Stop Telemarketers From Calling You - Using the World's Quickest and Easiest Method

By Robert Worstell

While there are many, many methods out there to get and keep telemarketers from calling you, I recently hit on a very simple and very effective method for getting them to stop.

It's simple:

Treat your phone like your email - don't consider that anyone has a right to call you that you don't know. But don't just hang up. They'll keep calling back (this is due to the computer programs they use, which tell them any answered phone is a prospective "sale".)

Once they've asked for someone ("May I speak to _____?"), and you're sure that caller is no one you know (this takes a couple of seconds, max), just say, "No," and then hang up.

This has cut my residual telemarketers down to almost nothing. Occasionally, I get some calls when my name has been sold to a new company, but these are getting fewer and fewer.

Seriously.

Why does this work? Because:

They got a live person.

That person legally refused their offer.

Their machines are set to dial back any no-answer indefinitely. So, wait until you get a live person on the other end. You're probably going to have to say something so the machine knows they have a live person. And once you get a human on the line, then say "No." This also messes with that calling program, which then puts you down very efficiently as a "dud" number. And shares its data with the main database so they probably won't try to sell your "dud" name and number to the next guy.

Just like your email - don't know the person, just hit delete. Don't open anything up you don't know where it came from.

Same with your phone. Look, phones used to be private, respected. Then came telemarketers, who took advantage of the "manners" people were brought up with.

I've got news for them, here's the new manners: Say "No," and hang up.

(Note that if you have Caller ID and get an open line - you can report this to the FCC to get them fined. Do a reverse look up using one of the online services to find that line's owner. Repeat offenses make it possible for you to take them to small claims court and possibly get paid for a judgment against them.) However, if you report every single instance, this starts stacking up a federal case against them.

And since often one call center is calling for a dozen or twenty different organizations - and using the same outgoing phone number - shutting that phone number down will put them into some serious expense getting another one.

While this won't shut down the telemarketers, it will get your phone back to being private.

Just one word, "No," and an action - Click!

Try it out for yourself.

This article was extracted from a 12-lesson course in How to Stop Telemarketers' Internet Scams and is available at http://tinyurl.com/d6myej as a free public service. You may also sign up there for these delivered to your email inbox.

Dr. Robert C. Worstell is a prolific author and blogger, having published over 4 dozen books. His latest research into Internet Scams resulted in a new book, "Scammer Jammer" and is available in pre-release at Lulu.com in print or as a download.

Dr. Worstell may be contacted through his website for speaking engagements and interviews - http://robertworstell.com

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