Posted on 06/28/2017 1:28:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Attorneys for Dorit and Ron Golan claim that more than 4 million calls were made to market Huckabee’s film, “Last Ounce of Courage,” which could potentially violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act that says unrequested messages with commercial content are illegal.
Individuals who could have received robocalls from the former governor received mailers last week, saying they may be eligible to become members of a lawsuit against the governor.
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The case was originally dismissed in May 2014, but the class action was certified by a St. Louis U.S. District Court judge in January.
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Obammy appoint the judge?
Robocalls are no better than hackers and internet scammers who try to hijack and rip you off.
Huckabee is guilty here. He should lose.
Because the courts don’t have anything better to deal with.
These class-action suits are almost always garbage. That said, FR used to call him “Huckster” for a reason.
How times change, how times change ...
I called him Huckleberry. And I hate robocalls...from ANYBODY about ANYTHING! It’s the main reason I cut off my land line.
I got one of the postcard saying I could participate in the class action lawsuit against Huckabee. I just threw it in the trash
I dislike robocalls, too. We still have a land line. Heck, I get garbage on my cell. “This is Rachel from Cardholder Services ...”.
I understand that “Governor Huckabee and Capitol Offense” was a good band. Maybe he should have given up on other stuff and just done that.
We are getting about 4 to 10 robocalls per day on our land line. I have been using nomorobo.com for a couple of years now. When a robocall comes in, our phone rings once, and then the call disappears into the ether.
If a call does get through, you can go on line to their website and report the robo phone number to them. It works great and is free.
They now have that service for cell phones but there is a fee for that service.
I will look into that. I’m annoyed by junk calls on my cell phone! Heck, I’m annoyed by my landline’s ringing long enough to annoy me.
*** got one of the postcard saying I could participate in the class action lawsuit against Huckabee. I just threw it in the trash ***
My deceased 13 yrs Dad got one, too. Think it mentioned Veterans who received robocall on the card. Threw it in the trash.
What if there was a device that could be added to a land line phone which would suppress incoming calls (ie no ring) if the originating number was not on list of approved as prepared by land line owner? Does anyone know of such a device? Would such a device be legal? I would be a buyer. I get a lot of unwanted calls from robots and people I don’t know.
There are a number of such devices available. Google “call blocker”. And yes, they are legal. I have one and it has almost totally eliminated junk calls. I don’t even get single rings, just blessed silence.
Better to Google “call blocker for landline”.
this is not about calls or Mike Huckabee.. it’s about hurting his daughter. This will come up during a presser.
However, recently, the spam filter has been failing. The phone number will share my area code and exchange and will not be in the spam database. But it will turn out to be spam, not a wrong number.
In fact, the other week, I got a call ostensibly from Betty, a person I've known for decades (we had got new cell phones from the same Circuit City about the same time years ago and thus had similar numbers). But the call was spam about my nonexistent credit card balance and what to do about it.
The problem is, caller-id is not secure. Hackers can spoof caller-ID at will, making possible various mischief, such as listening to an arbitrary person's voice-mail or calling in a SWAT-team on the person to protect against terrorism.
Or, in my case, getting me to pick up on a spam call.
Thank you so much for the tip. Do you know how it works? What I would like is: The device would check the incoming call against the approved list (this would work for unapproved numbers and calls which have no identifiable number). If the incoming failed, the device would take the line “off hook” and then after a half-second delay would then go “on hook” terminating the call and freeing the line. It would be nice if such actions were logged with time of day and captured phone number. Of course calls from approved numbers would pass unaffected.
I can only comment on the one that I personally use, which is an older version of the Sentry 2 model.
What it does is allows you to maintain a “white list” and “black list” (racist, of course). The white list is for numbers you want to get calls from, and the black is for numbers you don’t.
When you start out, both lists are empty. When someone calls your number, it plays a message to the caller basically saying that if you are a telemarketer, to remove the number from your list and hang up. Otherwise, the caller is to dial zero, and the ringer in the Sentry box will ring. You can pick up the phone and talk normally. That number is automatically added to the white list. In some cases you might have to remove that number from the white list and add it to the black list to block more persistent telemarketers.
Once the number is in the white list, the Sentry is transparent, and the phone rings normally using its own ringer. If in the black list, there is no ring. The phone line is picked up and immediately dropped. Either way, the calling number and time are displayed on the unit.
If you don’t answer a white list call, it goes to your recorder, though the Sentry “uses up” one of the rings, so if your recorder is set to start on the 4th ring, the phone will actually ring 3 times before the recorder starts.
One annoyance is that, at least with my recorder, once it starts you can’t pick up the phone and talk (as I could do before installing the Sentry). You have to wait until the recording is done, and then call the person back.
Older versions this device gave you no way to manually enter a number and put it into either list, but that has apparently been addressed in the latest version of the Sentry 2, and the Sentry 3 has a keypad to do that.
Some other products allow you to block certain area codes (e.g. many political money grubbers call from the 202 DC area code). I don’t think Sentry allows that.
Other blockers are worth considering as well, but I have no experience with any of them. There are plenty of user reviews that are worth reading.
What I particularly like about the Sentry is that the vast majority of robocalls never ring the Sentry OR the phone because the computer doesn’t respond to the recorded message, and doesn’t dial zero. So, you don’t actually have to affirmatively block those numbers. All you need to do is periodically clear out the call record memory.
Nomorobo is basically useless because it will always ring once.
One competitor (the one with the big red button) requires YOU to hit the button to block a number, which means you have to answer a junk call at least the first time. And since they constantly change numbers, they will keep getting through.
Once again, the Sentry is dead quiet when blocking calls, or when a robot declines to dial zero.
Another issue with the Sentry is the prerecorded message has a thick English accent, which can confuse the caller. The Sentry 3 allows you to record your own message.
All of these devices require caller ID to work.
I hope this helps! The junk calls were driving me crazy before my friend told me to get one of these!
Again thanks for all the detail. During the election season last year, I received countless political polling calls. I responded to none of them; I don’t like them nor trust the people who do them. IMO pollsters are trying to lead preferences and not measure them. When the ballots are marked and counted, you will know who won. In the meantime, media people can report actual news (polls aren’t news).
Sorry about all the bile! I’m definitely going to buy one of these blockers.
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