RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 01/27/18 > How do you handle telemarketers? Here is how I do it …
I can just imagine the pleasure you get from leading them on like that, so funny!
I did a post when I first started on steemit about being scammed by so called telemarketing 'companies'
What was happening here is that crooked employees working for companies we have legal debit orders with, download payment lists with all our details ie ID number, bank account, address and so forth. Those lists actually were sold on the streets of Durban and the 'companies' then instituted debit orders under the guise of a telesale! When this happened to my son firstly and then me, I discovered just what a big business this was, the banks were not interested, merely reversed the debit. What upset me most, was the number of online complaints where people who dont check their accounts or dont get an sms notify, were scammed out of a couple of thousand rands over a period, sometimes as little as ZAR25 monthly. It's a long story but I was in touch with radio & TV consumer journalists and the tv station discovered their modus operandi. This went on for years and the banks have only recently tightened up their laws. So they get the opposite reaction from me, I just rudely cut the call these days, if they ask if I am Lizelle, I dont answer, just ask who I am speaking to & if its telesales, I hit the red button.
Sorry for the long story but that was something that used to get to me big time!
But I love your story mr Papper, so funny :):)
Thanks Lizelle, sounds like the government needs to crack down on the list sellers over their, and the people creating the false transaction. If they don't make the charge real noticeable, they could get away with it for years as people have gotten away from paying attention to details and reconciling statements and accounts.
I don't think the list sellers have stopped, as all that data is quite valuable, it was shocking seeing it on tv, the reporters had hidden cameras and worked undercover, as if they were ' buyers', these guys looked like drug dealers. So the government did eventually stop the practice of telesales being a legal mandate to institute a debit order but now we get the sms scams which some people must fall for otherwise these people would not be doing it! I've inherited money, won thousands in lotteries etc etc. I believe the list our details were on was illegally downloaded via my cellphone provider as I took out 2 contracts years ago and both those numbers get identical scam sms's. The inheritance ones always start with 'a relative who shares your surname blah blah blah' I often feel like sending them a message asking what my surname is as I've forgotten! After reading your & @cecicastor's responses I feel like doing it or calling the number they provide but then I'll be wasting my precious airtime! So I just block those numbers.
Have a great Sunday mr Papper & hope the family do as well, no more pet illnesses for a while at least!
Thanks Lizelle, you have a great day as well. I know our turtles should be fine for a while as they are both in hibernation right now. The rest of the pets are a different story though. I can pretty safely say that the lone surviving guinea pig named Squirt will probably live out his existence as an only guinea pig going forward.