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Several months ago an organization calling itself the "Childrens leukemia fund" called my house and begged for money and my wife gave them a check for $20. (my wife thought it was legitimate)
After that time these leaches continue to call my home 2-3 times per month. I have said all kinds of foul words to these people other then threatening to kill them and they continue to call my house. The last time they called I got their phone # and address. I need to call the state attorney general and get these people charged with fraud. I looked up the phone # on the web and there are complaints against this so called charity organization.
So.......If you get a call from the childrens Leukemia fund tell them where to go.
And I guess that goes for any of this type of crap, American cancer society, lung association, aid to veterans, Fraternal order of police. Etc.
I guess if you have no conscience and you want to make money it is very lucrative. if you are scumbag.
I am sick of this schitt.
 
My mother taught me to say 'We do not respond to telephone solicitation' and hang up. There are a lot of phone charity scams out there.
Zach
 
Better yet, stride confidently into the 21st Century, and get caller ID. Don't pick up unless you recognize the caller. They'll leave a message if its a legitimate call.
 
Well,I don't like people screening my calls and YOU do? I have people calling me long distance and I think it's rude to ignore their call,plus I have to pay to call them back.Caller ID is a nasty service usually used by folks who are avoiding bill collectors.I have nothing to hide and consider myself not rude.
 
Well, I've never been called by a bill collector. I think that's because I've never had a delinquent account. Funny how that works. . .

I'll have to admit that sometimes I do pick up on the unknown numbers. And invariably, its the nnalert National Committee, giving me an opportunity to send them some money.

Most everybody now has calling plans that don't really cost them anything. I'll stand by my post- leave me a message if its someone I might want to talk to. If the cost is a problem, just mention it, and I'll send you a quarter! Even if you're someone I don't know!
 
Used to be pestered by some policeman's association soliciting for disadvantaged children. He had a deep authoritative voice like some big cop would have. Got tired of him pestering us so I finally told him in a mild way that we don't want his calls anymore . He said "OH, SO YOU DON"T LIKE CHILDREN, HUH!!!" CLICK! Never heard from him again. Then I started hearing reports about a scammer soliciting for a police organization that didn't exist. We have caller ID now just because of callers like him. Jim
 
I"m with Mike on this one for shure. If I don"t know the number I don"t answer. I"m on the no call list but it doesn"t work for nonprofit organizations. I figure if someone is screening my call they don"t want to talk to me anyway so whats the point in bothering them. If its a business thats screening me I guess they won"t be getting any of my money.
 
Must be nice--I routinely get calls from bill collectors, invariably from places I don't have an account with! Problem is, I've got a fairly common last name for my area, and lots of collectors do a "shotgun" approach--they just call every person in the phone book with that last name and then ask you if you know the number of the person they actually want! Yet another reason that I screen 100% of my calls. Telemarketers prey on people who think it's rude to not pick up the phone, think it's rude to hang up on someone, think it's rude to not answer questions, think it's rude to tell someone "no", etc. etc. etc., and telemarketing sales scripts are designed to take advantage of these traits. It's far more rude to call someone who has indicated (through their participation on the Do Not Call list or other means) that they do not wish to be harassed in this manner.
 
Probably 90% of the calls we get are solicitors. Most block their identity and don't leave a message, why should I talk to them?

The one that really makes me mad is my own phone company; when they get started the phone rings about once an hour but they never leave a message so I know it isn't a billing problem.
 
If you pick up and find it is a begger press number 3 on key pad and a automated voice says your number and will be removed. U Verse cable TV the phone number and name will appear on the TV screen when the phone rings. Don't get up too often to answer the phone.
 
I have caller-Id because I like to know who im talking to before I pick up the phone. I still always answer the phone.
 
I get the calls for the Wisconsin Sheriff Asso. I guess it is a legitimate organization but all the money goes to the big cities and none to the rural departments. I just tell them to send a officer to my house and I will give him the money. They say that they don't do it that way. I tell them that is the only way that they will get it and then they hang up on me.
 
I am having a hard time getting by myself in these times.There is no money for any one else.I will help my friends in trouble but any one else is SOL.
 
All the whinning they did about Hayti had me about convinced to give them some money. But I resisted and now hear that most of those funds have about two thirds of the money wasted due to fraud and outright stealing. Now I am proud to say I didn't give them a dime.

Gene
 
Simple solution, dont answer the phone. I havent answered my home/business line in 15 years, I let the answering machine take the call, matter of fact we dont even have the ringer on, on the phone. People who I want to talk to call my cell#. Works for us no tela marketers or scamers. Only my customers leave messages for me, then I return there call. I laugh at my dad, when tele marketers call and he always answers his phone, he tries nicely to get rid of them, I tell him to just hang up!
 
I wouldnt give Haiti a dime either. Massive fraud with that clustered up fluck of a disaster. They cant even pick up the garbage and the rubble, so why should I help them.
 
