"How To Make A Telemarketer Cry"
 

from sd.....

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http://www.panix.com/~eck/telemarket.html

Rude Awakening
When the call came in the pre-dawn hours of November 12, it awoke me and my wife from a sound sleep. After groggily picking up the phone ? my heart suddenly pounding as I dimly expected news of a death in the family or other emergency ? I was appalled to hear a pre-recorded advertisement for a local handyman/landscaping service. I hung up without listening to the rest of the message.

Despite my best efforts, I couldn't get back to sleep because of the jolt of adrenalin. As I lay there cursing myself for not getting the company name and callback number, I decided to get even. Since I don't have Caller ID, I invested 75 cents in Verizon's *69 service to get the last caller's number. When I tried calling that number (240-453-XXXX), I got repeated busy signals; eventually, my call went through to what was obviously an autodialer trying to make outgoing calls.

I decided to plug the number into the reverse-lookup tool at anywho.com. (I could just as easily have used any of several similar tools.) Anywho gave me the caller's name ? I'll call him "ARS" ? and an address in Rockville, MD. Doing a forward lookup on the name turned up 4 more lines serving the same address; calls to those numbers resulted in busy signals all day long.

For good measure, I also checked Maryland's online real property records, and determined that ARS was the owner of record for the address in question. (FYI, there are similar free online real property search tools for numerous jurisdictions both near and far.)

The rest is here...
http://www.panix.com/~eck/telemarket.html

Total costs: Approximately $20.79 out of pocket, including *69 charge and filing & service fees, plus 2 trips to the courthouse and the occasional phone call (and keep in mind I could have gotten my out-of-pocket costs down to 75 cents with a little obstinacy)
Return on investment: $500 cash; a heaping serving of Revenge, The Dish Best Served Cold?; and one telemarketer who I am certain will never call me again

Loved It! Thanks Pop.

but it didn't happen to you right?

Lawyers get all the spoils.

i wish...lol

Great story

only weak telemarketers cry

Telemarketers are always calling and leaving long pre-recorded messages on my machine. If times get tough I may start filing some suits :-)

I like to try to get the live telemarketers to hang up on me. If they call about home financing I always say " Thank God someone is willing to give me money. I thought I was gonna have to get a job. When can I have the loot. " :)

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

some fucking company in Montreal has been calling my house every day, and I know it's some stupid research, but im never home when they call, but I hope to catch them tomorrow and give them so much shit

I had a telemarketer today call and said she got my number from a recent purchase that I made in full. I said " I am sorry , I did not give you my number and said goodbye". Immediately, the phone rang again and one her buddies goes " Yes, you gave out your number and we can call you ." Then she hung up.. LOL

Guess I pissed em off...

the joys of only having a cell phone. no telemarketers call you.

You're actually really lucky, I have telemarketers calling my cellphone all the time!

that must be illegal, cuz its costing you money

Hahaha... nice story.

I would have enjoyed it more if it wasn't a lawyer getting the revenge.

if any of you guys watch Crank Yankers on Comedy Central there is a guy named Jim Florentine who does the voice of "Special Ed" he has a website called Terrorizing Telemarketers and this guys comes up with all kind of crazy shit to do and say to telemarketers, he has some free mp3's and some cd's for sale, I bought them and I have LOADS of ideas to fuck with telemarketers now, if fact I couldn't wait until a telemarketer called me... it was about 2 or 3 weeks, but they finally called and I got to fuck with them.... man, it was pretty damn fun! Check him out if you have the time

better yet...download his shit off of kazaa and play it during a traffic jam.

heh, yup, you can do that too ;) did you listen to some?? pretty funny shit huh...

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