Anyone else getting mortgage calls from India?

[graywarrior]

10 friggin' times a goddamn day. And I don't own a house!

[ixion]

1. annoying, ain't it?

:grr:

[Ian David]

2. Take advantage of the ONLY thing Bush has done (mostly) right...

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE
NATIONAL DO NOT CALL REGISTRY
The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home. Most telemarketers should not call your number once it has been on the registry for 31 days. If they do, you can file a complaint at this Website. You can register your home or mobile phone for free. Your registration will be effective for five years.

https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

I've only been bothered by two companies: DirecTV and MCI Worldcom.

I filed complaints about both of them, and both companies were eventually convicted and fined billions of dollars.

[FloridaPat]

8. I use to get 10 a week until I registered with this. It really works.

[AlCzervik]

3. are they trying to get you to get a mortgage from them?

[graywarrior]

4. They are cold calling to find out if you want a mortgage.

Mr. Gray totally fucks with their heads. He keepts them on the phone talking about George Bush. I don't have the patience for it.

[la la]

5. Mr La La

does the same thing as Mr Gray! It drives me crazy!

Ms La La hangs up on them.

I am thinking up some vulgar obnoxious thing to say to them--some phrase using the word fuck over and over again! Any suggestions?

[Ecumenist]

6. Are you serious?

FROM INDIA?? How much lower can this country afford to go? It's damn time to get rid of this idiot ASAP!!

[Richard D]

7. You'll have to search for it . . . .

. . . but there is a device that makes a signal when you answer the phone that tells the computer-dialing machine calling you that it's a non-existent number. The computer than tags it as a bad number.

[Ian David]

10. The Telezapper works fairly well.

You can also record the telezapper sound on your outgoing voicemail message.

[caligirl]

9. Thats what those calls were? We have the cure here for that:

my ever impressive better half decided to SCREAM into the mouth peice on one of them. Apparently its a very bad CULTURAL THING to be YELLED at in the non confrontational society of India. He used a few expletives too. No more calls from India.

[graywarrior]

11. Mr. Gray asks them how the weather is out there, pretending to

assume they're from California. They get confused over that. Then he asks them where they're calling from. By law, they're supposed to tell you. So when they say India, they become flies in the web. It gets worse as it goes on. He keeps them on the line for 10 minutes, asking them all about their families, what school they went to, what is their opinion of George Bush, on and on and on. Poor bastids.

I'd do something about it, but I'm moving in a few weeks to NH so I'll worry about it when I get there.