Telemarketers

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Hi,

I forgot, NEVER give your phone # out to a business.

If they have to contact you, give them a throwaway e-mail address that you check every day.

All of these businesses that ask for phone #'s make money selling your info. Whenever you fill out a warranty registration have you ever wondered why they ask so many questions?

Because they are making money selling YOU!

Just do not give it out and you will not be bothered.

crazedchef

My favorite answer was "This is Richies Taxidermy: You snuff 'em we stuff 'em."
Ever since I got rid of my land line and got a cell-phone I have not received one call from
a telemarketer. Sometimes spam and adware gets through my computer's
firewall. That I find extremely annoying!!

beauty within-- turn off the ringer and let family know that they should email you. Explain that you've been getting harassing calls (which is true).

I often turn the ringer off, it drives my husband nuts, but every time the phone rings, I feel attacked.

I tell them that if the contact me again that i will take legal action for harrassment. I have a list at home with the companies and dates. I will take action if they contact me again.

I say....

Ohhh sorry , thousand apoligies, I am just the Butler here, would you like me to take a message.! !! - at least that whay they can feel jealous.

we are on the do not call list, and it actually worked. we never ever get telemarketing calls anymore. haven't since the do not call list came out.

lol thats another good one to scare them off, i hate when telemarketers get acess to cell phone numbers, because the person who picks up gets charged for that stupid and annoying sales call, what id do if i had a cell phone and that happend is "if you call again i will charge you for this call, you called a cell phone and cell phones arent suppose to be called by telemarketer or even be on your list for one thing!!"

with firewalls, if it comes in the ports that are open such as used for http and html and ssl it will go through, there is ways you can close ports but its not recommended unless you know exactly what is wrong and what port it is. when i had norton symantec software, there was a time when it wouldnt let me on aol (when i had it) and was only able to connect if i had norton either turned off or live update or protection off found out later it was one of the ports was disabled that aol needed it was soemthing havign to do with ACS (aol connectivity services (i had dialup) i later then fixed it and worked just fine (after no help from aol or symantec tech support)

i now use yahoo's CA(aka etrust) and whats good about that is soon CA will be moving office near me so id be good, if i needed advanced help i could call local and not be charged for help or get some brainless untrained tech. (no offense to any call center employees that use wp)

there are also seperate programs that can protect you from adaware and spyware and spam,

for spam, dont reply to the messages, if it looks legit, manually type the address into browser (such as if ones from ebay or paypal)

spyware/adaware, try adjusting your security level in browser higher (not sure for mac and linux) but with windows its adjusted in internet explorer properties, raise slider to medium high and also downlaod spybot s-d, adaware se, A2(A SQUARED) also delete temprpary internet files and cookies, its advised that you run antivirus and apy/adaware programs ONCE A WEEK as well as deleting the temp stuff,

richie, what antivirus do you use???

good luck and dont get scammed

sorry if this sounded like another troubleshooter, just trying to help richie