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I didn't do this but it has crossed my mind... The fastest way to end robocalls forever: Sign up every damn congressional seat's phone number to ever scammy he
by rhacker 8y ago
I didn't do this but it has crossed my mind... The fastest way to end robocalls forever:
Sign up every damn congressional seat's phone number to ever scammy health insurance, hotel timeshare and PC help desk website's contact me form.
- p1esk 8y agoDo you have a list of their personal cell phone numbers?
- rhacker 8y agoUnfortunately no.
- p1esk 8y agoWell, then I guess it’s not “the fastest way to end robocalls forever“, is it?
- kirubakaran 8y agoWould you accept "second fastest way to end robocalls forever... maybe..."? ;)
- philwelch 8y agoWe briefly had Lindsay Graham's?
- x0x0 8y agoI assume you're aware, but it's known that companies give white-glove treatment to all congresspeople and their family and their friends. From robocalls to health insurance to the credit reporting agencies to comcast, these folks encounter none of the problems regular folks hit.
- DailyHN 8y agoDo you have any examples?
- rhacker 8y agoNot true: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/11/25/congress-make-take-new-steps-stop-robocall-scammers/8Ca0oLNAbHOooDoQo6soII/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/11/25/congress-mak... > "The problems have frustrated Markey as they have worsened over the years. He’s been known to pick up spam calls to his office, just to see what he can find out about who placed them."
- learc83 8y agoThe majority of these robocalls companies are fly by night operations engaging in illegal sales tactics. They aren't going out of their way to avoid members of congress. Even if they wanted to, it's not like there is a list of personal phone numbers of important people to avoid calling. >From robocalls to health insurance to the credit reporting agencies to comcast, these folks encounter none of the problems regular folks hit. Sure some companies go out of their way to cater to them, and most of them (ab)use their position to make some problems go away. But most of the time people don't even know who they are. There are 435 members of the House of Representatives, and sizeable fraction changes every 2 years. The majority of them aren't individually important enough to warrant that kind of extreme deference from every company.
- calgoo 8y agoI think John Oliver did something like this with the FCC representatives, robocalling them every few minutes[1]. [1] https://www.newsweek.com/robocall-john-oliver-last-week-tonight-fcc-federal-communications-commission-1358005 https://www.newsweek.com/robocall-john-oliver-last-week-toni...
- briankelly 8y agoI've been getting spam emails from MidwayUSA, a online gun retailer, despite that I never visited their website, or anything related to guns, and their unsubscribe process is completely non-functional. I was forwarding their emails to the FTC spam address, but eventually took the liberty to create a midway account for them and subscribing to their "eblast lists" (their own words). So far it hasn't accomplished anything.