How to torment telemarketers

[pipi_k]

336. Going to resurrect

this thread for a rant...


Last week a call came in, identified on the Caller ID as coming from my little rural town. In fact, it was almost identical in every way to MY phone number except for the very last digit.

It was that damned "card services" shit again. I googled the phone number and found that the owner of that number lives less than two miles from my house. I thought, OMG...is he being that much of an asshole???

Until it hits me. The telemarketers are scamming with actual phone numbers, probably chosen for each city under the premise that if it's a number similar to our own, we'll be more likely to answer it.

OK so I stopped thinking our neighbor is an asshole.

Just about ten minutes ago that number called again. Same card services bullshit. I don't answer.

Then I wonder, OMG...I wonder what information someone could get if a telemarketer used MY number?

I google my phone number. Holy shit. First result is Mr Pipi's name and our address!!!

So. If some asswipe telemarketer ever decides to fake my phone number and the person on the receiving end of the call gets really pissed off and googles it, MY address will show up. If he's not particularly bright, he may not realize it's a fake, and decide to make nasty phone calls to us. Or, if really a jackass about it, decide to inflict mayhem on my house or something. Yeah I'm in the woods, but it's easy to find using Google Maps.

I know this is likely not the fault of the individual people calling, but the fault of the companies themselves.

Fuckers.

I hate them.