Why does your phone continue to ring with calls you don’t want even though your phone number has been added to the “Do Not Call Registry?” Can you sue those callers and make them pay big bucks for contacting you?
Unfortunately, the “Do Not Call Registry” doesn’t restrict every type of Telemarketing Company from making unsolicited calls to you and you can’t sue those telemarketers who escape the “Do Not Call” rules that can and do call you. No matter how unwanted, irritating, and invasive to your time and privacy those calls to you may be.
What types of calls are not restricted by the “Do Not Call Registry?” Political, Charity, and consumer opinion organizations can call you. The telemarketing divisions of companies that you have open accounts with like your bank, insurance agency, phone, cable, internet providers, credit cards, and other companies you have accounts with may call you even though your phone number may be registered on the Do Not Call registry. You also may not be aware of this, but stores and other companies that you buy services or goods from can call you despite a listing on the Do Not Call registry for up to 18 months after you initiate a business transaction with them. Furthermore, these types of companies can call you for up to 3 months for simply making inquiries or filling out their company applications for more information, contest entries, or perhaps to open a credit account with them.
Some of the telemarketing calls you are receiving, as annoying as they may be, could actually be a result of your having given those companies the “Green Light” to call you at some point in time, although you may not have been fully aware you were doing so, and don’t recall having done so now. When you put your contact information on the back of raffle tickets or fill out a contest entry form in the grocery store for the chance to win something, know that you are also giving permission to the company sponsoring the raffle or contest to contact you and may even be also agreeing to let third parties and affiliates of those companies call you with sales pitches and offers too.
For telemarketing calls not restricted by the Do Not Call Registry regulations, you can request to be removed from their telemarketing call lists in writing, and you may also want to consider following that up with a call to the company headquarters as well. Most companies will comply with requests from consumers to be removed from telemarketing call lists, but note that it can take 30 or more days for them to update their records so that you stop receiving calls from them. One further note here is that you may have to send letters to several partnered companies in order to be removed from all of their joint telemarketing lists, otherwise, you may still receive unwanted calls related to the first company you requested not to call you anymore.
Because of the Do Not Call Registry, our phones have become much quieter, but not completely silenced. Learn how to silence more telemarketing calls and the ones you will have to leave to your answering machine to pick up and you can hit the “delete” button on later. Should you ever need to find the owner of a phone number, whether a telemarketer, cell, or landline, you can check out this
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