Oh oh oh...the ones I like are the telemarketers that answer by calling me by my first name only like they are some long lost best friend and then follow that up with generic chit chat right before they start their sales pitch! Thats effin priceless, lol.
Tool salesmen, insurance agents...yada yada yada. I answer the phone all the time, I hate to hear the darn phone ring and always thought it was rude to not answer if I was there, besides..they just keep calling till they get an answer anyway.
One tool salesman with the above listed approach called me one evening when I wasn't particularly busy anyway, I could tell by his mannerism what he was assoon as I answerd the phone. I let him go through his 5 minute chit chat and sales pitch and had him tell me about all his tool sets. As he got to each one and described them I said no I have two of those already what else do you have, took him ten minutes to get wise to my scam, lol. He finally asked why I was wasting his time and I said same reason you are wasting mine..I'm not doing anything important. Never heard from them again, lol.
 
guru, i agree with you on the constant barrage of telephone solicitation. try running a business and dealing with these calls. we get an average of 20 calls a day from telemarketers at the shop. there is now software that they can use to mask their phone number to your local area code. and we keep getting 4 calls a day from some type of automatic dialer that gives a series of beeps when you answer the phone. it is not a fax machine. phone company can do nothing to stop it. great when you scramble out from under a car to grab the phone and its a nonsense call. with the shop and 24 hr towing, we cannot Not answer the phone.
 
Best ploy I've found is if I don't recognize the caller or number, I answer the phone in Japanese and talk in Japanese. It drives them berzerk, and you usually never hear from them again.

I'm not that fluent in Japanese, but I know enough of the language to harass scammers and telemarketers, etc. It's a language nobody recognizes. I actually had a guy ask me in English if I spoke Spanish, once.

I also once heard some guy talking to his supervisor in the background about what the heck kind of lingo he'd run into. Then the supervisor came on the phone and I talked to him in Japanese. He finally hung up. It's a hoot.

Only thing is, it's safer to say "konnichi wa" (good day) for "goodbye" instead of "sayonara", 'cause sayonara could be recognized from music, movies, etc.
 
Glenn
Look into a phone system that refers your valued customers to an extension no. example, for road service push ext 01. I don't think auto dialers can nagotiate that feature on your phone.
 
I do have the advantage of having a unique name- in the true sense of the word- I'm the only one in the world. So not many mistaken identities here.

I'm also a lawyer, so have been able to learn "rude" over the years, when it is needed. Still try to be nice to people, but can turn color when needed.
 
They scam my mother for a long time. I did not know it was going on. For she was given money all the time to the Fraternal order of police! Which I knew was a scam for I was a member of the FOP for years. We do not ask for money like this. Another one is for the Sheriffs dept. That to is a scam.
Problem is they prey on older folks like my mom and it is sad. When we tracked them down. They move out! They us to be called boiler rooms.
 
You don't have to call the State Atty Gen.
Just Google and it will walk you through a complaint form. I'm in the process of that now, and in my case a certain business/ businesses are shut down till further notice.
 
I've had an "unlisted" and "unpublished" number for years so I get very few unsolicited calls.

I answer all calls and if it's someone begging for money or trying to sell something I set the phone down quietly and go about my business. After a few minutes I pick up the phone and they've hung and I then do the same.
 
Maybe just a little off topic, but next time you get a call from some "police" organization or "fraternal order of police" (or whatever they call themselves) ask them two questions:
1. Ask the telemarketer of he/she is a police officer. I'll clue you in right now, they are not.
2. Next question. Ask them what percentage of the money they receive actually goes to the policemen. I'll clue you in here again. Very, very little actually goes to the police. Matter of fact, probably less than 5% of what you give them goes to the police department. The rest of it fills their pocket. Usually the telemarketer won't tell you what percent they give to the cops and they will sidestep that question all together.
And if you think the little sticker that they send you to apply to your bumper will actually stop a cop from giving you a ticket, think again.

BTW, I have a niece who is a state trooper and she will tell you that these organizations are legal scam artists.
 
copy and paste this -- the rasio folks lagh to much, but you can get the funny part of it.


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5866042/halo_reach_top_10_kills_01_26_11/


In Iowa 2% of the donation MUST go to the police, firmen, or whatever they are trying to milk you for. Once you give, from ther eon out, you probably can recognise their voices as you will hear from them, more than your own childeren.

I know a guy that did this, and he said don't give a red cent to them.

Google the big charities, and see what their CEO's make from your donations. The Salvation Army is around thirteen thousand, the rest are over the top of the clouds.

I joined the Red Cross, and then found out what the big girls wages was. She did coment she Loved her job however, and around $650,000.00 I am so glad she wants me to give more to help out those in need.
 
"I am sick of this schitt"

So, take the checkbook away from the wife. That's apparently what started the whole problem!

Better yet, take out the "landline" so no one else in the household is tempted to fall prey to scammers!

They could NOT exist without DUMB, gullible people who listen to (and fall for) their crap!

When folks wise up a bit they will fade away!
 
Taking out the land line is a great idea, but the wife wants to keep it for emergencys......Who the Fook cares. Land lines arent needed.
 
Saw a piece about scams on the news awhile back . They said there is no Law enforcment agency that will call on the phone asking for money .
 
I just have fun messing with the folks that call for cop donations. I say " Those MF's destroyed my meth lab. I hope all those SB's die" and hang up. (no, I don't cook meth, I just like to mess with them. They aren't cops anyway, just minimum wage telemarketers. Pete
 
I asked our police chief about this a few years ago, and he said that he wouldn't give to them. He also said that they get a chuckle out of all those window stickers. The only one that will do any good is "The Patrolman's Union"
 
Sorry, those dudes that called me, (and I made a buddy friend with one of them), stated that he certianly did not get min. wages, and with his bonuses he made real big money.
 
Our local Sheriffs Dept had a bonafide program. The problem I had with it was the fella that called had a voice that was right between Sam Elliot and James Earl Jones. One call from him and the missus would have two checks hanging from the doorknob. Course they would have a strapping young officer come pick it up...

Cost me a mint.

Aaron
 
Want to help out others? Give to your LOCAL food shelf or LOCAL Fire Dept. Most people know other people who work there.
 
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