Posted on 12/12/2004 9:10:18 PM PST by jb6
El Paso Police Investigating Phone Call
UPDATED: 8:41 AM EST December 8, 2004
A Detroit-area woman received a threatening letter in the mail after hanging up on a telemarketer calling from Texas, according to Detroit TV station WDIV.
TELEMARKETER THREAT
Video: Woman Describes Telemarketing Threat How Do You Handle Telemarketers? Read Threatening Letter
Jill Beyer, of Waterford Township, Mich., said she received the letter about one week after she refused to donate money in a recent call from a telemarketer.
"He wanted a donation for the veterans' association, which the veterans don't get that much of that money. That's why I wouldn't donate to him," Beyer said.
Beyer (pictured, left) said the man refused to take no for an answer so she hung up the phone.
"I slammed the phone very hard," Beyer said.
The letter arrived postmarked from El Paso, Texas. The first lines read, "Before you are rude to another telemarketer, you should keep in mind that he or she has your phone number and your address. Many of them live in your own state and most don't give a (expletive)! " (Read Full Letter)
"It makes me nervous. Obviously he's not playing with a full deck and even my kids are nervous," Beyer said.
El Paso police are reportedly taking the threat seriously and are searching for the person who sent the letter. Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
BellSouth sucks. Our line drops at least 15 times a day when I am on the internet conducting business. The clients are becoming really pissed. I found out that we have fiber optic lines at the street (we just built a bran new house in a private subdivision with all underground utilites) BellSouth refuses to put in the network, allowing us DSL high-speed broad-band communications.
Unfortunately the do not call list doesn't apply to fundraising for charities and to "surveys".
But screening your calls works.
I just hope they won't stop making answering machines, now that most people just have voice mail on their phone, which of course preclude screening your calls, and caller ID-s are useful, but you might have friends calling you with their numbers blocked, or someone calling, whom you do want to talk to from a place, where your called ID will just say "unknown number" or some such.
I recommend to everyone, buy an answering machine.
As a home owner I am renting my phone line from the telephone corporation that owns the telephone line.
Since I am renting this line -- paying for it's use I tell the telemarketers NEVER TO CALL AGAIN or I will sue them for harassment and charge them $10,000 for each time they call me -- after all they are taking my time up!
IIRC, the system automatically attenuates to 90db.
Just hang up.
FCC really goes after them. I suggest you collect a couple of weeks worth of faxes you got, fill out the form AND send them a letter. I did that, and in a couple of weeks all faxes stopped.
Initially I would get a few faxes every now and then, but then there were more and more and more. Finally I had enough.
I think of all the marketing efforts, the faxes are the worst, because they are using up YOUR paper, YOUR toner, tie up YOUR phone/fax line, to spread their ads.
As I said, I solved the telemarketing problem easily, I don't mind junk mail, I can just toss them in a few minutes, I am not even up in arms over e-mail spam -- annoying, but not impossible to live with.
But junk faxes really do make me mad, for the reason I stated above. The nerve of people to make ME pay for THEIR advertisement!
Can you turn off the ringer on your bedroom phone before you go to bed?
Do you have a couple favorite fax programs that one can download for free, that you'd recommend?
Most junk mail have a postage paid envelope with it I put anothers junk mail in it a send it off. Dont have anything to put in them send leaves or gum wrappers whatever.
Same can be said of prostitutes. I accord them equal respect.
Don't give money over the phone. Only a small % of the funds go to the charity. If you want to make a donation, get the name, look them up and confirm that they are legitimate, and call the charity directly.
During the day, I simply don't pick up any call that says "unknown caller", or if I'm feeling spiteful, I'll pick up the rec'r and immediately put it back down so that the ringing will stop and the caller will be out a few cents and some time for having made the connection...but my BellSouth service is supposed to supply a "don't call" service, too, for those who will not ID themselves.
"I screen my calls, too, but the ones at 5 in the morning still wake me up..."
Turn the ringer off before you go to bed. That way they can still leave a message if it is important, but won't wake you otherwise.
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