"Name not found" because it was this guy calling you.
Posted on 07/07/2015 7:09:09 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Many people dislike receiving robocalls. Araceli King disliked receiving 153 of them from a single company.
Time Warner Cable Inc must pay the insurance claims specialist $229,500 for placing 153 automated calls meant for someone else to her cellphone in less than a year, even after she told it to stop, a Manhattan federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
King, of Irving, Texas, accused Time Warner Cable of harassing her by leaving messages for Luiz Perez, who once held her cellphone number, even after she made clear who she was in a seven-minute discussion with a company representative.
The calls were made through an "interactive voice response" system meant for customers who were late paying bills.
Time Warner Cable countered that it was not liable to King under the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act, a law meant to curb robocall and telemarketing abuses, because it believed it was calling Perez, who had consented to the calls.
But in awarding triple damages of $1,500 per call for willfully violating that law, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said "a responsible business" would have tried harder to find Perez and address the problem.
He also said 74 of the calls had been placed after King sued in March 2014, and that it was "incredible" to believe Time Warner Cable when it said it still did not know she objected.
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She’ll get the money in one dollar increments off her bill.
Geez where’s my cash, I get phone calls from “Name Not Found” CONSTANTLY both cell phone and home phone
Good. When I bought a new phone from Verizon, it was CLEAR almost immediately that the phone number was “foreclosed” on....lol. Every single call was from some creditor and it was ANNOYING........SO ANNOYING.....until one day I said, I am going to screw with them. And I acted like I was the guy....his name was Bruce and I became Bruce with the creditors saying of course I will send you money or gave a false credit card number or whatever I could do to make their lives MISERABLE. I also made up a sob story to waste their time.....this happened from 2011 until around 2014 and now on a very rare occasion I get a call but not as bad as 10 calls a day in 2011.
Anyone have Brigitte’s address and phone number? That hag {yeah I know it’s a generated voice but still annoying} is a huge menace to society. Brigitte calls up to four times a day sometimes.
“Can I sue the National Senate Republican Committee for their nonstop robocalls?”
Funny you should mention that. No. By amazing coincidence, there is an exception to the law written in to cover just that.
You can block “unknown” callers very easily on an android galaxy phone.
Ditto with the VOIP service I use for my home phone.The filtering capabilities I have with it are quite sophisticated and effective. And very inexpensive.
ROTFLMOA....that is so funny....I love it. I needed that laugh today.
"Name not found" because it was this guy calling you.
Lots of Apps out there that will block unwanted calls and texts as well. With most of them, you can even create block lists adding numbers from your phone’s call/message logs.
I’ve gotten a phone call every day (sometimes twice a day) from AT&T for the last 15 months. I think I’m on a first name basis now with all of their telemarketing people.
Why not, take them to small claims to avoid attorneys, unless your state allows it
to be upgraded to a higher court. I think first you must be on the no call list, and
at the very least tell them to stop calling.
I was being harassed to the point of five calls a day by some robo marketing
company. No matter what I did I couldn't get contact with a living person and
it was extremely annoying. The first step was to place my number on the no call
list. Then during one call I pressed their #1 to make them remove me from their list.
It tapered off and the calls eventually stopped. I was on the verge of hiring
a detective to find the company to sue the hell out of them.
Nobody needs harassment.
Oh then you’d love Tom Mabe and the telemarketer calling the homicide scene recording. LOL.
My BIL leads them on and then when they ask his name he says “Jack”, and your last name? “Meoff”. They usually hang up at the point.
When I get the caller ID from “unavailable,” my policy is “that makes two of us.” A ringing phone does not have a right to be answered.
I had an IP-based home phone # that had previously been the # of a VERY bad, check-bouncing woman. I told them CONSTANTLY that this was our phone, we didn’t know of her, and so on. They tried every dirty trick including having a youngish girl call up and ask happily, “is ****** there?” I finally recorded the call and told them that the next time, I was calling the police. They stopped, but the damage was done, we got rid of the “home phone”. The only people who called were trying to sell us stuff of trying to collect money from someone else who bought stuff and didn’t pay for it.
With my S4 no app is needed. It’s part of the operating system.I haven’t found the need for anything more sophisticated with it. So far....
Jack Mehoff lol... I knew that guy in college.
My alter ego is Mr. Jablomey. But you can call me Haywood.
A classic prank, to be sure. Here it is (about 3 1/2 minutes):
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