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First Caller-ID Spoofers Punished

Posted by kdawson on from the what-do-not-call-means dept.

coondoggie plugs a NetworkWorld story that begins, "The first telemarketers charged with transmitting false Caller IDs ... to consumers were fined and barred from continuing their schemes by a New Jersey District Court judge.... [T]wo individuals and one corporate defendant have been barred from violating the agency's Telemarketing Sales Rule and its Do Not Call requirements ... They were also found liable for $530,000 in damages ... [T]he case was the first brought by the Commission alleging the transmission of phony caller ID information or none at all."

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  1. Re:Ban them from using phones by hansraj · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not only I totally agree with your "same yardstick" principle, I also propose following natural application of it: "any guy caught urinating in public should not be allowed to use his penis ever again."

  2. Re:why waste their time and money? by AntEater · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe some people register on DNC-lists because they know they're pushovers? I didn't think that was why I registered, but now that you mention it, that was probably the real reason.
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  3. Re:Absolutely right. Its just one more form of spa by peipas · · Score: 4, Funny

    and I HATE spam. The secret is a dash of paprika.
  4. Re:and if you rtfa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then

    Don't you mean life was Basic then?

  5. Dean Wurmer says... by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I understand this correctly, they may no longer violate the rule because they've been... barred from violating the rule.

    That's correct. They're now on double secret probation.

  6. Re:Marketing by knight24k · · Score: 3, Funny

    "You can not hang up on the customer. They must hang up."
    Ok, this just struck me as funny since my favorite thing to do with telemarketers is to get them talking and then quietly set the phone down and walk away. It doesn't cost me a dime, I have a cell phone for people that need to contact me and I know it hurts them way worse than simply hanging up. It wastes their time and forces them to either wait or hang up eventually. Of course if I was as quick witted as Tom Mabe http://www.tommabe.com/, I would have better and funnier ways of dealing with them.
  7. In later news... by PTBarnum · · Score: 2, Funny

    The judge later reversed his decision, after receiving phone calls from the president, the secretary of the UN, the pope, and Elvis. "It's amazing how similar all them sound", said the surprised judge.

  8. Re:I hope that this set precedent... by PReDiToR · · Score: 4, Funny

    Play the fools at their own game.

    Print one of these out and keep it by the phone:
    Anti-Telemarketing Script
    Anti-Telemarketing Script
    Anti-Telemarketing Script

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  9. Re:Absolutely right. Its just one more form of spa by lala · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only if you by 'a dash' mean alot and by 'paprika' you mean tequila

  10. Re:what about those 000-000-0000 nums? by kellyb9 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just tell them, you'll vote for them if they never call you again. That might work.

  11. Re:I hope that this set precedent... by LandDolphin · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a former Telemarketer, I love the EGBG script... (now that is)...

    The things Telemarketers hate most is wasting their time. What is probably more mean, is to pretend to be interested and ask ton's of questions about whatever they are selling. Go along and act like your going ot buy everything they have to sell and then right at the end say, "Nah, I changed my mind" and hang up...

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  12. Re:Jesus Christ by nstlgc · · Score: 2, Funny

    But still you despise yourself enough to post as AC :)

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  13. Re:Ban them from using phones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    a cork?

  14. Re:Just hang up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    dragging out the call instead of just hanging up, isn't that even more of a waste of your own time But that's a choice we all get to make based on what we may or may not find amusing at any given moment. The telemarketer (and the company who pays them), on the other hand, doesn't have the luxury of deciding when timewasting is funny. Timewasting always costs them money, 100% of the time. It's never funny for them, which makes it even more funny for us.

    Who's to say that spending five minutes leading a telemarketer on a merry chase isn't just as valid a use of time as ... oh say reading slashdot for those same five minutes?