I get calls from the Tea Party, Newt Gingrich, and David Bossie, and I let them go to voicemail which they never leave any message.
They called me too. Wanted money. I think they are indeed a scam. They got hold of a list somehow of people like us.
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I said I’m not joining anything. I support individual candidates.
Then I said some not nice things.
Ya think that some GOPe type may have sold a list?
I’m reading an interesting scifi book called “Afterparty.” It’s about life in the near future wherein anyone can get a “chemjet printer” and make any designed drug they want. Of course, society collapses. That aside, there is one page in which a character gives a rant about the evil Tea Party and how members are all corrupt lunatics and how dangerous it was “before it disappeared.” I almost stopped reading there, but the cost of the book kept me going.
I find it difficult to believe that it was actually the Tea Party.
Anyone can call themselves the Tea Party.
Meaningless.
Where is their membership roll?
Ask them for the contact info for their registered agent and the actual name and address under which they are doing business. If they cannot give that information then they are not legit.
These days I don’t trust anyone. Phone calls, emails, Internet pop ups and ads are a waste of time with me. When I want something, I’ll contact them. Everything else is a waste of time.
Uh, it's scammer. If they are willing to do a $100 fraud at best, and id/credit card fraud at worse, do you think a simple list is going to stop them?
Any way, put the number into http://800notes.com, and you'll see that they also have been claiming to be the IRS, etc.
It’s been a while—it was sometime right before or right after the 2012 election.
I got a call from some group and they were somehow connected to Rand Paul. I think it was something about Unions? It was a while back.
I pondered that call a bit because I’ve never supported either politician (Rand or Ron), I’ve never been a part of any of their websites, I just couldn’t figure out why they were calling.
I'm not giving anything to groups anymore, unless it's established and has a proven track record. It's better to give something to a candidate who's making an important contribution to constitutional conservative principles in their campaign.
JMHO
If you ever give your phone number or address to any party group or candidate, and especially if you ever give any of them money, that information will be sold or given away so that before you know it, you will be getting calls or mail from groups or candidates that you have never even heard of.
It’s called a sucker list.
So you gave your unlisted phone number to the do not call list and wonder why you're getting calls? Really?
thought so....
Anybody can call themselves the TEA party.
1. I figure all unsolicited calls by organizations are scams.
2. Even if they are not scams, I do not want to waste my time with ANY of them.
3. I NEVER give money or information over the phone.
4. As soon as I hear boiler room sounds, a foreign accent, “My name is ...”, “Is this ...”, or “Is the man [woman] ...”, I hang up.
5. Finally, I immediately block the number using the Panasonic phone blocking capability. This last part is the best part because if they call back, the phone only rings once and then automatically blocks further access. Some orgs are really persistent and change up numbers when this happens, but I just block again, and pretty soon they too give up.
[OTOH, I do like to goof the Indian criminals that call and say they’ve detected viruses being emitted from my computer and want a lot of money to fix the problem. Either I pretend naivete and incredulousness, and lead them down the primrose path, asking how they could possibly know something like that, oh, and then you must know my IP number, and then, well what IS my IP number, until they know they’ve been had and abruptly hang up, or I say, “Well, that’s funny, because my computer hasn’t been turned on in a week.”, in which case they also abruptly hang up.]
I get these same calls constantly.
Not legit. There are false flag ops from hard left marxist groups using the name “Tea Party” all over.
And being on a do not call list doesn’t get you off. When I first got my cell number I got hundreds of calls the first couple months from debt collectors. Just in the past month I have gotten 10 calls a day from VOIP spoofed IDs telling me I recently requested info about refinancing, lower credit card rates, and, my personal favorite, a very angry sounding “investigator” saying I need to call immediately in regards to bad checks I’ve been writing. All robo-calls and all scams.
waste as much of their time as possible
People are using this as a scam technique because they know the POPULARITY of the TEA party movement (not being reported by the media)
But anyone who is a real TEA party follower knows this is not real. There was a set of commercials on Patriot Channel satellite radio during the last election trying to raise money for ‘TEA PARTY candidate (I forget who) but the actual organization that ran the radio commercials had nothing to do with that candidate and kept 90 % of the money for itself
WATCH WHO YOU DONATE TO! Only directly to candidates you support AND only directly to their official websites
I don’t know about Tea Party calls but my scam calls usually start out, “Attention Senior Citizens . . .” or, “We are calling to notify you about a serious problem with your Microsoft Windows account . . .” However, I’ve never gotten beyond those points in those calls. Political calls, I block or hang up on as soon as they come in.