Tips to get rid of telemarketers from former phone marketer

Just don't answer the phone. If you don't have Caller ID, get it, and if you don't recognize the name or phone number, let it ring. They won't leave a message, and then go in and block that number from calling you.

Do what my wife does......speak in a "jibberish" language.....Dib bo ja ma de pi ara ma je go ba la ina ...........etc.......they hang up real quick......

ON ROBO CALLS......IF GIVEN THE OPTION TO PRESS A # TO GET REMOVED FROM THE CALLING LIST...DON'T PRESS THAT NUMBER.....JUST HANG UP.

BY PRESSING THE NUMBER YOU WILL THEN HAVE A LIVE PERSON TO DEAL WITH.

I have my voicemail set at "This cal is being Recorded" and if I answer my first words are"This call is being Recorded", and every time they hang up and never call back

All of theses jerks are illegal. I am on the natl. do not call list and my states. if you call back the number I'm told the number is not in service. There is no way to stop them. I have filled complaints and I get a letter back that there is nothing can be done as they are using equipment that can not be traced.

Execute a few telemarket operaters as China do for some bad apples. Then see what happen.

The answer to their call is NO,, the second answer is NO and finally,, what part of NO do you not understand ??

Get a answering machine and screen your calls. They will give up.

I am on the national do not call list, tell them to stop calling, take me off the list (they usually hang up before I can finish saying this) and I say no over and over. They still cal relentlessly at all hours. When will this practice be deemed illegal?

Why has no one sued these companies for getting hurt while trying to get to the phone/ Maybe that would stop them.

"Do Not Call Registry" DOES NOT WORK !! Obviously not enforced, so what's the point ?

You see guys when you fire workers or they decide to leave their job and go somewhere else, they have a tendency to snitch and give our companies dirty tricks. It is like some police offers who get laid off they snitch to the media about what their former employee dirty tactics. So that is what they mean when you hear the phrase "What goes around, comes around!"

I told them 100 times put me on the do not call list and they still called until I moved and got a new number and then went to the website and my my name on the do not call list those people made me so mad when they keep calling , so glad it stopped .

One new one is a cut off message with the desired result of calling back. Years ago, I answered a telemarketer and asked for his number to call him back. When he started with the 800 number, I interrupted him and said "NO". I asked him for his personal home number so that I could call him back at 9:35pm on a Friday night to ask him if he likes "to be bothered". He clicked first. Remember when caller-ID devices first started to be available about 1985-6? Then cell phones were marketed to be "exclusive" and private to avoid people by having YOU control whom you wished to converse with. Now, we see cell phones aren't private and the result is it's all a scam. I also receive periodic calls from a woman that wants to discuss salvation. If I wanted religion, I'd go to church. Leave me alone.

That one that some have mentioned
( Credit Card Services) is a PAIN. .
The second you try to say something like "Take me off your calling list" they hang up, so they can claim they weren't told.
I really don't get why they use their resources so poorly ( Machines, manpower, efc)
What are the odds someone they've called 200 times and been hung up on by is suddenly going to say... "Yes, OHHH yes! Sell; me your services! "

Reporting them to the FCC is a waste of time..... I had a list once of a DOZEN different numbers they've used that are now not in use. I think they are based out of the USA and out of the FCC reach anyway.

I have found making pig noises into the phone is a good deterent also. They never call back after that. If I have time I let them do the sales pitch asking alot of dumb questions and tying up the telemarketer where they cant call someone else. I've had them hang up on me after I have talked to them and their supervisor. LOL

The National Do Not Call Registry is a waste of time. It only applies to personal phones, not businesses, and the telemarketers tend to ignore it. I have on my cell phones and home phone yet get just as many(or more) calls than my business phones. It is widely know that there are few prosecutions and all you have to do is claim you misdialed. Robo calls are illegal too but I still get them almost daily, mostly from Google. I wonder how they have time to make any money when they are calling me 3 times a day, every day?

why not just block them.

blocking them works for me.

I speak several languages. I actually have fun when they call.....