Phone Calls
Complaint
JG
Country: United States
So far, this is the second call from this company within a week. The call tonight came in at 8:04 pm
Caller ID says "Lester, Inc." and the phone number is 606-833-0105. When my answering machine picked up, the caller hung up - same as last time.
I am on the Do Not call list.
Caller ID says "Lester, Inc." and the phone number is 606-833-0105. When my answering machine picked up, the caller hung up - same as last time.
I am on the Do Not call list.
Comments
ANY company is a crap company if they ignore and violate the National Do Not Call Registry rules, even if your mother or Mother Theresa is working for them! Pure and simple, no exceptions.
My mother had terminal cancer, and we were letting her do her hospice in our , and when things turned to the worst and I was deeply distressed, I got a series of Lester, Inc. calls. Same laughing in the background. Same things a lot of people have mentioned here. Absolutely NO regard for what kind of situation their illegal calls might be invading.
I am disabled and on a fixed income and got on the DNC registry because it costs nearly $11 per month extra to buy caller ID and call waiting caller ID together. Being on the DNC worked, for a time before some morons found a way around the laws laid down by the DNC. Thanks to the morons who run companies with questionable business practices like Lester, Inc. and many others, these calls will not stop!
There are vultures circling around the mortgage industry who make automated calls asking for you to leave them a message so then they can call you back, which they know is a low life way to try to make money without lifting a finger and not giving a crap how much of a hassle they cause for others...at least until they get caught or the shoe ends up on the other foot.
Hey Dana, heaven forbid that a Lester, Inc. call beeps in while you are talking to the 911 operator who is instructing you what to do while a loved one lays dying.
Just because your mother works for them means nothing. Did you ever think she's making it up about what a good place to work is, simply so she doesn't have to be embarrassed about what she's doing and can't afford to go find work elsewhere?
I doubt it if any person of conscience would continue to defend a company pulling the kind of stunts that Lester, Inc., pulls!
Unfortunately, there isn't any real enforcement of the DNC Registry going on because sending our children to die while trying to steal another country's resources takes precedence. And of course, let's not forget the lobbyists for these telemarketers spend lots and lots of bucks to 'persuade' our leaders to ignore the loopholes they've found.
Some states--not many, but a few--have taken steps to make sure that automated calls, autodialers, prerecorded sales, etc., are completely illegal for telemarketers to use. It SHOULD be illegal in all 50 states! After all, it's MY telephone line, for MY use and MY benefit, not anyone else's. Without an invitation, these telmarketers should have to pay a hefty fine to the government to go toward more enforcement, plus they should have to pay a fine of equal amount directly to the person whose name appears on the phone bill.
Let your state and federal representatives know that you want this to happen. I won't be holding my breath for anything to happen soon, but one thing is for sure, if people do not respond and do nothing at all, nothing at all will happen to change this situation.
There comes a time when we all have to be accountable for our actions. Since your mother is large part & parcel of the problem, I hope she's one of those hit the hardest in fines for invading our lives uninvited when the solution comes around to put companies like Lester, Inc. out of business PERMANENTLY and give us back the ability to answer our phones without cringing about who might be on the other line or have to pay over $120 per year extra on our phone bills to keep track of which companies are choosing to invade our privacy in violation of the rules put down by the DNC Registry like Lester, Inc. does.
What do you think? That a bunch of unrelated people who have better things to do with their time have come to this forum over the past year just to pick on your mother and Lester, Inc.? Wake up little girl! Just because mommy has a seemingly fancy job title doesn't change what she is--a leech on society.
I wouldn't be so harsh if she was just some idiot taking a minimum wage job to call people. Nope. Your mother is Sr. VP, so she's a policy maker, and those policies are OFFENSIVE.
Anyone looking to know where Lester, Inc. advertises, check this out:
http://www.audiencedevelopment.com/2006/lester+inc
This info is being given so anyone bothered by Lester, Inc's calls can contact this and other websites where they go trolling for work. That way, the people looking to hire such a company can know in advance that sooner or later (probably sooner) Lester, Inc. is going to have all those loopholes closed and will file bankruptcy because of all the fines levied on them, so anyone looking for that kind of company should really look elsewhere!
Perhaps Dana shoulda stayed out of this? LOL
You might want to get your mom to cash in your inheritance now, at something like ten cents on the dollar, because once she's busted for ignoring the DNC registry's rules, over and over and over again, the fines she's going to be hit with won't even leave her enough for a cardboard box when she dies. IMO, an appropriate place to end up!
Lester is definately breaking the law as we are registered with the DNC Registry.
Thank you for this website as these calls have no reached the point of frightening my family and I will simply not allow that to continue.