then I told him his home address and direction there and to his office. I sent him two letters, one to his home and one to his office thanking him for helping me in this matter, just so he was sure that there was no mistake that he was personally responsible for the harassment and he would be held accountable.

Very nicely we agreed that we wouldn't ever have to speak to each other again and that I would NEVER be called again by AT&T. I never was. Two weeks later his secratary called me to make sure everything was good and I thanked her for her concern.

My advice is to learn about your enemy and then nicely let them know that you may be a psycho.